It’s only just dawned on me this week that not only are we coming to the end of the year 2019 but it is also the end of the decade, which got me thinking about my life over the last 10 years. I entered the 10’s as a 17 year old girl who thought she knew it all. In reality I was clueless, young and naïve if I’m being honest. As I enter 2020 I have become a wife and a mother, but more importantly I have became a woman with life experience – the lessons I’ve learnt in the 10’s are immeasurable and have made me who I am today, for which I am grateful.
On this day, New Year’s Eve, 10 years ago I got really drunk at a local party (shocking and so out of character I know) and Damon happened to be playing in his band at that party. We weren’t an item by this point but we had become ‘friends’ over the previous few months. Anyway, whilst he was playing he stopped singing mid song to check I was ok as I resembled Bambi on ice on the dance floor!! That night he realised that he wanted to be with me (because he realised how much he cared about me by the way, not because of the Bambi look, he still isn’t in to that haha). We didn’t actually get together officially until March 2010 as I took a little longer to realise we were meant to be (I told you I was clueless), but hey we got there in the end.
I must admit, things changed and moved on pretty quickly from that moment on wards, as by New Year’s Eve the following year I was the most sober person in the room -I was 8 months pregnant with our first child, Joey. Since then we went on to have two more beautiful sons, Dayton and Kylo – bringing those boys in to the world with my soulmate are three of my proudest moments, nothing will ever top that.
Now, I’m not going to go into detail about everything that’s happened over the last ten years otherwise it would take another ten years to finish writing it all. The point I’d like to make is that although so much has changed in the last decade, somethings are just meant to be. I’m talking about my relationship and family, not the fact I still resemble Bambi on ice at parties BTW!
So, in a nutshell, in the 10’s I became a mother, I married my soulmate, seen our parents become grandparents, we bought a house, I completed a foundation and an honours degree, I’ve made some friends for life, I’ve watched some of my friends get married, buy houses and become parents themselves, I witnessed my sister become a first time mother and I became an auntie to my lovely little nephew and the boys first little cousin. I’ve enjoyed making so many memories with all my favourite people. I feel so lucky and blessed to have such fantastic people in my life.
If I’ve learnt anything over the last 10 years it is that life doesn’t always go to plan, but it does have a way of working out. Obviously, not every second of the last ten years has been amazing – life throws us shit times too, we make mistakes, we find out who our friends are, we have fall outs, we lose loved ones along the way but as I said at the beginning of this post we learn lessons and make memories to become who we are – that’s how life works, we just have to make sure the good outweighs the bad.
So I’m going into the 2020’s with a positive mind-set, no grudges and nothing but love and forgiveness in my heart – life is too short to do anything but!
I would like to wish every single one of you a Happy New Year, whether you’re my family, my friend, my acquaintance or whoever else you may be – I wish you all nothing but health and happiness for the future!
Let’s see what the next 10 years brings… we have so much to look forward to and I can’t wait 😀
Mrs McRea 