Skip to main content

Goodbye 2011, Hello 2012

My babies are sleeping and I should be prepping/cleaning for our New Years Eve celebration but instead I am looking through this year's pictures.  2011 was a good year - here are some my favorite memories. 
the birth of our little lady
sunday afternoons spent with husbandie (no kids!)
an amazing vacation with friends
our 1st garden
watching my boys become best buddies
celebrating the final harry potter movie 
my baby sister's annual visit 
a rained out dinosaur party 
completed projects
our niece isabelle
time with old friends
picking apples on a rainy day
our niece wren

I always feel a little sad at the end of a year - how did it go by so fast?  But I'm also excited. I love making goals and thinking about what the new year may bring. Here are some of the things I hope to accomplish in 2012.
  • read through the new testament at least twice
  • learn to knit
  • turn on my sewing machine
  • create a homeschool space
  • finish decorating the kids' rooms
  • yell less
  • add a feature artist/composer component to our homeschool curriculum 
  • mail thank-you notes and birthday cards in a timely matter
  • work out on a regular basis
  • eat fewer oreos
I'm not sure how many of these "goals" I'll actually accomplish (eat fewer oreos has been my list for almost a decade, I should probably just give up, if only they weren't on sale so often maybe I'd have more self control... or maybe I'd just pay more). It's fun to plan though and to hope. What are you hoping the New Year brings? 

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment - you make me smile :)

Popular posts from this blog

A Little Red Cardboard Barn

We've finished our farm unit and are moving on to a new theme tomorrow - but before we do I wanted share the barn we made. The wooden farm animals came with a beautiful handmade ark that we gave Big Buddy for Christmas a couple years ago.  I would someday love to have a wood barn but it's currently not in the budget. So in the mean time we decided to improvise and make our own.  I stumbled upon this perfectly sized milk box (4 gallons per box) while subbing and thought it would be sturdy enough to handle play. Hubandie and the boys used an x-acto knife and wood glue to build a barn shape. to get the doors to fold out hubandie used an x-acto knife and scored the inside of the cardboard We then painted with a basic primer and outlined a window and a door with painters tape. cardboard is very porous so priming is a must if you want decent coverage Big Buddy however insisted that we add more windows so it...
140 comments
This post is a long one, click thru to see more »

Preschool Syllabus: Dr. Seuss

Normally I'd do a Dr. Seuss unit in March around his birthday. We had to do one now though because on Saturday Big Buddy and I going on a date to a  Dr. Seuss exhibit . The exhibit is only at the museum until January and I'm afraid if we don't go now we might not get the chance. We are of course reading lots of Dr. Seuss's books. A great advatage to studying Dr. Seuss in November rather than March is that all his books were available at the library. I also found a great children's biography which is perfect for preschoolers. Pebble First Biographies: Dr. Seuss  We've read it a couple times and Big Buddy loves reciting all the facts he's learned WRITING CENTER ADDITIONS big buddy's name in sand paper letters, coloring pages  & mazes from seussville.com skills practiced: fine motor, letter recognition, creativity,  reading comprehension LEARNING "TRAYS" -   I rotate these, setting out about four a day from which the boy...
131 comments
This post is a long one, click thru to see more »

Jack-O-Lanterns on the Fridge

Last fall I saw the idea for refrigerator pumpkins with face pieces in FamilyFun Magazine  and have been anxious to recreate them ever since. It was pretty quick and easy and since the only thing we didn't have on hand was magnetic sheets ($1.50 with coupon at Joann's) it was also very cheap. my supplies: magnetic sheets, orange & black construction paper, white pen, tacky glue *i know they have self adhesive sheets but my Joann's didn't carry them   glued (very messily) and ready to cut Both the boys were quite enthused when they discovered them after rest time :) Hopefully it will keep them entertained until we carve real pumpkins. 
249 comments
This post is a long one, click thru to see more »