Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Savour


Happy New Year and all best wishes for a wonderful 2014!

2014 is a massive year for us, which I'm looking forward to with a mix of trepidation, terror ('school run' - do just the words make anyone else shiver in dread?) excitement and joy.
This year my first born, my baby-boy, my darling, ever-active Sprocket starts primary school.
In roughly four months we welcome our third (and last) baby into the word, a little girl we've already nicknamed Littlest.
This year we're deciding where in Australia to apply for my Beloved to do his medical internship. While our first preference is for the Sunshine Coast near my Beloved's kin, we're also going to be putting down places like Townsville, Rockhampton, Cairns, Mackay, Geelong, Gold Coast, Melbourne. We probably won't know for sure whereabouts we've been matched until… December, a few weeks before my Beloved starts work.
Which leads me to… in ten shorts months, all going well, my Beloved will be a Doctor! The medical sort my dad calls 'quacks'.  These long (and somewhat challenging, if amazing) four years will draw to a close and we'll move on to the next step in our lives. Goodbye Student-hood! (Although My Beloved is already lining up the Masters he wants to start and depending on what specialty he decides on he'll have a further four to nine years of study while working, raking out thousands to sit exams, some of which have a fail rate of up to thirty percent.)
To celebrate my Beloved becoming a Doctor we're travelling to the UK for Christmas and New Year 2014 with my Beloved's folk. Come November next year we'll be packing up our house to sell, packing to hopefully move two states away to the tropics, and also packing for a white Christmas. With three kids.
Deep breath. Very deep breath.
It is going to be fantastic. And amazing and we are all kinds of blessed and grateful. But… deep breath.

Over at Maxabella Loves the wonderful Bron is asking what 'word' people are focusing on for 2014.
And I didn't have to think hard to realise what word I'll be focusing on.
Savour. 
I want to savour every moment of 2014. Appreciate it. Revel in it. Drink it in.
Because time is racing by so quickly and these precious days of my kids childhoods are just disappearing.
This is the last time I'll feel a growing baby kick-boxing within me. That I'll put my hands to my tummy and feel new life within, with all it's wonder and promise. This is the last year that I'll exult in my own newborn, spend hours admiring the ever changing expressions, the tiny curling toes and little grasping fingers as they slowly reveal who they are.
I suspect this year is one of the last that my Sprocket will reach for my hand while we're walking, will climb into my lap when he's nervous, will come to me to kiss it better and for a cuddle for no reason at all.
This year I intend to stop and let my heart sing as my kids run and play together on the shore, carefree and light as birds.
This year I'll savour their amazing, emphatic stories, wallow in the giggles as they tell me of tiny, invisible flying sharks that have hidden their toys and the ubiquitous Super-Villain who moves the bricks, spills the milk and generally wreaks havoc and mayhem.
My kids will be small for such few short years and these years will never come back. I want to savour every moment. Even the ones that have me pulling my hair out and asking the sky various aggrieved, rhetorical questions.
Savour.



15 comments:

  1. Love your choice of word. It sums up so much. Sounds like 2014 will be wonderful year for your family, Cheers, Tanya

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    1. Thank you for stopping by! This year I definitely want to stop and smell the roses! It is going to be a whirlwind of a year...

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  2. What an amazing you have coming your way - love that you are choosing to slow down and savour it as it comes - with the awareness that it is fleeting - moments that cannot be reclaimed later. Enjoy and savour xx

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  3. Savor is a good word to have, especially at this time in your life. My word, aware, is similar. We need to appreciate what we have.

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  4. Savour, such a lovely word to keep in mind with all your family commitments in the new year. May 2014 be your year xx

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  5. I love your word, I hope 2014 is a wonderful year for you and you savour every precious memory x

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  6. What a year! Great word. Sounds like there will be many beautiful moments for you to savour in 2014 xx

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  7. Such a great word. My eldest is starting school this year and I want to savour that adventure with her too. You certainly have a big year ahead and I really hope you get to savour it.

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    1. Starting school is such a massive thing. I'm so excited for my eldest - but so scared and nostalgic and a million other things as well! Here's hoping it goes well for our little-big ones! Thanks for dropping by!

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  8. Wow that is a massive year you have ahead, but an exciting one all the same. Good luck, I'm sure it will be a blast.

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  9. Your 'savour' is a little like my 'pause' only meatier, I think. I know it's strange, but I'll bet you savour these final months of the long slog of study more than you think. I hope it all goes well. Especially the school thing! Onwards! x

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  10. great word! may the year be savory. :-)

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