So my annual reflection on the previously year.  Last year I only managed to say Nina and while she continues to dominate most aspects of my life I think I can come up with a few more things this time.

Firstly , I managed to get in one more book in before the end of 2011.  Gilead by Marilynne Robinson.   In the story an old minister is writing letters to his young son before his death.  He tells him a little bit about his life and his family.  However, as he writes the letters his godson comes back into his life.  His godson is a person he has always struggled with for various reasons and the letters begin to mostly be about his struggle to forgive him.  Essentially it becomes his struggle with grace which he realtes to previous struggles in his family.  As grace is something I  thought a lot about in 2011 (which I wrote about in another post) it seemed like an appropriate book to end the year with.  It was also filled with beautiful reflections on life, death, humanity, parenting and God.  My kindle lets me underline quotes I like and I underlined heaps but alas I do not have my kindle with me to share.

• So that makes 9 books read in 2011.  Not a great effort but okay given the circumstances
• I only had two full nights sleep the whole year.  Hoping for more this year but not off to a good start.
• We lived in Alice until November and I worked part time at the AMEP and did some tutoring work at a high school.
• We went to Melbourne for David and Andreeana´s wedding
• I was in the Vagina Monologues.
• I attempted being a Chegan but failed.
• We went to Byron for the Blues and Roots festival but more importantly for me to meet the gorgeous Sebas.
• We celebrated six years of marriage.
• I turned 29 and celebrated with Gem for the first time in 5 years.
• We went to Darwin for another wedding and visited Litchfield National Park
• I became a doula and attended two amazing birth´s as part of it.
• Nina turned one.
• We celebrated my grandmother´s 80th with a beautifulbeach holiday in Fingal Bay.
• I finished my prayer book.  I just printed it myself and gave it to family and friends and some retreat places.  So while nothing particuarly came of it, it was a lot of effort and I enjoyed the process.
• We moved to Peru.
• Was in bed before midnight on NYE for the second year in a row.

It was a BIG year.  Massive really as I look back over that list, which certainly doesn´t include everything.  But it was a great year.  I give thanks to God and his abundant grace as well as the abundant grace of all those who shared the year with me especially Martin and the wonderful people at Honeymoon Gap.