Our year has begun.

Happy New Year to one and all.

Today is the first day of 2014 and I hope everyone reading this had a wonderful New Years Eve. Champagne being drunk, auld lang syne being mis-sung, we all know there are words we don't know! 2013 was a year of mixed emotion and though we saw it in with the most overwhelming excitement and anticipation, it was definitely the most difficult year of my life. So now we enter 2014 and this is our year, in less than 9months time we will be married !

Over the Christmas period you see friends and family you've not seen all year and it's that great time to discover who's doing what, catch up on local gossip and realise that younger cousins are actually all grown up and are no longer still in school (time flies). The question me and Luke have had this Christmas are 'How are the wedding plans coming along'... When this question gets asked I realise that the world starts to slow right down and that the loving relative sits there opposite, smiling at you in slow motion whilst your racking your brains for a response and the realisation hits you every time that your getting married. That event you've been planning for the past year is actually for a wedding. The general response to the question is the eye brows raised nod of the head ... "Yeah, not bad" - how simple minded.

I've realised this new epiphany has started to make me worry, small moments of hyperventilating and the idea of people watching me walk down the aisle makes me wish yet again that I owned 'Bernard's Watch'. However when welcoming in the new year last night with my future husband I couldn't believe that knowing by New Year's Eve 2014 I will be a wife!

Looking forward, we have now entered a period of decision making and actions and for me the first being a New Year's diet.

Have you ever tried a certain diet, was it Weight Watchers, Atkins, the one where you only eat cabbage ? How stupid.

I've always been quite successful at my own diets as I'm not calorie counting and I don't get myself so depressed I have to binge at the weekend. Moderation, smaller portions, lots of water, wholemeal, and always add one snack to your day (healthy obviously). It's now begun. The dreaded but enjoyable first dress fitting will be coming up in a few weeks and the aim is for the Xmas pounds to be gone. Do you realise that almost every bride will always put herself through this?

But 2014 has meant a kick up the bum and most of my day has been spent making spreadsheets, flicking through magazines and wondering what else needs to be done? 2014 where do we start ?

Everyone's now making their new years resolutions and I'm usually one of them with a list as long as my arm about being a better person, have a new hobby etc.. ( i've still not learnt a new language and that's been on my list for the past five years) but this year I'm going to say sod it. We've got enough to do and lots to squeeze in over the next 9months so we will stick to our main goal this year.