On this day 30 years ago I was...

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Sunning myself in Stresa, Lago Maggiore ..

Now 'stress' would be a more accurate description...

I was 1 year old

Earning £45 per week, FT as an office assistant.

Madly in love with my DH, who was my boyfriend then.

Still the same.

Married 5 years - no children - had just moved into this house and was in the south of France on a 3 week holiday (only 3 weeks because we went by bus from Glasgow) - was great fun though ... I can remember it like it was yesterday - however can only vaguely remember was actually did happen yesterday !!

Ahhh! I was in Italy, probably Venice or Verona on this date, a few days short of my 18th birthday. My best friend and I were having a blissful time Interrailing, but we were just about to head home where our respective mothers would be clutching envelopes containing our A level results.

Nearly 16 and had just come back from my last family caravan holiday and it was awful.

Summer holidays, in the middle of uni. No doubt i was riding horses and helping with harvest, almost certainly by driving the grain trailers.

22 and at uni and had just met my boyfriend. 29 years married this month.
I was also about 4 stone lighter!

I was six weeks into a marriage that I already knew was a dreadful mistake. I'd realised it was only a matter of time before he would hit me. I remember sitting in the garden in the rain and wishing I could just melt away to nothing.

He hit me a few months later in December, a few days before Christmas, and I managed to walk away and start over.

ohidoliketobe - haha!

Don't panic - I'm not your mum!

Having my 7th birthday party!

I was 9 and on holiday in France

Nearlyhadenough
You can be my MN mum!

I was under 8 stone - the female 'holy grail'!!!

I was 5 and just put in foster care.

Brie

ohidoliketobe

I will take on the role of MN mum!

I was 22 and had just started my first proper job after graduating.

I was 12 cant remember much but must have just finished first yr at high school this time 11 yrs ago however i had just got married

Full of the terrible twos!

I was 8 so probably being all giddy about santa coming.
Actually I'd of been at church 🙄😂😂

Absolutely no idea what I was doing.
That's old age for you ;-)

Wishing I could have stayed at university for Christmas to study in peace instead of having to join in with family festivities. (My memory of those holidays is the reason I will never force my student DC to do some of the family stuff my DM expected of me. They're adults. They have their own priorities. They can choose.)

19 and visiting my grandmother in hospital. She died on 4th January. My other grandmother died on Christmas Day seven years earlier. Despite that I still love Christmas!

Looking forward to DS1 first Christmas