Christmas 2011!!!!!

 Christmas was pretty peaceful this year...  I thought is might be a bit lonely because it was the first Christmas in quite some time that the kids and I would be spending alone.  It turned out that I didn't feel lonely at all.  I felt calm, rested, and grateful...  The kids and I enjoyed our usual Christmas Eve "Feast" of appetizers, then watched old movies on TV in front of our little fire.  Little A practically begged to go to bed early so that Santa would come, and the other two raised no objections to that at all.  Santa came and delivered fairly early this year...  Not much to put together... thankfully.

Of course, the kids woke up at the crack of dawn on Christmas morning.  They were VERY excited by their gifts!!!  D spent the entire day building Legos, and the girls spent the entire day playing Barbies and playing with their American Girl dolls...  Very few fights between them occurred....  Only one meltdown occurred (and of course that happened during a brief visit by some friends... as usual).  All in all it was a very nice holiday.   :)

Finally, Another Post...

It is getting close to a new year...  Time for new beginnings... Resolutions... Every year I make the same resolutions and never keep them.  Just like most people around the world.  Exercise more, quit smoking, be happier, etc, etc.  So I'm not going to even write down my resolutions this year.  I do have them, of course, but no sense in repeating them like I do every year.  I will just quietly work on my goals for the new year... and hope that I have the strength and will power to reach some of them. 

I have to admit though, I am looking forward to 2012...  2011 was not the best year for me at all--- lots of struggles... mentally/emotionally, financially, and physically (Haha, but most years I struggle mentally/emotionally) ...  So maybe the next year will be better.   I am going to count on that.  I'm going to happily kiss 2011 goodbye, and move on....

Oh yeah, and I'm going to start posting again... Heehee.