And, I might add, that since this year's holidays were rather trying for me and I don't want to relive the chaos, I will hold fast to my opinion and not rehash the insanely fast and furious holiday happenings of the Jackson clan. If you must know ... ask me when you see me next. Instead, I will say that they went by more quickly than I wished, and since this last Christmas was not one of my favorite years, I would rather move on to the New Year's resolutions and whatnot.
Ok ... I must make mention of my son's first Christmas being not everything it was for Mercy. First of all, Gracen was sick with a cold and cutting a tooth (blood-blister included) all at once. But then there was the whole Family Christmas event that this year included three more little ones, mine included. Christmas Day was so much more relaxing than year's past. The annual cooking, which I love, and then the Yatzee game that lasts until dark. Still, it was hard to escape that my little man was under the whether, which eventually turned into an ear infection ... the first between my two kids, which makes me think he'll take after me ... I get them all the time.
Last year I listed what I accomplished the prior year and then what I hoped to accomplish in 2009. This year I will review what I said I would do ... Ha ... and whether or not it was accomplished, and then list my resolutions for 2010 tomorrow. A new decade. Whoa!
2009
- I will go through all closets and give to a needy family anything that I don't wear, use, etc. Accomplished, but only at a snails pace. This means, I have to do it all over again.
- I will read and pray more. Well I definitely prayed more. Reading has still been a difficulty. Hey! Don't judge me. I mean ... you haven't seen me blog much either, so I would say reading and blogging are also on my list for next year ... assuming I regain the time I need to do them (my disclaimer).
- I will have another baby (a BOY) This was inevitable. The kid had had to come out one way or another. Still, learning to manage a second baby and a boy to boot, was definitely an accomplishment I will allow myself to relish in ... even if I still have a long way to go.
- I will learn what it means to juggle an infant and a toddler, oh ... and all the house stuff too. Ok ... not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but definitely better. I can say that I have stopped crying ... most days ... and really can run my errands as needed. I just have to time them right and make sure they only take me two hours at a time. Mercy has been a trooper! I will thank her later for this ... when she is old enough to not ask, "But why?"
- I will hopefully move (this one I count as tentative, but truly a hope) NOPE ... Not yet. Keep praying.
- I will take Mercy to the park more. I tried. I really did. With the extreme heat and then Gracen needing to eat more often than Mercy did, and with all the friends who had crazy schedules and additional babies of their own, this one worked for the first half of the year, but by September, it had all but ended. I will try again.
- I will get another Disneyland Annual Pass (ok ... this is more of a hope). We did it!!! Thanks to Disney for creating a payment plan.
- I will go camping as much as possible Only made it out one week, but we did get to go to a cabin in Big Bear twice, and a wonderful trip to Colorado where we stayed at a cabin right on a small river. We went fishing everyday and had a blast with the Padilla's (Tim's sister's family). Thanks Ronnie and Sue.
- I will be a better version of me. Still feel like I didn't do this part very well. I suppose if you see it as a huge transitional year for us, than you may forgive me for not fully achieving this one. I will add that having a new little one to care for and a particularly intense two-year-old made "me time" near impossible. I keep repeating to myself, "It's only for a season." This is my mantra ... which I fully believe in and will grow past ... eventually. In the mean time, this one, too, stays on my list.
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