2026 is unlikely to go down as one of my favorite years, I must admit. In honesty, 2025 was kinda ordinary too, and there are a multitude of reasons for that – not least of which the requirement to have meniscus surgery on my knee in October, which was followed by a complete knee replacement on the same knee about seven weeks ago.

Added to that little adventure was a suspected skin cancer which thankfully proved to be benign, and an abcess which needed treatment and I feel like I’ve been jumping from one medical situation to the next.

And I don’t know about the rest of you, but the world around us certainly seems a little wibbly-wobbly in the scheme of things. So much war, so much anger, so much negativity.

And in the midst of all this, my DH and I are supposed to be building our dream home. The photo above shows you precisely how far we’ve gotten to date, not least of which is because my health woes have left me unable to help out the way I should have been. This has added to my general sense of frustration and impotence to move forward because nothing seems to be going quite right.

All of which has meant that I haven’t written more than a few words here and there for months. It’s not like I haven’t had the down time to do so, I’m just missing that creative spark which leads to the pen hitting the paper. It’s kind of strange, because the ideas keep bumping into one another inside my head… they just can’t seem to get out of my head and onto paper, or the laptop screen.

It’s been frustrating, and worrying simultaneously because writing is what makes me feel alive, what makes me feel like a productive member of the human race. Usually, when I can’t type, I revert to handwriting and that seems to do the trick, but even my handwriting storytelling has come to a screaming halt.

So what to do? Well for starters, I’m trying to get back into blogging, which is in itself a form of creativity, and I hope (really, really hope) that with baby steps into getting some words out there, things will improve.

And if only we can get to the stage where we actually BUILD that house, I’m sure life will run much more smoothly 🙂