Hello lovely strangers!
Okay. It's almost a year since I was here..that's crazy. A lot has happened; my youngest sister is having a baby - she's due in a couple of weeks, I've been promoted again and another of my sisters has been dagnosed with the heart condition my mum died from. It's been up and then really, really down.
My head has been everywhere except where it should be. But something happened last week.
My dad is doing his bathroom up and they'd had to do some stuff in the attic; Jill phoned me and told me they'd found a bag full of my mum's stuff that my dad had kept and thought was gone.
I went round and could never have imagined how it made me feel. As I went through old photos and bits of her too-short life I felt close to her in a way I never thought I would - it was like discovering she was a real person. A real human being with friends, a job, a national insurance number and dodgy 80s dresses. There was even my baby book, her wedding ring and our little christening dress.
And there was her wedding dress. It's beautiful. And a size 14.
As soon as I saw it and held it I knew that I would wear it on my wedding day. No doubt in my mind.
So the target is 2 years to get from a size 22 to a small 14. Jill's promised me any wedding shoes I want if I can do it...I think she should start saving
Hope everyone is great and on track. I wish I'd come back earlier.
aims xxxxx