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What are you looking forward to in 2025?

missy

missy

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Could be anything. Bling. Birth of a child/grandchild/niece etc
Absolutely anything you are looking forward to
If you are willing to share

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I'm looking forward to my daughter getting a place of her own at the end of the school year (she's a teacher.) We encouraged her to live at home the past few years so she could save up for her Master's degree, but this house is too small for 3 adults to be comfortable. We all agree it's time.
 
Sort out my finances and live within my means.

Celebrate a milestone/significant birthday.

Work, really, and I shall be quite busy for the next 9 months or so with more gainful employment covering a maternity leave.

Camping holidays.

Attending formal black tie events so that I can bring out and wear my nicer jewellery - three planned to date.

Charity work, including the fund raising events that I am responsible for.

Going up to London to see Oliver! on stage.

Going to a orchestral concert featuring the music of Rodgers & Hammerstein.

Getting better with playing the clarinet - I recently started to practice Grade 8 scales, woo hoo!

Getting better at ten-pin bowling.

Attempt cooking some new to me dishes, one of them is savoury turnip cake that my dad used to make. Purchased some of the ingredients with the aim to make it in Q4 last year, got postponed when I had to rush to Canada to be with my mum.

To name a few of the more significant ones.

Life is good.

DK :))
 
I’m pretty confident that at some point in 2025 my baby will sleep through the night consistently. He’s 6 months old and has been mostly waking up every 2 hours to eat overnight. We had like 1 week of 1 wake up/ night. I don’t believe in sleep training/ cry it out so I’m just along for the ride.
 
This is my oldest child's last year of primary school, so we're excited to look around the secondary schools in our area and select one for him.

This one is boring, but we will have our biggest business loan paid off in the next few months, and will hopefully spend the next year or two smashing down the remaining loan. We've not had a mortgage on our house for years, so that will be the final step to being debt free!

On a way more fun note, we are planning a month long trip to Japan with the kids in May (any and all recommendations very welcome pleaseandthankyou!), and another cruise in December for my husband's 50th, which we are all really looking forward to. Plus several other close friends turn 50 this year, so lots of parties planned!
 
I’m looking forward to finishing my five stone ring! I have the diamonds (2.74cttw of KL old cuts) and I’m hoping to set them in Feb/Mar.

I’m also looking forward to being on study leave/sabbatical for Jan to Apr, which means I don’t teach again until Sept. I love teaching but it’s so draining I’m really looking forward to the break. I plan to finish a paper my collaborator and I have been working on for a few years about weight stigma in mental healthcare. I’m also going to start a new community engaged study about chronic illness and embodiment (or rather, disembodiment as a means of coping with chronic illness). I’ve been studying the subject for a few years now with my graduate students and now it’s time to engage with local disability/chronic illness community in the topic. It’s likely going to be really intense but also very rewarding.
 
winnietucker said:
I’m pretty confident that at some point in 2025 my baby will sleep through the night consistently. He’s 6 months old and has been mostly waking up every 2 hours to eat overnight. We had like 1 week of 1 wake up/ night. I don’t believe in sleep training/ cry it out so I’m just along for the ride.
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I hope you have lots of support! That’s a difficult time and people forget how hard it is on parents, especially mothers. Wishing you the best, and please reach out if you need anything or just need to talk to grownups for a bit. (I’m pretty sure there’s a FB community that’s searchable but you didn’t hear that from me.) Sending love and hugs!
 
monarch64 said:
I hope you have lots of support! That’s a difficult time and people forget how hard it is on parents, especially mothers. Wishing you the best, and please reach out if you need anything or just need to talk to grownups for a bit. (I’m pretty sure there’s a FB community that’s searchable but you didn’t hear that from me.) Sending love and hugs!
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Thank you, that’s so kind! Luckily we moved back to our home state before he was born, so we do have help. I’ve kind of gotten used to the lack of sleep but not being exhausted all the time is going to be very nice. I can’t wait!
 
winnietucker said:
I’m pretty confident that at some point in 2025 my baby will sleep through the night consistently. He’s 6 months old and has been mostly waking up every 2 hours to eat overnight. We had like 1 week of 1 wake up/ night. I don’t believe in sleep training/ cry it out so I’m just along for the ride.
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Omg this haha. I'm looking forward to going back to work so I can have a hot meal and toilet breaks. My baby is 9 months and still doesn't sleep through. I too don't believe in sleep training. It will get better though I promise. My 3yo is sleeping pretty well now.
 
i need a full time job that wont kill my feet or my knees

there are many many things on the royal calander from the royal families (not just my BRF) that i look forward to
it may seem small and perhaps to some meaningless, but it is sparkly and it makes me happy, also i learn much about the country of which the royal family is from
I look forward to a healthy King and Princess of Wales
 
maryjane04 said:
Omg this haha. I'm looking forward to going back to work so I can have a hot meal and toilet breaks. My baby is 9 months and still doesn't sleep through. I too don't believe in sleep training. It will get better though I promise. My 3yo is sleeping pretty well now.
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I hope it happens for you soon! Reading about all these unicorn babies sleeping through the night as early as 8 weeks makes me so jealous. The sleep deprivation is so hard. I’m in the US so I went back to work 10 weeks postpartum. It sucked but atleast I can catch a little nap on my lunch if needed.
 
