We are LOVING being snuggled together at home today! Daddy has already played outside with Sam, beating the freezing rain, and we have already enjoyed our snow cream! Thank goodness that this time, we were home and had all the right snow gear!
Now, the only question that remains is will we have another snow day tomorrow??? We say, bring it on!
I just finished reading to Sam and bless his heart he always falls asleep during the last book. But the first book we read tonight was Llama Llama Misses Mama about a little llama and his first day at school. Sam and I talk a lot while we read together. This was tonight’s conversation (oh, how I wish you could hear his sweet voice):
Me: Sam, do you ever miss your mama, like Llama Llama misses his mama?
Sam: No.
Me: No? (sniff, sniff)
Sam: No.
Me: Oh…that makes me a little sad.
Sam: You should be happy, not sad.
Me: But I miss you sometimes when I’m at school.
Sam: Oh. Well, I do miss you sometimes at Mimi’s house.
Me: You do? (Yay!)
Sam: Yes, but I miss you on Wednesdays but not on Fridays.
Me: Hey! I’ll take that!
Today, 1/1/11, I turned 38. And this year, more than any other, I truly do believe that the coming year is going to change my life in so many ways. This is the year that…
…I will become the woman I want to be with the body that satisfies me.
…I will become the wife I want to be.
…I will become the mother I want to be.
…I will become the cook I want to be.
…I will become the photographer I want to be.
…I will become the blogger I want to be.
…I will become the teacher I want to be.
…I will become the friend I want to be.
…I will become the organizer I want to be.
…I will become the reader I want to be.
…I will become the creative soul I want to be.
…I will become the housekeeper I want to be.
…I will become the coupon master I want to be.
…I will become the money manager I want to be.
All my years so far have been spent exploring and dabbling and as I get dangerously close to 40, I have a strong desire to find myself and know myself deeply, to be the me I want to be. I want to focus my ADD brain and all my energy on identifying the obstacles that hold me back and overcoming them.
This will be the year of me.
We are celebrating New Year’s this evening along with my birthday since Scott will be gone tomorrow afternoon and evening. Scott cooked my favorite, most decadant dinner—fettucini alfredo! He cooks it for me at my requests every year! We have all enjoyed sparkling grape juice in fancy glasses and then fireworks followed by cake. Now it’s time to watch the Gamecocks play their hearts out against Florida State. It has been such a great day!
Happy New Year to you and yours!
