Holiday Wrap Up

ahhh... if you know me then you know about my tumultuous relationship with two certain people in my life.  This holiday season did not disappoint.  Some highlights:

• when I was in the garage, one said person told my 3 year old that I was gone and not coming back.  That's a great example of some FINE parenting!
• the other said person got entirely pissed off when I asked said person to grill up some turkey burgers for the 3 kids in attendance for xmas eve dinner.  "It was not planned" he said.  This is whilst I have spent the WHOLE day cooking up a special xmas eve dinner.  The rest of the evening was completely clouded by his bad mood and attitude.  My friend and I were very uncomfortable the rest of the evening.  Thanks for a GREAT xmas eve!
• one said person, who happened to get an ipad for xmas (I gave it early b/c I was so excited to give it) ignored the kids from the moment said ipad was opened.  Nice.
• other said person fed their dog bites of everything from their plate, but lost his mind when my 2 year old gave the dog a cracker.
• same said person cared more about the bowels of said dog more than having fun with children.

Why does ANY of this surprise me?  I'm not, it's just that time after time I have hope that "this time" will be different.  WRONG again!  

This year my goal is to stand up more to the insanity and only worry about my kids and myself.  When will I learn?  Am I able to get away from it without causing world war 3?  

On another note.

I am proud to say that I have wrapped up (technically tomorrow will be the last day) 41 weeks of project life (I started late, but once I started I kept going) and plan to start a fresh year of PL with 2013. It's a really great and EASY way to document your life and hardly takes any time at all, but the results are so cool.  If you want to know more, just let me know.

On yet another note...

My "one little word" for 2013 is going to be FRESH.  Unless I think of a better one in2 days.

• FRESH start
• FRESH new attitude
• eat more FRESH and natural vs. processed foods
• FRESH beginning to a new chapter in my life.
• FRESH.

What's YOUR "one little word?"

Happy 2012

O.M.G.

Seriously. I know it’s been a heck of a long time since I last blogged but these last few weeks/months have been a whirlwind! I can’t believe the holidays have come and gone. HAPPY 2012 everybody!

I am thankful for my healthy, happy family and what a great holiday we all had. The boys were spoiled… no surprise and I got to see my family back in Michigan. I haven’t “home” for Christmas in at LEAST 10 years. It was so cool!
The boys met their cousins and enjoyed playing with the. They enjoyed their first experience with snow. I think they had a blast.
We had a small hick-up in coming home (San Diego, home) from Michigan when we got to Denver. We knew we had a 4 hour layover, but we didn’t know that 4 hours would turn into 48 hours. It was an adventure to say the least and we survived it! It is good to be back to a normal routine and our own beds! We kicked off the new year in a bad way, so it can only get better from here, right?

Here’s to a great 2012. Good things are on the horizon… I can feel it! Let’s Go already!

Turkey day rated a "Big Turkey"

Not much unlike Rosie's new variety show.... my highly anticipated Thanksgiving dinner turned out to be a real turkey. Now... I was pretty proud of my cooking and especially my impeccable timing of all the side dishes and turkey. My shit was ON! No, it turned out to be a real turkey because apparently MY expectations were too high. Yes... I guess expecting that people would show up on time... oh wait, back up... expecting people to SHOW UP (yes, I had 3 no show's/no call's)... and show up on time was a bit too much to expect. Oh, then my expectation that the TV should be turned off during Thanksgiving dinner was too much to expect. My "audience" just didn't "get it" is what my BFF said to me. It's true. People did not sit where their personalized place card/pilgrim hats directed them to sit. Nope. Too much to expect I guess. So... my Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving was more like an evening with the Simpsons. Lesson learned. Oh, there is more to bitch about, but I'll stop there. I might get accused of being too sensitive or something... for gosh sakes... The food was good. That's about it. Oh, one more bitch... don't mind that my back hurt for two days afterwards... but don't worry... I did it to myself some would say.

What else? I stayed home (with a sore back) on Black Friday... good thing, some people got trampled to death... I would not be happy about that if it happened to me. I DID, however, venture out on Purple Saturday (I made up the part about Purple...) and let me tell you, I think I discovered the secret to shopping after Tday! Parking was a breeze, the malls were not crowded... I was in and I was out. Boom. Bang! I think all the maniac shoppers were pooped from Friday to go out on Saturday!

Today also marks December 1st, or the first day of "The 25 Days of Christmas" project I am playing along with Rachel and maybe even Tina? I'm not so sure I am motivated enough to post my previous days page every day... but I will post at the end, okay? Today was so very unexciting I almost wanted to give up already! I didn't and I won't... but that is exactly how BORING my day was.

How was YOUR first day of T25DOC?