maryjane04 said:
Omg this haha. I'm looking forward to going back to work so I can have a hot meal and toilet breaks. My baby is 9 months and still doesn't sleep through. I too don't believe in sleep training. It will get better though I promise. My 3yo is sleeping pretty well now.
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im 53
my mum and dad didnt beleave it leaving me to cry
they would drive me around the neighbourhod till i feel asleep
now i sleep on buses, trains (unfortunatly not planes) and cars
i can even sleep while 4x4ing in a rocky river bed -ive done it ! just ask Gary
 
maryjane04 said:
Omg this haha. I'm looking forward to going back to work so I can have a hot meal and toilet breaks. My baby is 9 months and still doesn't sleep through. I too don't believe in sleep training. It will get better though I promise. My 3yo is sleeping pretty well now.
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There was once a very supportive subforum here. Just posting to let you all and others know that you’re never alone.
 
winnietucker said:
I hope it happens for you soon! Reading about all these unicorn babies sleeping through the night as early as 8 weeks makes me so jealous. The sleep deprivation is so hard. I’m in the US so I went back to work 10 weeks postpartum. It sucked but atleast I can catch a little nap on my lunch if needed.
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Oh I'm so jealous hahaha but I keep telling myself that they only need us when they're little. They'll grow out of it soon. I feel so bad for you going back to work so early. I go back end of next month and I don't know how I'll survive without naps lol.
 
I have been chastising myself for the idea of needing to look forward to something and not enjoying the present for what it is.
I have days when I wake up so happy and look forward to the lesson I will teach or the evening I will spend with hubby. Then I have days like today, where I am upset bc I don’t have exciting plans for the weekend and then I push myself to make them and wonder why???? Why can’t I just enjoy a peaceful weekend? Why do I strive for fun fun fun every weekend? Be it in the form of a getaway, a party, a new experience? I am only 51 and have been an empty nester for 8 years—so nothing new about my situation. First world problem, I know.
 
pearlsngems said:
I'm looking forward to my daughter getting a place of her own at the end of the school year (she's a teacher.) We encouraged her to live at home the past few years so she could save up for her Master's degree, but this house is too small for 3 adults to be comfortable. We all agree it's time.
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Has she completed her Masters?
 
HS4S_2 said:
My sons wedding, my other 3 childrens imminent engagements (my kids are all close in age) and the birth of my first grandchild. I am so excited!
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How exciting! :) This is going to be a great year for your family.
 
canuk-gal said:
Has she completed her Masters?
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LOL no, she hasn't started it. She was trying to decide what she wanted it in, plus her first year of teaching (middle school kids in a very disadvantaged area) without a proper curriculum was very challenging. Fights in classroom, having to contact multiple parents every day/evening; she was wiped out. This is her 2nd year and she is finally coming up for air. Some administrative changes were made (a new curriculum, and locking cell phones in Yondr pouches --which helped with classroom behavior) but there are still students getting suspended for fighting and sometimes when she calls the office for help, no one picks up.

I think she will start on her MA next year, once she is on her own in her own quiet environment and space to spread out. She will have saved enough money that she won't have to take out a loan. Eventually she wants to teach high school.
 
2024 was really rough for me and I'm still going through it however…..

Our oldest is graduating high school this year! He is planning on a career in law enforcement and we are so proud of him.
 
pearlsngems said:
LOL no, she hasn't started it. She was trying to decide what she wanted it in, plus her first year of teaching (middle school kids in a very disadvantaged area) without a proper curriculum was very challenging. Fights in classroom, having to contact multiple parents every day/evening; she was wiped out. This is her 2nd year and she is finally coming up for air. Some administrative changes were made (a new curriculum, and locking cell phones in Yondr pouches --which helped with classroom behavior) but there are still students getting suspended for fighting and sometimes when she calls the office for help, no one picks up.

I think she will start on her MA next year, once she is on her own in her own quiet environment and space to spread out. She will have saved enough money that she won't have to take out a loan. Eventually she wants to teach high school.
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Wishing her much success!!!! Her job sounds tough tho...
 
Just added another meal to my milestone 3-day birthday celebration:

Cheap eat on Day 1 when I travel up to the Big Smoke.

3-star lunch on the actual day on Day 2, cocktails and nibbles in the evening.

2-star lunch the following Day 3 and 1-star in the evening.

The 1-star meal has only been added as an event by the chef/hotel today. It is an experimental kind of meal, with the team working in front of the diners to try out their dishes in development.

I have been to two of this 1-star chef's similar events in the past and liked it, and I liked his cooking (dined at his restaurant a few times). It was he who suggested the 2-star restaurant for Day 2 lunch when I dined at his cosy experiment event in December 2024.

I have to keep telling myself it is still cheaper than 3 weeks in Japan!

DK :lol-2:
 
YadaYadaYada said:
2024 was really rough for me and I'm still going through it however…..

Our oldest is graduating high school this year! He is planning on a career in law enforcement and we are so proud of him.
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Sorry you had a rough year and are still coping. Much success to your son!
 
Less pain (and hopefully better sleep!).
Back and hip issues are settling somewhat and getting injections at our local pain clinic.

Warm weather and sunshine.
 
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