Welcome to 2011

The new year came fairly uneventfully at our house.  We had a three day holiday from work, so we had lots of family time and we accomplished a lot around the house.  One thing I learned in 2010 was that I need to be super organized in the new year- there is never enough time in the day to accomplish what I need to do.  I struggle between taking time for myself and my family and keeping up with the chores.  With working 8-10 hours a day, commuting 2 hours round trip, cooking dinner, picking up the house, packing the next day’s lunches, and doing the dishes… laundry and dust seem to pile up more than I’d like.  And that spot of papers on the counter seems to be growing daily…  But honestly, I feel good about ignoring the chores and sitting on the floor playing with my baby.  We see him so little during the week that we cherish the time we have.

We had plenty of baby time this weekend.  We had a milestone occur on December 31^st- Rickybear pulled up to standing for the first time all by himself.  Previously, we can hold out or hands and he will reach out and pull to standing, but he has never initiated it and done it by himself.  He reached up and pulled on his dad’s shirt and there he was, so proud of himself.  We are so proud, too.  Since then he desperately wants to pull up on everything, but we don’t have much that is low enough for him to reach to pull up on!  He is living dangerously now. 

We had the best intentions to stay up for the changing of the years.  We even had a bottle of champagne ready.  Just two years ago we celebrated New Years at the levee in New Orleans and watched the fireworks over the water.  This year, we ended up being so tired that we went to bed slightly before 11pm, just in time to celebrate New Years with the New Yorkers. 

We are looking forward to what the new year may bring for us.