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Dear 2012....

New Year’s Eve – bye bye 2012

BY MIA FREEDMAN

Dear 2012,

You really kicked my arse. There’s no other way to put it. As you finished up your work and you prepared to make way for 2013, I kinda limped to the finish line, I’ll be honest.

Professionally, you threw some massive challenges right up into my face. Launching ivillage.com.au, losing my newspaper column, hosting the Prime Minister at Mamamia HQ twice in the space of a couple of months, enduring some pretty unpleasant attacks on social media which led me to take an indefinite break from Twitter and making some major staff changes to the Mamamia editorial team.

Personally, I have watched my eldest child complete the transition into a full blown teenager, my middle child blossom into a schoolgirl and my youngest lose almost all traces of his babyhood. I feel mixed about this. Immensely proud and grateful but also aware that with any evolution there is some sense of loss as well as gain.

But look, I don’t want to be ungrateful, 2012. I am keenly aware that every year is a blessing – as kumbaya as that sounds, it’s also true. As a friend of mine says, anyone who bitches about getting older needs to go visit a cancer ward.

So. Goodbye 2012. Thanks for the memories, the challenges and the blessings.
2013, I’m almost ready.

Mia xxxx

Care to write a farewell letter to 2012? How was it for you?

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