And there was me thinking ‘I didn’t really do much this year!’ 🙈 So many big life events happened, like buying and doing up a home, arranging a wedding, growing a human and learning to drive *on top of* creating and editing 34 YouTube videos, working with countless companies I adore and raising a WONDERFUL child (add a sprinkle of depression and a big dollop of illness 😅) ... I mean, sometimes we need to reflect and give ourselves bit of bloody credit! Was literally beating myself up recently because I didn’t visit friends as often as I wanted to, I didn’t finish writing a fourth book, I didn’t read enough, blah blah blah. God woman there are only so many hours in the day! 2022 was probably one of the hardest, most stressful years of my life ... also one of the ones filled with the most joyful memories, certainly one of the years I’ll look back on fondly when I’m old. I know this is a ‘look at my year!’ summary trend and you’re meant to pluck the ‘big’ moments but it’s hard to scroll thousands of photos and decide on pics to ‘sum up’ your month when it’s often the ‘little’ moments that stand out in your memory. Of course we don’t all take photos of the two hours a day we spend cleaning and cooking or the countless hours spent doing work e-mails and playing with our children ... or the phone calls with family or walks in nature, appreciating the little things. But. Like. I DO lol I take pics of the most MUNDANE shit and it often seems irrelevant to share with strangers online but THAT stuff is what I will remember most. I think I forgot that so many big things happened in the past 12 months as I was too busy living and enjoying life to be measuring myself in that way we’re taught to measure ourselves. But all that stuff I just mentioned ... THAT is the journey! That stuff IS life. The milestones come and go, but what really matters is who you spend your millions of minutes with and how happy they make you and how happy you make them ... what matters is that you lay down at night relatively at peace, feeling accomplished, knowing you have something (or someone, or both!) to wake up for ❤️ And if you don’t have that yet ~ know that something or someone IS out there.