What a Life!

It’s hard to summarize a year in just a sentence or two, so instead, I offer highlights.

• I taught Ben how to read. This was our first year of homeschooling, and I am loving it so much more than I had ever imagined.
• In fact, homeschooling should be an item of its own. Choosing curriculum and establishing a routine takes a lot of initiative and creativity. I have enjoyed every minute of it and look forward to continuing on into the new year.
• Miss Caroline joined our family. Once I was no longer pregnant, I realized how tired I had been the entire pregnancy. But we have our little girl now, and we’re so glad she’s here.
• I made lots of little sweaters and blankets and other handmade things for our precious little girl.
• I picked up my old reading habit again. I listened to a number of audiobooks on our daily walks during the spring, summer and fall. I also started checking out and reading books from the library for myself.
• I only paid $1.40 in library fines. We’ve developed quite a library habit this year, with close to one hundred books checked out at any one time.
• I served as Vice President/Program Director of the local knitting guild this year. It was fun, but now with three small children in my charge, I have happily passed those responsibilities on to other worthy and enterprising individuals.
• I have worked part time as a technical editor, working with knitting patterns. I’ve developed a clientele and enjoy working directly with designers.
• I played the piano for the children’s performances at a local church where the boys attend Sunday school. I also helped out during Vacation Bible School, helping herd forty preschoolers from activity to activity for a week.
• And if all that wasn’t enough, I survived surgery and general anesthesia when my appendix was removed early one Sunday morning in November. We are so blessed that it happened this year since I’d already met the [high] deductible with our health insurance.

Just thinking about all of that makes me tired…which is probably why I haven’t blogged much over the past year. It was a year of transition – a new baby and beginning our homeschooling journey.

And yes, the blog is back. Now that I’ve found my groove again, ideas for blog posts have begun popping into my head. I’ve missed blogging – I love writing – but it’s hard to write about things when they are changing. I’m hoping 2010 will be a year of ‘normal’ for us – it certainly would be nice for a change.

Here’s to a Happy New Year for all!