Welcome 2012
Sunday, January 1, 2012 at 4:44PM Remember when you were like, 10 and 2012 was the distant future? Remember when the future meant flying cars, meals in pill form and being an adult. Remember when you thought being an adult meant you could stay up as late as you want and eat cookies and ice cream for breakfast? Then you got to college and actually ate cookies and ice cream for breakfast after not going to sleep at all only to find out that it's a recipe for disaster, and that was the moment you began to get old. Then 2012 comes and you look around thinking, "there is no way i can be 32 already and whose kids are these?" Maybe that is just me.
Really though, where does time go. At this time last year I had no idea that I would spend the majority of 2011 pregnant with Arya, it's crazy to think about that. One year can bring a lot of change, be on the lookout. I would post a 2011 year in review but that seems like way more work then I have time for right now. And, in the interest of full disclosure and complete honesty, my memory kind of sucks; a side effect from an over indulgence in too many drugs in my twenties.
What I do remember is that early last year I found out I was pregnant with Arya, we bought a car, we bought a house, we moved. Coraline went from walking to running, from babbling to speaking in sentences, to becoming a full fledged toddler (ie tantrums). Arya was born at 8lbs 5 ounces, giving me the chubby cherub baby that Coraline was not. We took in 3 cats from the street because we are bleeding heart liberals or maybe because of something else I can't put my finger on. I continued to miss my family that live everywhere but Boston and my best friend who selfishly went to grad school in the south. I became Vice President of the Boston Babywearers and built a website for Growing Up Children's Resale Boutique. I attended my first and thus far only blog seminar. I did a terrible job at blog upkeep and friend correspondence during pregnancy. I attempted to get back in the swing of things.
I have done a lot in life, I have lived all over the country, travelled and met people that you would believe were straight out of a Kurt Vonnegut story, so I am definitely an "expect the unexpected" kind of thinker. I do know some things will not change in 2012...I will still sit in my house and get a panic attack because I will never have enough time or energy to clean it. I will still have mountains of laundry to wash and fold and put away. Most days will be very "lather, rinse, repeat" in nature. But my daughters will continue to make me laugh with perfectly timed jokes, smiles and dancing. The future...where I won't hold out for a flying car but would settle for a gps that actually work. *
* I feel slightly elitist with this gps comment even though it is true. In 2001 I drove from Pennsylvania to Michigan and back again using a map...a map that was printed on paper which came from trees! I drew the route in red crayon. gps. haha.
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