2020

Do I make the cheesy reference to 2020 vision?
It's tempting, especially as I've ended the previous decade with a tricky yet delightful jigsaw given me as a Christmas present from my offspring. A happy memory of the three of us is the image of the 1000 piece puzzle, and each piece is pixellated rather than immediately obvious. The hours I've bent over it these past few days gave me time to reflect on the similarity to parenting, that it often seems unclear and hard to discern exactly what is what, but with much persistence the bigger picture emerges and there are moments of sensing achievement.
The last decade turned out a bit unexpectedly on many fronts and there have certainly been challenges, but I've met so many incredible, wonderful people on the way, so the facebook decade photo I just posted has me smiling at the start and end.