{{1-1-14}} Fabulous Foxes...

Working on a little (late) Christmas pressie and trying a new pattern or two... bonus- these patterns require so many colour changes that I think I have finally got the method down first time!! ;)

The Weekly Cassie ♥ - Week 1

I thought I may as well start as I expect to go on and introduce those who don't know her to my gorgeous girl... this is Cassie and she is the reason there have been so many more smiles and moments of fun and laughter in my life in the last few months ♥♥♥

There are so many lovely moments with her (and I manage to photograph quite a few of them!!) so, to get the ball rolling with this first post, I have picked some favourites from the first week of the year...

{{1-1-14}} Seeing in the New Year with my beautiful girl for the first time :) We also had my Aunty staying with us... she and my Mum thought it may be the first time in many, many years that they have seen in the new year together :)

{{4-1-14}}Being her usual daft-as-a-brush self... this sort of thing is why I have laughed more in the last few months since Cass came to live here than I have in years!! ;D

{{7-1-14}} Cass is an independent spirit- or just plain stubborn/awkward/lazy depending on exactly what she is upto at the time!! ;) - and often can't be bothered to come upstairs to see me in even if it does mean missing out on cuddles and scratches! Just before I took this pic she had come up stairs with my mum and jumped up on to the bed with me. But instead of settling straight down with me like normal, she then snuffled around in all my blankets and promptly jumped back off the bed and went back downstairs (sounding like a whole herd of elephants as usual!! Lol) and we figured she'd just decided she'd prefer *her* comfy chair in the living room after all... but no... she came back just a minute later, jumped straight back up and came to lie by me... she had only gone to get her piggy (a christmas pressy she is still slightly obsessed with)... and it made me feel ridiculously pleased that I was worth bothering to come back upstairs for straight away!! Lol Easily pleased, I guess, but I'd have missed that cuddle if she'd not come back!! ;)

{{Okay- so, having typed all that and now re-read it, it doesn't sound quite so good as it seemed at the time... but you'll have to indulge me- this is *my* Happy Jar after all!!}}

I'll hopefully be back soon with the next installment of Wk 1... and then I'll be all caught up with myself :)

The beginning...

So... a bit of background... 

I intended to do the Happy Jar Thing last year... but, by the time I had a jar I was feeling pretty rubbish healthwise and just wasn't feeling the whole happy vibe for a variety of reasons... so it never happened...

I did start noting down happy stuff later in the year in a note app on my phone but, honestly... that was just a bit dull!! ;)

I contemplated going down the jar route again this year but I know (if I am honest with myself!) that it won't work out... I'll run out of pre-cut pretty slips of paper, not be able to find a nice pen that works, lose the jar- yes, the piles of 'stuff' around here are sufficiently monstrous to devour a whole jar in one bite!! :/ - or maybe I'd just not be feeling up to getting the jar/pen/paper from wherever I'd left them (just in case you are not a friend of mine and have ended up here randomly and are thinking 'How lazy can she get?!'- I have significant physical disability and limited energy/mobility due to a chronic health condition) and think to myself I'd do it later/tomorrow, at which point I would no longer remember it (significant cognitive difficulties including memory problems thanks to the aforementioned condition, too!!)... so instead, I have decided to give a blog a try... I may still fail thanks to any or all of the above reasons/excuses but I'm hoping the fact that I am going to share the link with some friends will keep me a little more on track... we'll see!! ;)

I may post pictures at the time or come back and add them later as I do take a *lot* of pictures to help me remember the good stuff on the bad days when my memory deserts me even more completely than normal... but I am not going to make this any more complicated for myself than it has to be by saying there will always be prettily edited photo... and the posts may be long or only a few words if that is all I can manage... the important thing is to make some kind of record of the good times so I can look back on them to help me through the rest!! :) At the moment I'm hoping to post at least a few things for each week as, even (probably especially) in the bad weeks, it's important to look for those happy moments to keep you going... but if there are more than a few sometimes- well, the more the merrier!! :D

So, if after all that rambling you're still awake and wanting more, come back soon for my first entry into my 2014 Little Jar of Happy... :)

In the meantime, I'll leave you with one of my favourite pictures from last year... you'll be seeing this gorgeous girl a lot, I suspect!! :)