Favorite bits of 2008:
- Watching my two kids become friends and learn to play together
- Visiting friends and relatives, and being visited by friends and relatives
- Watching my kids and their friends change more and more from babies into little people and seeing more and more of their individual personalities
- Seeing Mike enjoy his job
- Trying out new crafts and activities with my kids
- Watching Emma learn her numbers, letters, colors, and shapes
A few New Year’s resolutions:
- Find places to keep all those odds and ends that get stashed in random places
- Potty train Emma
- Get Johnny to eat more solid food
- Be more patient with cooking/baking that involves a rolling pin
- Take the kids outdoors more
- Get the kids to sleep through the night better (closer to achieving this with Johnny than Emma, unfortunately)
MaryAnne is a craft loving educator, musician, photographer, and writer who lives in Silicon Valley with her husband Mike and their four children.
Great goals! I’d love to get my kids potty trained and sleeping better too! Here is to both of us!
Just a completely irrational aversion to baking anything that involves rolling pins…
Do you have something against rolling pins? :-)
What great plans for the new year! Potty training…we’ll be going there again in just a couple of weeks with my about-to-be 3-year-old! We decided on the reverse psychology approach and told her that she wasn’t allowed to use the potty until she turned 3. We’ll see how it goes. :-)
My January goal is to have my baby sleep through the night-I need more sleep!! :) Great idea to post about your favorite happenings from 2008!Happy New Year!
Those are great resolutions. I especially like the one about sleeping through the night. I’m REALLY looking forward to that, but haven’t experienced it more than a handful of times since I got pregnant in 2007!
Last year I said that my favorite memory was watching my girls become friends they were one and three at the time. Isn’t it the best when they start to really play together. Happy New Year! PS The other day my four year old and I were looking at your blog and she asked Mom is this “Thrifty Crafty Mama” or “No Time for Flashcards”? I just laughed didn’t even know she knew the names of the blogs I follow.