hello 2016

i love the first day of the year. it's like you get to start fresh again, it's the time of year where you get to make plans for the year ahead and you are still hopeful that things will go according to your plan.

just like last year, we celebrated the first day of the year at the beach with the kids. we went to Balmoral beach like we did last year. after spending the entire day at Taronga Zoo yesterday, i was very tempted to just take it slow today and chill out at home but who am i kidding? there's no chilling out at home once you have kids. Jim wasn't too keen to go as he was exhausted from yesterday's outing but i really want to keep to tradition of spending the first day at the beach. so i decided to just go and i know the kids would love it. and as we got there, i was so glad we went. 

Charlotte  was too young to enjoy the sand and the water last year because she could barely sit up. but this year, she had a ball scooping sand and checking out sea shells. as for Gabriel, we loved pushing his bulldozer on the sand, jumping up and down in "muddy puddles", chase the waves and checking out rockpools. he didn't want to leave when we told him it was time to go home.  

if the first day of the year is an indication of what's to come for the year, i'm pretty confident it's going to be a great one. no doubt working full time with two kids is going to be hectic. there's new routine to be learnt and i'll probably have to take my multitasking skills to a whole new level but i'm ready for this challenge ahead. i want to do more with the kids in 2016. i want to spend less time at home just plodding along. i want to take them out to new places and experience new things more often. i want to have more YOLO moments and just enjoy them while they are still little.

2016, let's do this!