Looking forward to the next few months?

Looking forward to a cruise next week.

Not a lot to look forward to as I do not have much of a social life now disability has kicked in even harder. Do look forward to warmer weather, roll on Spring! Maybe my longed for move will happen but more likely not! Look forward to waking up each morning though, go to bed with fingers crossed I do 🤞

Back to traveling this year for me. I haven't been away since 2019 abroad. 2020 and 2021 because of Covid19 so holiday plans couldn't be kept.

Last year I couldn't go, as I had a health scare that needed to be sorted. It turned out nothing sinister however its more meds on top.

So off to Canada to see my daughter, SonIL and youngest grandchildren. Then to our spiritual homeland of Kefalonia. I can't wait.

Incidently I have been on 2 spiritual retreats yearly I do in the U.K at the end of 2021 and 2022 for weekends. I don't count them as they are not away from it all.

I plan to be taking more time out for me as I've been giving too much the past few years to others and I've nothing left in the tank for me which has come to a head the past few weeks.

Having lost my husband 5 years ago in a March coming I'm still grieving as I always will be. I've given too much of myself to others and not focused enough on me. That's changing. You also find out who your real support network is at this time. I don't count my family in with this. I mean others outside the family.

Just to add I travel solo. I like my own company so that's fine by me. I'm not a people's person which is why I like traveling solo

There is always something to look forward to - you have to make it happen!

Like several others on this thread, I am looking forward to getting my State Pension soon which will mean I have a bit more money to do some nice things!

Hope you have a very happy May birthday Bijou. What an achievement.

Inspired by 100-year-old Mr Peter Davies, I’m also applying to volunteer to listen to primary school children reading.
I agree with previous posters about life being too short to be bored.

Looking forward to seeing Lion King again at Easter, and Newsies if it does a national tour, alongside a Christening and a wedding, a very welcome change from last year where I attended 6 funerals, including my own mum😪 hopefully a much brighter year ahead

I’m looking forward to warmer weather (and a reduction in heating bills as a result!) As a dog lover, I’m looking forward to Crufts. I shall be watching every minute of the action on TV with my elderly dog. When I lived near Birmingham I went every year for about 20 years; when my current dog is no longer with me (which I hope won’t be for quite some time to come) I hope to go again and treat myself to an overnight stay or two. I’m also looking forward to a bit of spring cleaning - the patio needs doing - and tidying my garden so that I can enjoy being out there once it’s warm enough to do so. I’ve just started an Open University course and have my first tutorial tomorrow evening - looking forward to that. I expect that at 65, I’ll be the oldest student! In the longer term, I’m looking forward to travelling again. I’ve been watching Robson Green‘s series on weekend escapes and there are a few places I’d like to visit. Oh, and there can never be enough newly published books to look forward to reading!

-Warmer weather and more light
-Having a walk with the DD and the one week old newborn DGD when she is a little older
-Going to Devon and walking on the Cobb at Lyme
Planting out my pots and watching the flowers grow
-Birthdays, Mother's and Father's Days, Easter, Whitsun and other high days and holidays
-Being able to get fitter after this cold weather recedes a bit
-Resuming life after winter hibernation and worrying about the DD's difficult pregnancy
-All sorts and everything

Congratulations Bijou. How fantastic.

I hope to celebrate my hundredth birthday in May and look forward to my fifth great grandchild in April but lately feel lucky to wake up each morning although life is painful and tedious.

Oh that's so sad Kandinsky my children are grown up and I have grandchildren but I am very involved in my community, run a few art holidays, go life drawing, walking etc and am always looking forward to planning the next adventure, I'm only 66 but hope to continue like this, boredom has always been banned in my house, if I ever felt it coming on I'd do something about it! Life is too short to be bored!

I am going to see the Knossos exhibition at the Ashmolean in Oxford, meeting my new great niece the next day and going to a 70th birthday party the same day. Donatello at the V and A in February, Bologna (for the Book Fair) and Amsterdam (for the Vermeer exhibition) in March ... so much to look forward to! I tend not to look back.

Don’t have much planned but you all have inspired me!

Kadinsky I feel just the same. I still miss the family life when the children were young and I had so much energy. My GS is grown up now and how I miss the little boy that he was. All the really good stuff is in the past. Now I am of course extremely grateful for what I have but I don't get excited about anything any more. It's a shame.

My big treat from my daughter finally comes in March this year, barring any disasters. We had covid and the Russian invasion to thank for the last 2 postponements of Swan Lake.

It's in Edinburgh so i expect there will be some nice food along the way.

In the short term I have some beautiful pot grown spring bulbs to plant out and brighten up a corner of the garden.
All nice to start the new year as I venture on life as a single woman again.

I too live vicariously on this site and enjoy the wider world it brings. Struggling to look forward at the moment but know the solution is in my own hands and I need to start suggesting things rather than waiting for others to include me in their plans. I have never been like this before so it is a bit of a struggle, but knowing that other people are living life rather than watching it go past is really helpful.

I always try to have something in my diary to look forward to.

It doesn’t necessarily have to be something big or expensive just something that will bring me joy and different from my day to day life.

(((Hugs))) to all with sadness or illness 🌸🌸🌸🌸

Thank you henetha. You too.

I have two holidays booked for this year, one in Angus and one in Yorkshire and I may be travelling to DD's in Brussels.
In April I am going to a concert, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Nicola Benedetti and Benjamin Grosvenor are playing, really looking forward to that.

Such kind words, Kate1949. Thank you, and many good wishes to you for better things to come.

henetha. It's a lovely thread. We can't not post in case it upsets someone, unless posts are deliberately upsetting. I suffer with depression and anxiety and have trouble looking forward to anything. Your thread made me feel more optimistic.

I feel unsettled about starting this thread as I now realise that there are some people for whom looking forward is very difficult indeed. To those people I send my heartfelt good wishes and the fervent hope that somehow things can get better, but if they cannot then I hope you can find peace.

We are lucky to be able to go away; at least we have no health or financial worries. DH has two trips planned with his cycling buddies - one in May, one in June. For me that's better than a holiday - a few days alone at home with no mealtimes to keep to, sleeping with the shutters and windows wide open, I can eat meat and am generally able to do what I like.

In July our three sons are taking him on a canoeing trip which they promised him for his 70th birthday (which was literally days before the first lockdown in Feb/March 2020.)

This thread has prompted me to make some proper holiday plans for both of us though. Somewhere not too far, although I would love to see the sea again. It's 1000 km in any direction from here - North Sea, Baltic, Mediterranean or Atlantic.

I think the main highlights of 2023 will be watching the grandchildren grow and develop. We have five aged between 0 and 8 years - the best time!

My heart goes out to those people too. I realise not everyone is tiptoeing through the tulips. I am one of them but I thought I'd join in a happy thread for once.