Yae
2013!
Here
we are in a new year, and I think it’s going to be a great one! This year I am
going to try to keep up with the blogging. Probably not daily, but hopefully I
can keep up with it regularly. This last year was pretty eventful (which I will
give you a rundown in a minute), and I look forward to a lot more changes this
year.
This
past year has been an eventful one. On this day last year we were exhausted
from moving into our new house. That was a busy time. I didn’t realize that we
had so much junk! Since then, we have purged quite a bit and acquired even
more. This house no longer feels so empty. It is starting to feel like a home
instead of a place to store our furniture. As part of my new resolution I will
be trying to get more articles written in my other blog at https://evolution-of-a-home.blogspot.com,
but that’s for another time.
Sophie
turned 4 last January. She’s getting to be such a big girl now. I can hardly
believe it. For her birthday we went to see Beauty and the Beast in 3D at the
theater; just me and her. I think that we’re going to make that a yearly thing.
This year we are going to play hookie and have a beauty day. We’ll go to the
mall and get our hair and nails did, and since she is turning 5 this year, it’s
the year that she can get her ears pierced. She also wants to have a birthday
party, and Chris suggested going to the aquarium in Atlanta, but I’m not sure that
that is going to work out. We’ll see. We might just end up having a small party
here instead.
We
had a family friend live with us for 4 months while she was trying to get on
her feet. It was definitely an adjustment for us, but I think that it has
brought us closer as a family, at least for me. I came to realize that the
reason that Chris and I have been able to work through so much together. The
more frustrated that I became with our house guest, the more I realized that I
love being around my family over anyone else. No matter how irritated I get
with them, they are part of me and I want nothing more than to spend the rest
of my life with them.
My
dad came out to visit over Easter. We had a good time, but it was a short
visit. We did get to die and hunt for Easter eggs, and do the whole basket
thing. Dad even got them a police car to drive around in because he felt bad
for not getting them gifts throughout the rest of the year. They love the car
though. We even took it out today, but the battery died, so our drive was cut
short. It’s on the charger right now and hopefully we can take the car back out
tomorrow if the weather holds.
Sophie
started preschool this past August. That’s still taking some getting used to, I
have to admit. I can’t believe that I have a child in school! She loves it
though. She took her beginning of the year assessment the first week of school
and got 97 out of 113! According to her teachers, most of the kids only score
between 40 and 50 on that test. By the end of the year they are shooting for 87
out of 113… So we are shooting for 113! Woohoo! My little girl is awesome!
We did have an issue with their field trip
though… Liam and I tagged along so I could help out as a chaperone on their
field trip to Steed’s Dairy in October. The trip went great; no incidents, but
on the ride home there was one little, minor thing… No big deal really… She
just decided to open the emergency window! Yeah, I know… Why did it have to be
my kid? Because that’s my luck.
Anyway…
Liam
turned 3 in August. He had a small birthday party in the backyard. Dad wasn’t
here, so Kaleb and Steve helped me barbecue in the rain and the kiddos all
played upstairs while us big kids visited downstairs. He got some great gifts,
but he was a bit bummed that Dad was gone. What can you do? Since then, he has
just exploded into being a big kid. I notice that any time we are with older kids,
that no one has any idea that he is only 3 years old. He is just as advanced,
if not more so, as any of the rest of them. We’ve been to a few things at
Sophie’s school and once I pick him out of the crowd of 4 and 5 year olds, I
always get asked why he’s not in school. I love it. It makes me so proud of my
babies.
We
got a new car for Christmas. It’s freaking awesome! It’s a 2008 charcoal
metallic GMC Acadia SLT. It has about 77K miles, but it has most of the bells
and whistles that we were looking for, the miles are actually lower than about
90% of the cars that are the same year and model, and it was within our price
range. So excited!
So…
We’ll
see how this year goes. Hopefully it will be full of wonder and happiness.
Happy New Year!
