This is me.

This is me.  

• I turn 40 on Monday.
• I 'm 5-10kg overweight.
• I have sparkly green eyes and a big smile that's never too far away, my e-mail address has been smilymel@... forever.
• I have a seven and a half year old daughter and a nine year old son.
• I have a four month old puppy.
• I have a geriatric 3 year old gerbil.
• I am a teacher working 3 days a week in a caring but very busy school.  I love my job.
• I am a Cub Leader with 28 happy Cubs.
• I get involved with projects at The Scout Association at UK level and am a Training Adviser in the County.
• I have a lovely husband with a very busy job as a Dr in our local hospital.
• I love the outdoors, walking, scrambling, waterfalls, woodlands, castles etc.
• I enjoy learning about history.
• I love crafting and making things and being creative.
• I love writing.  I'm a member of our local Writing Circle and have a burning ambition to finish editing one of the books I'm writing and actually send it off to a publisher.
• I enjoy cooking (and eating).
• I'm not as fit as I should be.
• I've had Vasculitis which is in remission but I'm still on a lovely cocktail of drugs every day to keep it that way.
• I have friends who I love and who make me feel good.  I don't see any of them nearly as often as I would like to.
• I have a loving mum and dad, two lovely sisters and their families, and a set of lovely in-laws.  
• I'm generally optimistic and happy, but sometimes find that I'm unravelling a bit and am swamped by trying to do too much in too little time and end up feeling that I'm not actually achieving anything.  Then I get grouchy and grumpy and give the people I love a hard time.  Then I give myself a really hard time.

This is me.

I've not used this blog all that much over the last couple of years, but have decided to make it a priority this year.  I'll blog often to log my thoughts, log the activities I do, and give a creative outlet.  I'm going to show myself just how much I can get done in a busy year.