This year started off pretty badly. Wayne had just had to wind up his business and was officially unemployed. I was about to go back to work full time, absolutely dreading it but knowing we needed the money or we could end up losing the house. The lowest point was probably one bleak January morning when bailiffs came knocking at the door at 7am to repossess Wayne's plumbing van...he had to unload the entire contents, all his tools, into the kitchen while 2 big, burly men watched his every move. Awful, awful times. The only good things were of course Jamie, and bump no.2 who was about 20 weeks old in my tummy.
Things continued to be pretty tough, Wayne struggled to find any work but eventually was forced to resort to a minimum wage job in a plant nursery. My gran was very ill and we almost lost her in March, but she is a tough cookie and hung on. I was hating every minute of being at work, counting down the minutes til I could leave, and even considered starting maternity leave early to get away from it.
But then one amazing night in May, our beautiful Daisy was born and since then things have just got better and better. She has been an angel from the start, Jamie adapted well to being a big brother, and life as a family of four felt so right. Then in September, Wayne got a new job and suddenly everything changed - I no longer needed to go back to work and could have the thing I'd always so badly wanted - to be a stay at home mum to my gorgeous babies. The icing on the cake was our engagement on my birthday in November.
And finally, a shout out to my gran, Edith, who is 95 years old and still fighting on. She's in a nursing home now and is very frail, but she is a total inspiration to me and I'm so proud of her.
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