Buckley
Well-Known Member
Last Year:
https://forum.ibiza-spotlight.com/threads/hows-your-year-been-2018.78732/
I'll come back to mine and update this post when I get a chance, but it's always worked to give people most of December to contribute.
E2A:
I'll start at the most recent happening - I gave up drinking alcohol, completely, at the start of November, and started running on any days I don't have football. It's been life-transforming and I don't want to go back. Dealing with my 6 year old's Autism has become way easier, as has dealing my hyper-intelligent 4 year old, who has a sight condition called CSNB, I'm just significantly more capable. Pretty much all relationships in my life have benefited from my health kick - I don't want to become an evangelist, but I do recommend it.
My kids have been the story of my year, both are doing really well despite their challenges outside the norm. Both are now good skiiers, swimmers and runners. My eldest boy had the opening line in his school play the other week, introducing all the animals in the Antarctic section of the 'zoo', a proud moment when you consider we were told 4 years ago he would probably never speak, be toilet-trained or live independently. I am very aware that we are very lucky to be able to fund the help they've needed and continue to need. With this week's election looming, I find myself asking which party would have helped us if hadn't been able to help ourselves? The current state help was non-existent and appeared to actively act against our children's best interests.
The wife and I made it away together without the kids for the first in more than 5 years in late May, to a great wedding on Portugal, and having found a babysitter who can handle our kids and stay overnight, managed another 2 trips after that, to Ibiza (!) and Edinburgh. Getting that time together, away from our rather full on parenting duties is a FSM-send. We also managed family holidays to Nueva Andalucia and Tenerife, plus I played football in Portugal as usual in September.
A black spot on otherwise good year is the continuation of my Dad's Parkinson's. It's been a year of different drugs, different doses and different symptoms, but it is what it is and we are doing ok.
So...you?
https://forum.ibiza-spotlight.com/threads/hows-your-year-been-2018.78732/
I'll come back to mine and update this post when I get a chance, but it's always worked to give people most of December to contribute.
E2A:
I'll start at the most recent happening - I gave up drinking alcohol, completely, at the start of November, and started running on any days I don't have football. It's been life-transforming and I don't want to go back. Dealing with my 6 year old's Autism has become way easier, as has dealing my hyper-intelligent 4 year old, who has a sight condition called CSNB, I'm just significantly more capable. Pretty much all relationships in my life have benefited from my health kick - I don't want to become an evangelist, but I do recommend it.
My kids have been the story of my year, both are doing really well despite their challenges outside the norm. Both are now good skiiers, swimmers and runners. My eldest boy had the opening line in his school play the other week, introducing all the animals in the Antarctic section of the 'zoo', a proud moment when you consider we were told 4 years ago he would probably never speak, be toilet-trained or live independently. I am very aware that we are very lucky to be able to fund the help they've needed and continue to need. With this week's election looming, I find myself asking which party would have helped us if hadn't been able to help ourselves? The current state help was non-existent and appeared to actively act against our children's best interests.
The wife and I made it away together without the kids for the first in more than 5 years in late May, to a great wedding on Portugal, and having found a babysitter who can handle our kids and stay overnight, managed another 2 trips after that, to Ibiza (!) and Edinburgh. Getting that time together, away from our rather full on parenting duties is a FSM-send. We also managed family holidays to Nueva Andalucia and Tenerife, plus I played football in Portugal as usual in September.
A black spot on otherwise good year is the continuation of my Dad's Parkinson's. It's been a year of different drugs, different doses and different symptoms, but it is what it is and we are doing ok.
So...you?
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