This was the celebratory "Made-it-through-the-holiday-madness" High Five! and while I'm a little late expressing my exacerbation for/to/with/at the whole holiday season, I will willingly admit it's because it's taken me this long to recover. But, ONWARD!
Topics to Cover (in a perfectly disjointed manner, befitting the outstanding quality of this blog):
1.
The 25 Days of quite procrastinating and effing blog about it: Is over. This idea=fail. I really should know better. One quiet day in November I sat down and said to myself "self, you are crap at updating your blog!" Then I replied to myself "WTF, I'm a little busy
watching Days of Our Lives RAISING CHILDREN and whatever...." But then I say, "oh, I know, genius idea- I'll commit to blogging EVERY DAY- ya know, coz I'll probably just be bored all month, what with the entertaining, and family and birthdays and Christmas and all..." Did I mention GENIUS!?! Anyway, I think I squeaked out 12 posts before completely giving up a week before Christmas. niiiiiceee.
2. Christmas: Was quite lovely. Busy (as we managed to conduct at least 3 separate family functions within the confines of the day) but really very very nice.
3. New years: Looked like this.
And Jammies. And snoring by 12:15 (which, by standards set in previous years, is AWESOME- coz at least we saw the ball drop (and some very inappropriate drunken kissing, by what I can only imagine were complete strangers) this year.
3. Obligatory New Year's Resolution Recap:
Last Year's Resolutions:
- Show my husband and children love, patience and respect even when it's hard.
- Keep on top of the household chores (clean as you go? what??)
- Grow as a person, and stuff.
- Call family members on the phone instead of assuming they've read the blog and/or checked Picasa.
- Get over the Thing With The Phone.
- Read at least one book that does not contain the words "Baby" or "Whisperer" or any combination of Baby & Whisperer in the title.
- Write more Thank-You Notes
- Go an entire year without peeing on a pregnancy test or even THINKING about peeing on a pregnancy test.
The Ugly Truth:
- I gave this one an honest effort- but, Let us remember that, despite her age, my daughter has been "two" for the better part of this last year. So yeah- define patience.
- ::snort:: moving right along...
- ummm...
- I think I tried this once too- but I believe the phone calls were actually to tell the family to check the blog or picasa.
- Didn't happen- though I am much better at responding to email via the phone- points for effort?
- Read many this year- actually really enjoyed a few as well! So what if they were all vampire teen trash...
- so.many.thank.you.notes. And I've still got the Christmas stack to mail.
- Killed IT!! This is one resolution that I ROCKED!! WOOT WOOT! I love ending on a high note!
Stay tuned for this year's resolutions and The List....
