I’m drinking wine, watching movies, and am quite possibly slightly delirious with exhaustion from too many late nights and early mornings over the past few days. But I had to make just one last post tonight in order to hit 100 for the year. New Years always makes me introspective and way too philosophical. So …
Monthly Archive: December 2009
Dec 31
Recipe for the New Year
Take twelve whole months,Clean them thoroughly of all bitterness, hate, and jealousy,Make them just as fresh and clean as possible. Now cut each month into twenty-eight, thirty, orthirty-one different parts,but don’t make up the whole batch at once.Prepare it one day at a time out of these ingredients. Mix well into each day one part …
Dec 28
Breathing
Christmas has come and gone, like it always does, in a flash of food, fun, and new toys. Christmas Eve was wonderful, and I truly think that Christmas morning was the best we’ve ever had. There’s a scene in an episode of Friends that I love. The gang is sitting in Monica’s apartment, about to …
Dec 24
Merry Christmas
I’d let the stress get the best of me, and I don’t know why. I was feeling the pressure of getting everything done in time, and the anxiety over being being sick for the holidays. Today, one day before Christmas, it has all come together as it always does. Today has been warm, calm and …
Dec 22
Cookies
Day 22 – Make Christmas Cookies Another day over in a week that is going way too fast. I’m trying to resist the panicky feeling that comes with having too much to do and not enough time to do it. We were out for much of the day again today (we have so far been …
Dec 21
Away in a Manger
Day 21 – Go Geocaching No new pictures for today, other than our friendly little snowman. Today was… ok. We went out for a few geocaches, braved the grocery store to prepare for Friday, and I tried not to be completely bummed out by the fact that vacation has begun and I’m still sick. Here’s …
Dec 20
Christmas Colds, Part 2
Day 18 – Have a pizza night Day 19 – Drive around to look at the neighborhood Christmas lights Day 20 – Have a campout by the Christmas tree Tegan, the one who brought this ick home, is just about back to her normal silly self. I’m on day 5 of feeling utterly lousy, Mike’s …
Dec 17
Christmas Colds
Day 17 – Go out for icecreams after dinner We had so far managed to stay so healthy this holiday season… I never even said it out loud, not wanting to jinx it! Alas, it appears it has caught up with us, as 3 of the 6 of us are now down with colds. We’re …
Dec 16
Gingerbread Houses and Cheeseburgers
Day 16 – Make Gingerbread Houses The kids are getting tired. I feel badly that the ever elusive time of rest before Christmas has yet to come to fruition, and am so thankful that Mike is officially on vacation as of this Friday evening! We’re all needing that time together as a family. Tegan has …
Dec 15
And then there were ten
Ten days till Christmas, and I have been losing blogging steam, and just steam in general. My plan to rest before the holidays has pretty much fallen by the wayside, as rest usually requires sleep, and sleep has been hard to come by. But we’re plugging along. Today’s advent calendar activity was supposed to be …
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