Sayonara, 2008!
When I sat down to write this, I thought 2008 had been a fairly uneventful year.
Then I looked back through the archives, and realized how difficult it was to compress the highlights into a readable post. I’m going to do my best.
Laurel denounced Michelangelo as a jerk. I quit working full-time again, but stayed in school (and finished the program). We visited Springfield, IL, and ate horseshoes. We enjoyed our very first discernable earthquake, followed by another within a couple of days. We went to Bull Shoals Lake for a really awesome weekend. We saw the Raconteurs in concert! Laurel proclaimed the United States government is ‘kind of stupid,’ then went to sleep-away camp to brood about it. Ethan yelled, ‘FUCK!’ when he dropped blueberries on the floor. We nearly bought a house, then told the sellers to go pound sand with their unreasonable bargaining (or lack thereof) before the deal was done. We went to Branson for a week, which was about all we needed of that. We did our part for the lousy economy by purchasing a hyper-expensive sewing machine, a pop-up camper and pickup truck. We picked peaches and apples and helped roast meat in a pit. We welcomed James to our family. Laurel donated her hair to Locks of Love, and Greg donated his to Halloween revelry. Ethan stopped crapping in his pants. Laurel took up fishing and running, and we ran our first official 5K together, followed by several unofficial ones. We set many, MANY Christmas lights to music.
I have never been more proud of my children or my family as a whole as I have been this past year. Sometimes I forget how much we do as a family and I think we're pretty lousy parents, but then I look back at the blog and see how many memories we're creating, in the hopes our kids will cherish them -- eventually.
In these tough economic times, we are so, so very fortunate to be able to live as we do and enjoy that which we love. I am certain I speak for the family when I say we hope others are able to enjoy the same good fortune in the year to come.
Here’s to an equally rocking 2009.
Cheers!
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