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Friday, January 1, 2010

Happy New Year!

There are a few projects to tell you about, that just need photos.  (Oops, mailed one of them without snapping any photos!)   So let's talk about 2009.  Amazing year.

1)  My oldest daughter started talking.  At age 3 1/2 she had about 10 English words, and 20 other nonsense/signing words.  The downside of this is she is going through the NO stage of the terrible twos, the I DON'T WANT TO stage of the threes and the WHY stage of the fours...all at the same time.  No, no.  Don't envy me.  Please.
2)  About 9 months after she started talking, Ernie learned to read.  Sakes alive, the girl can read!


3)  Wonder Daddy passed his final CPA test.  For the first time since I've known him, he ISN'T studying at night.  Can't tell you the difference it's made in our home to have a daddy that isn't always off-limits to the kids.


4)  Went hog-wild on an "I can make that" bender.  Bread, cookies, snacks, cleaning supplies, toys, clothes...apparently I'm enough of a recluse to prefer making to shopping.


5)  Completed another year of almost all handmade gifts.  Again, with the no-shopping thing.





6)  Got better at canning.  Lots  better.  (plum jam, tomatillo salsa, peaches, peach honey, apple butter, marmalade, applesauce, apple chunks, fig preserves, figs in syrup, figs in water, blueberry jam... and all but the peaches and citrus were home-grown by me or family!  Hello free!)


7)  Went from 159 pounds to 139 pounds.  I love nursing.  I love cooking my own food.  I love fishing "these are never going to fit again" clothes out of the scrap pile and finding out they're too big.  I love the lovely ladies who joined my sister and I in our weekly weigh-ins in the weight-loss challenge this year.  I love being able to run without being weary.



From I Wonder Woman







From I Wonder Woman


8)  Started cloth diapering the baby.  Love love love the cloth diapers.



9)  After a long and dark winter, kicked the baby blues.  Remind me to never have another Fall baby, so long as we live in dark and dreary sun-free-in-the-winter climes.

10)  Called to serve in our local Spanish branch of the church.  Desperately praying to remember what I learned in high school.

11)  A mildly productive garden.  For me, that's a raging success.  Three tomatoes!  60 pounds of tomatillos! Plums from the tree before the squirrels ate them all!  Plus raspberries, blackberries, mint, lemon balm, basil, and 4 twenty-inch-long beans.  I won't mention the (many many many) crops that completely failed.  This is a new year, and we're only looking at successes!

Thank you thank you all for being here.  For being so supportive.  For being so generous in your own bloggy homes.  I'm looking forward to another great year!

And, after nearly two years of this bloggy business I've learned something: There are about 15 of you here to see ME...and hundreds of other visitors looking for tutorials.  Instructions.  Tips.  (And inexplicably, information on Amanda Barnes Smith.  Truly.  One of my top search results right now, right after Rolo Treats.)  And if there's something I love, it's telling people what to do.  So, look for more tutorials, instructions, and tips in 2010!  Oh, and look for more music.  Hopefully lots more music.

9 comments:

Alexandra said...

Happy New Year's to you and your family. :) Many blessings for the new year.

Great idea...I would do a year in review as well, but my life is not half as interesting as yours. It's been a humdrum year, but that's okay...sometimes it's nice that way.

My four year old daughter had about the same amount of words at age three. She turned four in September, and I've noticed a burgeoning of vocabulary. She's been getting a lot of it from Reader Rabbit on the computer. My son was even later with his speech, but he's kind of quiet in terms of personality, so not a big surprise. With homeschooling I don't have to get all head up about it(developmental time tables)...we just let the children take their own time.

Su said...

Happy New Year, Myrnie! I'm here to see YOU! And the tutorials are pretty awesome too :)

Teresa said...

Happy New Year...it has been fun coming to your site...what a wonderful outlook you have...looking forward to the music =)
Best of wishing for your new calling- (my hd is the HC over all the Spanish Branches in our Stake.}
Happy Day

Buckeroomama said...

Thank you for stopping my blog and letting me know about my being one of the Hilarious Outtakes winners; I didn't know!!

You are Aunt Lolo's twin, right? :) Why am I not surprised that you are "crafty," too? Seriously, I love that you "make" most of your gifts. I would dearly love to that, too. I think those make for the most special presents.

LunaMoonbeam said...

Love it.Love you.Love the weight loss success!!

CANNOTWAITTOGETMYTANLITTLEFAMILYBACKHOME!!!!!

Samantha said...

Happy New Year! How grand to celebrate all those successes!

Elizabeth said...

What a year you have had with your children's successes and your husband's completion of schooling (Oh, how well I know this! Years of it with my hubby!). I am happy for you! Can't wait to see what you do this next year.

Didn't you have a potato crop in trash barrels? Wasn't that you?!?

I'm looking forward to Spring planting, but not WEEDING!

God bless!

Ticia said...

What an amazing success to have your little one talking. And, I'm betting now she never shuts up! Or, that's what happened with my boys.

Meredith said...

Sounds like a fabulous, creative year! Here's to another year of growth and learning.

Now thinking about putting tomatillos in my own garden...