High Five!

I am not here. No really, I’m not. I’m up to my eyeballs in finishing my BIG ASSIGNMENT (which has taken on capital letters in my mind and thus shall appear so) and in trying very hard not to puke. But you know, all work and gagging and no play makes Josie a something something so I’m stealing half an hour to respond to the first of two lovely memes I’ve been given this week.

Blogging buddy Mum’s The Boss tagged me in a High 5 thingy where I am required to tell you about my 5 best bits of 2009.

Ok. Here we go. You ready? In no particular order…

1. The arrival of beautiful Isabell

In January this year, my bestest friend gave birth to her beautiful girl Izzy, a sister to Lucy, and the smiliest most lovely little girl you could ever hope to meet, or (if you’re Kai) gaze longily at while trying to force feed grapes. She is gorgeous and I love her.

2. Starting this blog!

Oh yes! Back in May this year I began Sleep is For the Weak with this hesitant post, little knowing that seven months later said blog would have become one of the highlights of my year, encourage me to start writing (and then not stop), introduced me to a whole host of fascinating and wonderfully unique people who I genuinely couldn’t imagine life without, and led to some fantastic new opportunities.

3. Kai learning to crawl, then stand, then cruise and then OH MY GOODNESS he’s walking!!!

So basically everything he’s done this year. He is ace. The whole ‘this time last year I had a little baby and now I have this great big toddler’ still amazes me. Nature is miraculous and so is he. I could fill a top five just with things he’d done: his face on holiday at the farm we visited, or riding the diggers at Trentham Gardens, or his first birthday, or this Christmas even. And let’s not forget the finally learning how to sleep bit, which, let’s face it, pretty much tops everything else that happened, with knobs on…

4. The whole LOST ARG spectacle.

A viral online Artificial Reality Game based on the TV show Lost which I somehow ended up  reporting on with all the twists and turns of the game as it unfolded, authoring the blog, that in the few short weeks it ran, attracted over 30,000 hits. It turned out not to be an ‘official’ ARG and met a sadly premature end, but was still unbelievable fun. Proper geek stuff I’m sure you’ll think. But it was fab. Really really fab.

5. The times when life stopped. Just for a moment.

And there were lots of them. The times, perhaps, when I was curled up with my head on Ant’s lap. Or when Kai was still for a moment with his hands tight around my neck. Or a walk home through through the autumn sunshine when the low sun set the world on fire. Or watching the frost sparkle in the air at Christmas like fairy dust. Or this moment, or this one. They aren’t fancy, they aren’t dramatic, but these times are the highlights of my year over and over, and the things that sustain me through the inevitable rough patches that the year has brought.

In fact, next year I’d be quite happy with just more of number 5. However, I have a feeling the New Year has some surprises in store for us. It always does, after all, and life never stops still for long.

So what were your five best bits?

I’m tagging:

Notes from Lapland

Babies that Brunch

Noble Savage

Dad Who Writes

Mummy Mania

xx

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