A tribute to my beautiful family and friends who tied the knot in 2011!

I will always say that 2011 is the year for weddings. Tim finally made an honest woman out of me, and I know of 5 other amazing women - family and friends (6 if you include Kate Middleton but we are neither family nor friends) who tied the knot in 2011. Now aside from my own wedding, I only went to 1 other wedding out of that 5 so this is not a post about how many dresses I needed to get to get me through, blah blah blah.

I think that for me, the extraordinary thing about having so many of my friends get married in the same year is that at some stage in OUR lives, we all thought that cupid was never going to knock on our door and give us the opportunity to be brides. A few years ago, I certainly thought that my own case was hopeless!

I am just so so so happy and proud as these 5 beautiful family/friends are all wonderful women. They have so much love to give and I would like to think that each one of us has married someone deserving of that love. It is just that cupid took a very long route to get to us.

To my family/friends who got married in 2011, Congratulations! I hope that our husbands will always count themselves lucky by snagging us!

To my family/friends who have been married for a while, WOW! Who knew that marriage could be so hard yet so much fun.

To my family/friends who are about to get married, Enjoy! Weddings are just the beginning and it is hard work. But if you marry your right one, it can be so much fun.

To my family/friends who are still waiting for cupid to strike, DO NOT lose hope. I never thought that it would happen to me and my amazing girlfriends and we can all attest to Good things come to those who wait!

Life with Crayons!

Today is Saturday, December 31, 2011. When I awake tomorrow it will be a new year. The start of a new year usually brings much excitement, much hope and much anticipation. It is that time for reflection, time for renewal, time time to put into effect what we have always thought of doing. Like most people, today I think of my New Years resolutions...I should be nicer to my husband, I should be better at keeping in touch with family and friends, I should be better at being a Godmother to my Godchildren have been the random ideas that have been floating through my mind. I hope that it wont be long until these shoulds truly become will. One thing I am adamant to do though is to start blogging again.

Most of you who had Friendster (say what?) would know that I blogged quite frequently when I was living in America. It was my form of release - to tell the world what I was thinking. Since I moved back home to Sydney, I have tried several times to put my thoughts down, but without success. Life just totally took over.

Today, I am creating Life with Crayons! Hopefully it will be my catalyst for once again sharing my thoughts, not only for myself, but hopefully one day, my children will be interested enough to know what their Mum was really like before they could judge for themselves (yikes!). I know that my memory will one day fail me (it is already starting to) so I hope that I will be able to rely on typed up words (and photos hopefully) to tell my stories!

Why Life with Crayons!? Simply because I have always loved crayons, colouring and writing with, and just seeing different shades of colour come together (I remember my prized possession when I was younger was a box of 104 Crayola Crayons). I also am of the idea that I am merely a colour, a character, a word in my life....that there is someone (I know Him as God) greater than me who is painting my picture, writing my play, creating my story. My job is to just be the best colour, best actor and best word that I can be!