Happy 2012!

"We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but potential."

~~Ellen Goodman~~

Hope the coming year is filled with inspiration, family, fun and much success at what ever you take on!

From my Nest to yours, have a Happy New Year!

See you in 2012!

Catching Up

Happy 2011 to you! I hope you had a relaxing, family filled holiday. We spent a warm and relaxing week in Turks and Cacaos with two other families. {I think i spelled it wrong} We soaked up the sun and dipped our toes in the surf { i'd post pictures, however i can't find that magic cord that takes the pictures from Ms. B's camera and puts 'em in the computer! Darn technology} trust me, it was magical.

We celebrated Maximus' fifth birthday {he looks worn out, doesn't he!} It's not easy being five.

This was his gift... and guess who took it! Doodle did it.

This year we spent New Years at home. It doesn't get much better than sitting at home in your Jammie's eating lobster and hash browns. Mmmm.

The kids had home made mac and cheese

We ate lots of this {o.k. I ate lots of this}
We played this
Turns out, it's Rylee's favorite show!

And we got our shiny on. My favorite New Years are always the ones that we stay at home with our family.

Now the kids are back to school, i've taken down all the holiday stuff, and i've cruised around blog land catching up on all you've been doing. So, what projects are on your list? What crafts are you working on? This year i'm determined to finish, yes, finish all the room projects i've started, but maybe got a little distracted and never finished. Yikes! it's out there, now i really have to do it!

Here's the run down

1. Paint kitchen
2. Window treatments for kitchen
3. Swap out light shades in kitchen
4. paint hutch in family room
5. order fireplace surround
6. window treatments for family room
7. shelves for sweet man's office
8. decorate sweet mans office
9. sit down and have a big glass of wine
10. window treatments for Ms. A's room
11. rug for Ms. A's room
12. trim and new doors for hall
13. sit down and have a good cry over how much this is all going to cost
14. hang family photo's in hall
15. paint trim on living room window and front door
16. Plan Ms. A's Bat Mitzvah that i've done nothing for and is sneaking up in MAY!

Okey dokey, i'm already totally over whelmed...think i'll take that glass of wine NOW

Hope you have a great Wednesday!

i'm going to go cry now

just a little

Happy New Year!

Happy 2010! It seems just the other day we were celebrating 2009 at a friends house eating great homemade Italian food, sipping our stoli doli's and cleaning up barf. Yea, good times. Ms. B had just eaten a hearty portion of gnocci when she started feeling 'funny'. Thank goodness she had enough sense to head to the bathroom where she proceeded to decorate the room with Agnes' wonderful gnocci. Poor kid had a seven year puke-free ride until that night. We welcomed in 2009 and the stomach flu. Blech.

Hopefully this years celebration will be different (oh please let it be different!) Tomorrow we start by saying good bye to my best friends father. A sweet man of 80 years, husband, father, grand father and friend. You'll be missed Ike. xoxo. Then tomorrow night we'll get together with a few neighbor families for a little well deserved rowdiness and fun! Whoo hoo! O.K. so in past years i've made a lame attempt at New Years resolutions (never keeping them) and have decided that this year NO lists of things i'll never do. So this means i get to keep that extra twenty pounds i can never seem to loose and never figure out all the settings on my camera. Catch up on scrap booking? Nah, pressure's off! Become a better wife, mother, friend? Honey, that's just part of everyday growth. Cut back on Diet Coke? Ack! I couldn't be that great wife, mother or friend without it! Don't be silly! Every day has room for improvement, baby steps. Why pressure ourselves to do it all in one big crazy list? I hope this coming year finds you happy, healthy and resolution free! Happy New Year!