We spent New Years around a table, just like the French like to do. Yes I suppose I'm gradually becoming one of them. It felt right though, just the four of us and me running up and down the steps to the kitchen cooking up a three star dinner. The kids decorated the table with leftover glitter from my friend Dee's Christmas table and we wished them both Happy New Year at nine o'clock, shhhh...don't tell,they're too small to know yet! Then Seb and I cuddled up on the sofa, champagne in hand to watch a Jason Bourne movie we totally forgot about buying in Mexico. I shielded my eyes a lot because I hate violent movies but I LOVE spy movies so I had to watch through parted fingers. Then we turned off the film and wrote out our resolutions and regrets. We both had a big pile of each.My resolutions I wrote out on New Years were more like a list of *wishes* for the New Year, things I'd like to have happen without much work. This is just a little selfish list of things I'd like for ME to make me happier but that I'll definitley have to work at getting. Maybe there isn't much difference!:
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Make and buy better food for my family. I've started this week and it's really fun being back into cooking again even in my grungy underground kitchen.
Plan and take more vacations. Cheap vacations, dragging Seb kicking and screaming someplace. anyplace.
Work hard to help finish our house. I'm the resident painter but I need to learn to tape drywall so that's my next goal.
Do some nice things for my neighbors. I have such nice people living around me. It takes a huge crisis to see who you can count on and how much. It will be my turn to give back to them this year for sure.
Grow my garden! I can't wait to expand on what I started last year and wage slug warfare.
Sew and read and take photos of course...
Blog more about my day to day life. It seems a bit dull to me sometimes to write about my daily life but I think I'll appreciate it later. Sorry in advance to anyone reading!
6 comments:
at 9 pm, it's new year's SOMEWHERE in the world, hey?!
wishing you the best, and hailing your intentions to make life even better in 2010...
Bonne annee pour toute la famille, mais PLEASE, changez les serrures de votre maison, en toute priorite!
Take care of you...
These all sound lovely to me, Chris. We'll have to share garden stories-- we won the slug war last year, but lost the bird war.
I never think your day to day life sounds boring. I love reading about it. I think I last commented when Obama won the election, so I'm obviously not much of a commenter but just wanted to let you know I enjoy your writing so much.
From South FL
All of these sound fabulous!
I try not to make any resolutions of the year because ... it may be hard to follow...
You did a lot anyway...
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