delayed

So all the cool kids have posted their year-in-review-goodbye/riddance-2007-welcome-2008-this-is-how-much-I've-changed-in-a-year blog posts here and here and here and here and here.

Me? Not so much. Missed the New Year's Eve post. Missed the New Year's Day post. So here I am, the day after New Year's Day, filling in the missing pieces. How very typical of me. At least I'm consistent with my tardiness and procrastination...

So.

2007.

A big year. A year filled with hope and wishes and dreams to get healthy, get focused, and balance out the elements of my life.

How did that all work out for me? Pretty much like trying to suck water through a straw when the lemon seed is stuck inside.

We had fantastic times, times I want to remember. I started the blog January 25th, found out I was going to be a published scrapper, fell in love with the most beautiful puppy-girl ever, went to entirely too many concerts, celebrated Griffin's 10th birthday, spent my first wedding anniversary at Six Gun City (yeehaw...), started to think about expanding our family, found out it would become a reality only to discover that it was all just a cruel tease... and after that I pretty much let the last part of the year slip away from me.

I didn't intend for it to go that way. This year there were no Christmas decorations, aside form our ghetto Wal*mart tree and a handful of ornaments. No Nutcracker collection this year. No Christmas Village. I just didn't have it in me.

New Year's Eve was spent playing games with just a few family members. Griffin fell asleep on my parent's couch and would up spending the night. Bob and I were home at 11:55, watched the ball drop, shares a kiss, then went to sleep.

I was ready to say goodbye to 2007. It sucks that after a year of so much fun and activity and love that it had to end the way it did for me. I'm thankful for the great things that happened over the last 12 months, turning over a new leaf is looking pretty fantastic right now.

I made a simple layout that pretty much sums up the 2007 year. There is a blue envelope where I've tucked a journal entry about all the ups and downs, the mixed emotions, the happiness and hurt, the needing to be done and move on. I'm glad I made the layout. I'm glad I will always know my feelings are tucked inside it. I'm ready to move forward.

What about 2008? Do I have any resolutions? No. Making resolutions is totally setting myself up for failure, so it's just not gonna happen. We'll see where 2008 leads me, and in the meantime I will try my hardest to quit the drive-through habit and eat more veggies. I'll try to pay more attention to what's important rather than what's distracting me at the moment. I'm going to try to love and support the people in my life that mean the most to me, even when it's hard. I'm going to try. Just try. That's all I can commit to.

Comments

[jenn shurkus]

sounds like a fab plan ;)

[erin]

1. You so tardy.
2. I was beginning to think you dropped off the face of the earth.
3. But then you called me this morning.
4. And apparently blogged last night AFTER I checked your blog.
5. My flowers are stil oh so pretty.
6. And I'm your favorite.