Nope, my New Year’s resolution is NOT to go on a diet (although I’ll probably do it anyway) and it certainly isn’t Missy C’s goal (this, by the way, is what happened to the Gingerbread house!) !!
My inlaws are still here from Australia, they leave on Tuesday and I think the transition of all this grandparent attention to just me is going to be hard on the kids. The good news is that they start back to preschool the same week, so hopefully that will help. As we transition from Christmas to the New Year and back to a more regular schedule, I’ve thought a lot about regrets and the new year.
This year I lost contact with a lot of friends…some of whom I have some real regrets about loosing touch with. My old boss and his wife (years ago, they were like second parents) had been on my “to call” list for forever – when I finally did call two months ago, Barbara, the wife, had died of cancer just this summer.
Then, I had also lost touch with an old friend…the sad thing was that I KNEW his Dad had died of Cancer and I kept waiting for a “quiet moment” (yeah right) to get back in touch. As it turned out, he didn’t know how to contact me and so I didn’t get invited to his wedding this past summer. I feel so bad. There is one other set of friends that – well, I’m not sure if we’re “at odds” or have just lost touch, but I’m hoping it’s the latter. So, my first new years resolution is to get back in touch with them (I already have the other two) and to make sure this sort of thing doesn’t happen again. I find it’s so easy to get “busy”with our own lives and forget that others lives go on too.
My second resolution is to have more people over for dinner and make more friends…kind of an extension of the first resolution. With little kids it’s been easy to just pull myself out of that, but I miss it, now it’s time to get back in the social scene again.
3rd is to get really involved in learning more “tricks of the trade” with art quilting and crazy quilting. I love it…it’s a total escape from everything and an outlet for my creativity.
