happy new year!!

Do you think its ok to say Happy New Year on the 11th of January? After the last 3 weeks of craziness most of us are only just getting back to some reality of school runs, work and proper planning for the year ahead now.
​Personally Christmas and Hogmanay are exhausting, at a time of year when we should be winding down, we are winding up. We push ourselves to extremes, parties, drinking, feasting, staying up late, shopping for presents pre-Christmas, shopping for bargains post- Christmas. Not that its all bad, most is served with love, happiness and good will but what does it do to us as humans?
The whole point of winter is  to slow down with nature, longer nights to rest. Shorter colder days allowing us to gather food stores and return to den. Nurture ourselves through the darkness. Is all of this a matter of history?
Now our lives barely change season to season. we work, eat, sleep to the same schedule all year round. Except at Christmas and New Year when we all go crazy!  So by January 3rd we may all be back doing normal things but by no means are  we ready. We still need time to rest and time to nurture. When do you do this?
For me it was last week although back to normality, its a go slow format of late rise (as late as you can be with a school run) and early to bed. Taking time to enjoy gifts received by reading books and listening to music. Slow catch up with friends and family sharing the highs and lows of our festive experiences.
However today was the day, my official back to normality so this is when my New Year is beginning and I wish to share it with you.
​Happy New Year wishing you all the very best for 2018, the beginning of a brand new adventure.