Happy New Year!

My mom is here and we’re having a great time. It means I’m not paying much attention to the e-world though. I only get to see my mama for 11 days total before she heads back to Canada, several thousand kilometres from Turkland, so please excuse my absence from the blogoverse.

That said, I thought I’d hop on the computer briefly this evening. My mom is getting EcoKid to sleep, EcoDad is in bed with EcoBabe already, so I have a few spare minutes.

So… with necessary brevity, I bring you my New Year’s Resolutions. I’ve not made a point of making resolutions in the past, so I’m both skeptical and giddy about these, my first ever resolutions. And they are:

Gratitude Journal: Week Ten, Eleven, and Twelve

I am grateful for my friend Helena and her parents, Stefan and Kaska. I have wanted to write a Gratitude Journal with Helena as the subject for a long time now, but she’s been offline for months due to home renovations. I have a strong urge for my subjects to read what I [...]

Gratitude Journal: Week Nine

I am grateful for my mummy/mommy friends. I got a handful of emails from friends yesterday wishing me a Happy Mother’s Day. I even got one from a friend who is not a mum and who I don’t think has any plans of becoming a mum, but who has always been really supportive [...]

Gratitude Journal: Week Eight

I am grateful for my friend Mary B. I haven’t seen her since we graduated from library school in April 2004. I moved to Toronto and she moved back to Wisconsin. We keep in touch in fits and bursts via email. But the gift she sent Little Fart when he was [...]

Gratitude Journal: Week Seven

I had a good chuckle when I read my friend Jenn’s recent blog post. It was a Gratitude Journal entry and she said at the rate she was going, she’d take at least two years to finish it… parallel lives, I’m telling ya, Jenn! Parallel lives! I too am not getting my [...]

Gratitude Journal: Week Six

I am grateful for coffee. Yes, that’s right. Coffee. It may sound like an empty statement, but as the mother of two young children, it’s what I live by and for. When I get out of bed in the morning after a night of no more than two hours sleep and [...]

Gratitude Journal: Week Five

I am grateful for my online friends. That’s right, I have friends that I’ve met online. Many that I’ve never meet in “real” life (though I believe, to be honest, that online contact is just as real as any other.) I have a core group of 15 online friends who mean the [...]

Gratitude Journal: Week Four

I am grateful for my super spouse. He’s amazing. He’s a great partner. A great father. A great everything.I wake up every morning to the sound of him playing with the Kidlet. Sometimes he’s reading to her, sometimes he’s dancing around the living room with her (he does a mean [...]

Gratitude Journal: Week Three

I am grateful for my mom. She lives on the other side of the globe, but all the way from Canada she manages to make a difference in my daily life. Yesterday she delivered two huge bags of baby clothes to a friend of mine who just had a baby, clothes that I [...]

Gratitude Journal: Week Two

I am grateful for Family Art Afternoons. D came up with this fabulous and fun idea after I gave him and the Kidlet repurposed journals for Valentine’s Day. They are old Little Golden Books turned into journals with the original book pages remaining intact. Very cool. And D’s idea about [...]