Fine Brave Hearts and True

There are approximately 5 months left until I turn 30. It seems so grown up! (Never mind the fact that I am married with two kids). I have had it in my head all year to set about ticking off a list of 30 things I'd like to have done before this milestone but due to a rather trying pregnancy I have just gotten around to it.

1. Start a Blog
2. Start HR course
3. Finish crochet blanket for Leo
4. Finish crochet blanket for Zoe
5. Learn to use my sewing machine
6. Visit and explore the Blue Mountains
7. Drive to Mudgee and visit my best friend Sarah
8. Collect 6 wooden chairs for our dining table
9. Lose baby weight/Attend an exercise class a week
10. Find a shade of red lipstick that suits me
11. Learn to make bread/focaccia
12. Finish the colour on my thigh tattoo
13. Drastically change hair style and colour
14. Complete one craft/activity with Leo each week
15. Enroll in a vintage makeup/hair course
16. Buy a swimsuit
17. Win a competition
18. Have a romantic night away with my husband Jason
19. Plant a herb garden I can take to Newcastle
20. Re watch the Harry Potter movies
21. Get a small ridiculous tattoo
22. Go whale watching
23. Start a collection or two
24. Run the MS colour run
25. Read at least 5 books a month
26. Sing drunken Karaoke in front of a room full of strangers
27. Make a wedding and babies photo book
28. Re learn how to knit
29. Paint my nails a different colour every week
30. Take more photos

That is it, with 5 months left. I don't think anything on the list is too unachievable, Some of it may just seem plain silly but I am determined to do it all!

Inspired by so many sweet, creative and witty female bloggers, I have been playing with the idea of starting a blog for a while. So here it is! The first goal checked off... A brand new blog.

Why "The Tiniest Happily Ever After"? At my wedding to Jason last year, my best friend Sarah read a poem written by my favourite author Neil Gaiman that he wrote for friends of his when they got married. What stuck out for me were the lines:

That makes ever the tiniest happily 
ever after
Something to be proud of for a wee
forever

When I was younger, like so many of us, I dreamt of being known. Of changing the world. As i got older my dreams changed. I aspired to being a mother, a wife and having a happy home. It may not be the grandeur dreams of my youth but its my happily ever after. Tiny and perfect and something I am proud of. Hopefully, for a wee forever.

Welcome to my life.