Here I Am

In my last week of being 20 years old, I've decided to take some time to reflect on the past year and the whirlwind it has been to remind myself of all the great times I have had and also the not so great times (because those are important too).  Hope you enjoy rewinding 365 days and reminiscing with me... Lets start in chronological order: 30.04.2018 - I saw real life pandas on my birthday trip to Edinburgh, one of my ultimate dreams! 09.05.2018 - We viewed the apartment which we now call 'ours' 16.06.2018 - Cute family day with Ben’s family in Greenwich 04.07.2018 - One of my work besties moved to another company 31.07.2018 - I moved out of my family home, into our own apartment! 03.08.2018 - We brought Teddy to move into the apartment from my Mum’s house 26.08.2018 - Celebrated our 1 year anniversary 22.09.2018 - Spent a lovely day in London with Mum for her birthday 24.09.2018 - Teddy discovered his fear of water, after jumping in ...

It's February, almost March...where have the past 2 months gone already? When you're told 'don't wish your life away' growing up you just shrug it off as another comment made by yet another adult. It's only when you are 'yet another adult' that you realise you in fact, have wished your life away and now that you have a 9-5 job, working 5 days of every week and a fair amount of responsibilities, you're no longer wishing your life away and instead, are wishing each day would be 24 hours longer. It's a shame that isn't the way the world works, right? I started 2019 thinking this would be 'my year' along with the rest of us (how cliché) and I still do believe it could be. It's all in your mind - if you believe you can do it, you really can. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow but eventually you will achieve what you want to. I've had set backs already this year (just a month and a half in) and thought my world was going to ...