SPC (celebration...two days late!)

christmas eve
with my husband's family
which we do every year...
this year's included
2 new babies,
family home from away,
meeting family of new family joined,
hugs,
lots of pictures taken,
food shared,
presents ripped open,
compliments on the new living room furniture,
12's scoffing down of her favorite meatballs on toothpicks,
shyness on my part,
the yearly singing of rita macneill's working man
followed by silent night,
long drive home,
anticipation of what the morning will bring.

day at a time...

(a picture of my pant leg and foot after an hour's worth of shoveling)

creative everyday:
doodled, started making a birthday/altered/type book from an old kid's book
for one of my bestest friends, journaled every morning, knit at least six rows on the
smock coat, messed around with my blog/format/colors etc, took pictures of my feet
and of a massive square of ice, wrote two "real" emails to bloggers that i would like
to get to know better, dyed my hair black...really really black...like it used to be...

reading: the glass castle...i totally love love love this book...i feel like my bad book streak
is over! i don't want this book to end...although, honestly, i am very close to the end...

listening: turpentine by brandi carlile...i get a sudden aching sadness over this line
"wishing i was ten again so i could be your friend again" probably for a totally different
reason than intended by writer of the song but ache nonetheless.
the name of the song alone is an ache of a memory.

watching: alphadog...hate to admit that it was good even with JT in it...gag me...sad that
it was true (or based on true events, i'm not sure)
startdust...i LOVED this, loved loved loved this. i think i have blogged this already,
but i can't help it, i really, really loved it.

and for the record...NO diet coke ( my vice and addiction for the past 2 years)
pepsi, i've come home again...did you miss me?

sundaze...


sweet-nothing-sundaze...
sigh.

breakfast of bacon and sour-sweet jammed toast...
kids willingly cleaning their rooms...
cuddles on the chair listening to this new favorite song...

still a whole day open ahead of me...
and knowing i have tomorrow off to do as i please.

in the spirit of the new year and good intentions,
i have joined this
and am doing this fun swap
and have gone back to the journaling idea
borrowed from michelle
every morning as i
started here...

i went back and read my journaling
from this exercise in november
and was astounded at what i had wanted and
how voicing that affected my day...
i didn't get everything that i wanted obviously
but it did change things that i did throughout the day
because i felt aware of what i wanted the day to be,
short-term and long.

happy sunday to you...

resolute.

it is new year's eve...
and i am full of resolutions,
plans, goals, lists and expectations
for 2008.

to break it down...

me:
-take more pictures, mess with the camera more, experiment...
-create more/make more/write more/imagine more
-really try to aim towards next year's craft fair at christmas...start now.
-healthier-drink more water/less pop---NO DIET...no aspartame.
-walk more even though i now have a license...hahaha.
-write real letters.

family:
-spend more time with S doing things that we like...fun things
-quality time with kids...sledding, game nights, etc

home:
-get bills under control
-get S's business rolling...game plan with goals and follow through
-decide what we eventually want to do with each of the rooms not yet
done in our house...floorplan, decide, list what we need and budget...
-get house painted

work:
-learn more about simply accounting

i know this seems like a lot...but we'll see...
i love new year's...
happy new year's to you!