The guests are gone, the trash taken out, the gifts are 95% put in their places, and the laundry started. I'm not cleaning (vacuum, mopping, etc) until tomorrow when the Big 3 are back in school and the tree will remain up until at least the Epiphany. Not because I'm really into the whole Jan 6th thing but because I need a quiet evening after the kids are in bed to pack up all the ornaments and that probably won't happen until Friday anyway.
So that pretty much leaves looking back on 2005 and looking forward to 2006. I never manage to do any of that in the week between Christmas and New Years Day itself because we're usually traveling or I'm playing hostess at home. Jan 1st, I'm too busy with a hangover to think so Jan 2nd is my day of contemplation. (Aren't you lucky? *winks*)
The highlights of 2005 for me include: sewing quilts for each of the children, finally using my passport (to the Bahamas with Greg!), creating my website you see here, finding a new home in Maryland and moving all in two weeks, being asked to be the matron of honor in my sister's July 2006 wedding, learning to knit, becoming a Brownie leader, writing a 50,000 word novel in one month, and watching the kids reach new milestones in their lives.
The not-so-great parts of 2005 involve: going to therapy (necessary but not necessarily fun), scrapbooking less than 25 pages (probably more like 15, ick), finding a new home in Maryland and moving all in two weeks, and gaining about 5 pounds over the course of the year (and I was 10 pounds overweight at the beginning of 2005 in the first place).
Looking forward to 2006: I want to start scrapbooking again (hope to start by the weekend on this), lose those 15 pounds (will get a post of its own very soon) and on a similar note run a 5K race, get into a "better" routine (again, another post), join a local chapter of Project Linus (which I wanted to do last year and never got around to it), and in general aim to be a good mom, wife, friend, etc.
So not exactly "resolutions" but just little reminders to keep myself on target to reach those goals that make my life happy and worthwhile. Happy New Years!
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