Not Me Monday...is it over already?!?

Let me start by saying we did not have a super-fantastic

Christmas/New Year holiday.

Christmas was not the usual mad dash, last minute shopping

that it usually is, although it was not better than years past

-think; this year we were only still shopping the weekend before

versus still shopping on Christmas Eve in the past-

I know. Nice.

I did not, for a few days, let the house go to the point that I wanted

to close my eyes as I walked through it. This would not have

been seriously dangerous, as there were toys EVERYWHERE.

Anyone else not have a toy factory explode in their living room?

We did not have a nice family Christmas with no travel crammed

in anywhere. We usually go somewhere on a mini-vaca in the 2

weeks the kids are out. This year we opted to stay home. It totally

did not make the time seem to last!!

Having said that, however, we did not take a spur of the moment

trip to a fantastic, fun restaurant about an hour away. As we were

leaving the house we did not decide, also spur of the moment style,

to get a hotel room for that night and did not call our closest friends

to see if they wanted to do the same!

They didn't! (Except they really did!!)

It was not a great excursion, and I probably won't do a post

about it later in the week!

I also did not book our Disney vacation for this May-

and these same friends are not going at the same time!!

And I am not so unbelievably excited!!

It was not nice to be able to put our new timeshare to

work, not just for us, but for our friends too!

I am not one of those people who is kind of sad to see 2009 go.

I did not think 2009 was a pretty good year, and I really can't

think of anything in particular to complain about.*

*Sidebar: this is not a 'my-life-is-perfect-nothing ever goes

wrong-we-have-no-problems' bluff. I am not covering

up unhappiness or telling fairy tales. I am just saying that

in 2009 for us, there was more good than bad and I prefer to

remember it that way. This sidebar was brought on by the sudden

insurgence of people demanding 'totally honest blogging' and

'full disclosure blogging.' I try to do that as much as I am comfortable with,

but come on.

It's my life, my blog, and my prerogative to tell as much

or as little as I darn well please. Sorry if that sounded harsh.

We do not have 2 birthdays in our household this month, so it's

not possible that my baby is turning 13!!! OMGosh. Writing that

made it seem so much more real!! I'm not having trouble getting

my brain around that one!! Pray for me! :)

I am also not coming up on my one year blogiversary,

AND

my 200th post!!

I am not thinking I might just have to have one wicked

fun giveaway. You know, if I can get creative!! :)

More about that later.

Not Me's aside, I cannot believe the holidays flew by so

quickly. I was not ready for Paul to go back to work, or

the kids to go back to school!! Although, I must admit, I

am loving the reinstating(reinstatement??)of naptime!!

I hope everyone had a great holiday vacation as well.

TTFN,