12.29.2010
new year!!!
welcome, 2011!
anyone have any good resolutions? mine are, in no particular order...
1. not go to T@rget all year. I tried this last year and made it to May (OK, maybe April), so this year I'm determined to last longer. Its a cost issue for me...i cant walk into that store and not blow $100, even if I'm going there just for popcorn and paper towels.
2. drink one bottle of good {expensive} wine each month of the year. My husband thinks this is a bunk resolution and not really a resolution at all, but I couldnt disagree more.
3. relearn to play the piano (explanation here)
4. go to church regularly, not just on holidays
5. take at least one mini vacation, sans kids, this year with the husband. I think I may have figured out where we are going, so I'm not sure this technically counts as a resolution. but, I figure until tickets are purchased and we get there, its still on the list & I can count it...
wishing you and your loved ones a fun and safe holiday & a peaceful new year...
12.22.2010
time to breathe...
and, last week after little C's dance class, she was in a little bit of an ornery mood and i wanted to take her pictures. her outfit is handpicked by her, and is pursposely converted to black & white because it is a lovely mix of retina-burning hot pinks, red, blues and a random bright yellow.
{singing}
wishing you all a beautiful holiday season!
12.20.2010
post-it notes & pianos
when i was interviewed by the fabulous Becky, i talked a bit about how this little post-it note was a catalyst for some changes that i have made in my life over the past two years. it is an important little piece of paper for me that I am revisiting this holiday season and making some changes to for the new year.
and just about the time that i decided i would come up with some fun, new resolutions, as well as some serious ones, i found another post-it note in a bunch of paperwork that i went through last weekend.
this post-it note is the piece of paper i took notes on the morning that my mother passed away. it would be my last phone conversation with her loving nurses about what they hoped to do to ease her pain and make her comfortable. and, at the time, i had no idea that it would also be the day she would join God and my dad in Heaven.
so, again, i find myself faced with a post-it note, at the seemingly right time in my life. and, although i'm sad and prepared for a difficult Christmas, i'm also really looking forward to my first, and most important, resolution of the year....
my mom loved music & my childhood was filled with music and instrument lessons, church choir, dancing to 45's, and seeing the Boston Pops. She was able to plan part of her memorial service before she passed away, and the thing she focused on wasnt the scripture readings or homily or any part of the Bible....it was the 3 hymns she wanted sung, with a specific request that the service end with Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, sung in a low bass voice.
I dont know why I never realized it before, but it was during the process of planning for her memorial that it just slapped me in the face...i got how important music was to her, and that she was the one who had instilled that love in me. In the subsequent few weeks that I have been feeling blue, a little window into my past keeps opening wider and wider, and leads me back to my childhood.
so, resolution #1 in honor of my mom...relearn to play the piano. santa is bringing a keyboard and i'm filling the bench with mozart, bach, beethoven & the beatles (for little C and me).
and, if i could have figured out how to convert the .wma file into an mp3 and then figured out how to get music on here, i would have posted Swing Low Sweet Chariot, sung to piano music in a low bass voice, for you. but i couldnt figure it out.
you'll just have to trust me when i tell you it was beautiful.
(and if anyone can help me figure this out, i would love to share it...)
12.13.2010
yikes
every night after her bath, I find that a barbie massacre has occurred.
there are different variations of the massacre, with different barbies on any given night, but the outcome is always the same. the most disturbing ones are the ones who's poor knees are bent back so far it looks like she chopped them right off.
and, because i love Dexter, I am starting to worry about what this means for her future....
12.08.2010
12.07.2010
o christmas tree....
marching to her own drum
and now i'm glad that i'm paying for dance class :)