RECOVERY.

Hey Guys.

Today is the 16th of January. My EED for Alicia was 16/1/16. I remember this time last year... My hospital bag was packed. I was pacing up and down to try and get madam out but nope she stayed in for 12 more days. I believe she came at the perfect time. I'm so thankful for past 365 days. Words can't even begin to express my gratitude to God, family and friends. Ally is almost ONE. Yay!!! Praise God!

Today though, I just wanted to share a few things I learnt from the recent theft of Ally's Pram.
If you haven't read about the stolen pram or the new pram, please click on the links to bring yourself up to speed.

Joe and I have lived in this development for three and a half years. We always prayed to be a blessing to our neighbourhood and to be friendly or at least cordial with our neighbours. In apartment complexes, people tend not to be very 'neighbourly'. Not like they are hostile but everyone just minds their business. This is the 4th I've lived in. People just give each other a node or smile, hi or hello on their way in and out.

The day the pram was stolen, my husband suggested we write a letter to all our neighbours. This was motivated by the police saying they had received similar car burglary reports in our area.Well that's not something we would like our neighbourhood to be known for. We weren't sure what we were going to say but when we got our thoughts together, we wrote a letter to every apartment. In the letter, we stated what had happened and that we would like everyone to come together on a Facebook group we had created to identify possible solutions.

One person joined the group, then two people, then three and before we knew it we were building a community for people living in this development. Not every resident has joined the group yet. Several people shared their stories and we were able to come up with some potential solutions.
It's been a learning journey for Joe and I. We have learnt how to write a petition, how to seek information from the police website among many other things. We petitioned the Sheffield City Council in order to make our street safe again. You can view and sign our petition here. We are also creating an appeal to the development management company whom we pay service charge to yearly.
It's been an interesting experience. Lots of learning.

So I know this post is not much about new mums or mums to be but I hope you've learnt a thing or two from it. When life gives you lemons look for how to make lemonade and drink it. Unite with people and find solutions! There is power in numbers. Its amazing what people can do when they unite.


xo.