Starting another journey. ..

Kia ora. My name is Myra. I turned 40 last week. I have 7 kids, 4 that I gave birth to and 3 step-sons. My hubby and I have been married for 3 years-ish. We live in Waimārama – the most beautiful place on earth. I am a community volunteer, self-employed co-owner of two businesses and stay-at-home mum. My baby was born 8 weeks ago today ... which I why I am starting this blog now.

8 weeks ago I was in ridiculous pain – as all mums who give birth know – but this pain was from the post-birth stuff going on. Stiches, injections, gas, tears – it was all on and I nearly got shipped off to theatre. She (my baby) was 8 lb 5 – my smallest bub – but did the most damage. It’s not her fault!

The weeks following were the hugest struggle I’ve had ‘healing’ up, physically and emotionally! But now I’m pretty much there – a few pains here and there but today I decided to ‘get back into it’. That is, exercise! (Ha ha you thought this blog was all about having babies and stuff ;) Well it kind of is but more on that later...)

So yep – I woke up at 5:30 and fed LP (little princess), hubby got up and got brekkie for BP (big princess) then he came back to bed still revelling in the awesomeness of his epic surf sesh at the Spit in Mahia yesterday. As I was snuggling in for a snooze a niggly thought danced around the edge of my mind – and this time I felt ready to act on it.

20 minutes later I was walking on the most beautiful white-sand beach in the world (I’m biased but it’s up there) with the sun streaming on my back with a rosy hue in my cheeks. I felt empowered and strong, despite the niggle in my weak pelvis – yep I suffer from symphysis pubis dysfunction (SPD – google it) during every pregnancy and the effects still haven’t quite left me. It makes me even more determined to get on this journey of mine...

The journey – that’s what this blog is about. With every footprint in the sand I felt the resurgence of a feeling ... a feeling of self-fulfilment, a sense of who I am, like I was resetting myself back to me. Who couldn’t feel something deep and satisfying in these surrounds?

And so I decided, I am going to do the Iron Maori in 2016. And ... I am going to do something for myself every week. And ... I am going to blog about it so that I can have something that regularly holds me accountable.

So here we go – that’s what I’m going to do and this is my 'how-I'm-going-to-do-it' blog :)