A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and has a safe and happy New Year!  The last few months for me has been full of quizzes, tests, note taking and taking care of sick kids!  For my birthday I got a gift card for a book store, which I just spent online.  The books shipped today which I can't wait for!  I am excited!  The books are for my embroidery machine.  I need to do some more learning about it so I can put it to good use instead of having projects that get messed up because of whatever mistake I made.  I was told there is a big learning curve when first introduced to the embroidery world.  I will share with you the books as soon as I get them! (This is so exciting for me, better than Christmas!)

This New Year's eve we will be driving teens to a big dance and bar-b-que in the new year with some awesome food.  Also some fireworks!

What do you do to ring in the new year?  Are you making any New Year's Resolutions or goals this year?

Miles Traveled

The end of this last year my gas guzzler, the family wheels, turned over 175,000 miles!  I look back to see how my family has grown, the laughs we've shared, what the struggles have been and see what the future holds for all of us.

 



We traveled miles in this car

as family to many destinations

some with hubby, mostly kids

to see the sights of home.

From Amicalola Falls Georgia

to sunny warm Arizona.

Tillamook Cheese Factory and Oregon Coast Beaches.

Finally home in the Pacific Northwest,

settled in again, where will this year take us.

 

Where will you go this year & how and what are your goals? 

 

Happy New Year!

I hope everyone had a Happy New Year! I stayed home with 3 kids and the hubby, the fourth one went out with friends.  We watched the different celebrations around the country on the news and then just before midnight our time the Seattle Space Needle firework show started on TV.  It was so fabulous I want to actually take my kids there when the youngest is a little bit older!  I want them to really enjoy it!

I've been really thinking about goals this year.  With all the violence happening in the world I've decided to keep a journal. I do have a journal online that I write in, but I have an actual book that I am going to use.  In this book the pages are going to be filled with funny things my kids say and do. Maybe I'll venture out and write things that nieces and nephews do too.  Family, that's the focus, something positive in these trial times.

I'm also going to set a craft goal a month.  This month is to finish my daughter's quilt for her bed!  I know if I share this goal with my readers I will actually get it done!

Happy New Year Everyone!  How did you ring in the new year?  What are your goals this year?