Happy New Year!
NOT making resolutions this year. Hate them.
DH and I are so fricken boring. I think we were watching a "South Park" marathon until 11:30; we watched the ball drop and then went to bed. Yeah, its a hotbed of excitement here. We'd had our little New Year's Eve party with the girls before they went to bed. I bought them little tiaras and noisemakers, and they were dancing around the house yelling "Happy New Year!"
I took down my 2007 calendar, and before throwing it out, decided to leaf through it. This time last year, Miss Princess had a vocabulary of about 8 words (mama, bottle, more, no, red, yellow, blue & green). Fast forward to today - and I'm able to hold ENTIRE conversations with her. There's no shutting her up.
When I was a little girl, I used to drive my mother crazy with questions: before going to bed every night, I'd ask her, "Mommy, what are we going to do tomorrow?"...I needed to know the days' agenda ahead of time. Now, when I put my Princess to bed each night, she goes over her expected agenda for the next day: "Tomorrow...wake up...I wear my Dora shirt and brown pants? go for a ride with daddy? For muffins and coffee? And stay home with mommy and daddy tomorrow? ..." Its so strange how certain things are passed down.
This time last year, I was looking at preschools, and freaking out about the girls' evaluations for preschool.
And here are my girls, doing so well - school has opened them up so much. Dr. D. said the Pledge of Allegiance the other day. It took me a few minutes to figure out what she was saying, but once I realized it, I was like, "HOLY CRAP!" She even put her little hand over her heart, it was so precious.
This has really been a great year for them. I can only hope it keeps on getting better.
My Christmas tree has been taken down, and its ready to go back to the attic. DH and I are planning to rip up our crappy carpets (that have probably been in the house since the turn of the century), put down a new subfloor (since there are spots in our floor that are deteriorating), and then lay down wooden floors. I am NOT looking foward to all the work. Necessary yes. Fun? Heck NO.
One last thing before I go. I've finally allowed myself to be assimilated into the Facebook craze. I fought it for as long as I could - but thanks to LISA, I finally sucked it up and followed along, sheeplike. I personally don't understand the obsession with sites like MySpace and Facebook - nor do I have the time to invest in properly tweaking my pages the way I'd like. While surfing around on Facebook I found some folks that I used to work with several years ago (at a well-known Big 4 firm)...it got me thinking about my career that's now over. I don't think about it much, but in its simplest terms - I sacrificed my career for my kids. There was no choice really. No one else could have stayed home and facilitated the 20+ hours of therapy per week for each of my kids. When its all said and done, I wouldn't change the decision I made - but sometimes I think about what I gave up. That's when I came across these quotes:
* The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you. -Tennessee Williams
* We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. — Joseph Campbell
I'm a big fan of Ali Edwards' site - at the beginning of a year, she always chooses a 'word' for the year that she sort of keeps as her mantra, her goal, her touchtone for the entire year. I've decided to do the same.
I AM.
"i am not what I ought to be, i am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still i am not what i once used to be, and by the grace of God i am what i am"
DH and I are so fricken boring. I think we were watching a "South Park" marathon until 11:30; we watched the ball drop and then went to bed. Yeah, its a hotbed of excitement here. We'd had our little New Year's Eve party with the girls before they went to bed. I bought them little tiaras and noisemakers, and they were dancing around the house yelling "Happy New Year!"
I took down my 2007 calendar, and before throwing it out, decided to leaf through it. This time last year, Miss Princess had a vocabulary of about 8 words (mama, bottle, more, no, red, yellow, blue & green). Fast forward to today - and I'm able to hold ENTIRE conversations with her. There's no shutting her up.
When I was a little girl, I used to drive my mother crazy with questions: before going to bed every night, I'd ask her, "Mommy, what are we going to do tomorrow?"...I needed to know the days' agenda ahead of time. Now, when I put my Princess to bed each night, she goes over her expected agenda for the next day: "Tomorrow...wake up...I wear my Dora shirt and brown pants? go for a ride with daddy? For muffins and coffee? And stay home with mommy and daddy tomorrow? ..." Its so strange how certain things are passed down.
This time last year, I was looking at preschools, and freaking out about the girls' evaluations for preschool.
And here are my girls, doing so well - school has opened them up so much. Dr. D. said the Pledge of Allegiance the other day. It took me a few minutes to figure out what she was saying, but once I realized it, I was like, "HOLY CRAP!" She even put her little hand over her heart, it was so precious.
This has really been a great year for them. I can only hope it keeps on getting better.
My Christmas tree has been taken down, and its ready to go back to the attic. DH and I are planning to rip up our crappy carpets (that have probably been in the house since the turn of the century), put down a new subfloor (since there are spots in our floor that are deteriorating), and then lay down wooden floors. I am NOT looking foward to all the work. Necessary yes. Fun? Heck NO.
One last thing before I go. I've finally allowed myself to be assimilated into the Facebook craze. I fought it for as long as I could - but thanks to LISA, I finally sucked it up and followed along, sheeplike. I personally don't understand the obsession with sites like MySpace and Facebook - nor do I have the time to invest in properly tweaking my pages the way I'd like. While surfing around on Facebook I found some folks that I used to work with several years ago (at a well-known Big 4 firm)...it got me thinking about my career that's now over. I don't think about it much, but in its simplest terms - I sacrificed my career for my kids. There was no choice really. No one else could have stayed home and facilitated the 20+ hours of therapy per week for each of my kids. When its all said and done, I wouldn't change the decision I made - but sometimes I think about what I gave up. That's when I came across these quotes:
* The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you. -Tennessee Williams
* We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. — Joseph Campbell
I'm a big fan of Ali Edwards' site - at the beginning of a year, she always chooses a 'word' for the year that she sort of keeps as her mantra, her goal, her touchtone for the entire year. I've decided to do the same.
I AM.
"i am not what I ought to be, i am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still i am not what i once used to be, and by the grace of God i am what i am"
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