Little Things: WHAT--2009?

1.18.2009

WHAT--2009?

Being almost 9 months pregnant and with all the new challenges that a 2 year old brings to going out, I generally try to avoid too many unnecessary outings. As such, I sometimes forget that we are in a new year. I was writing out something the other day and as I wrote 2008 and then corrected my mistake I realized the world around me is moving on from day to day, month to month, year to stinkin' year with or without me. Don't get me wrong, we rang in the new year as we always do with Ryan and Jolea and lots of food and treats. We went to Jolea's house and actually spent the night. We figured why stay up until midnight, wake up a sleeping kid to put him in the cold car and drive home, when we could just sleep over, sleep in and go sledding the next day! So that's what we did. Jolea and I went to bed promptly after ringing in the new year and the Ryans' stayed up until 3:30 am playing the PS3. The next day after a late breakfast we bundled up the kiddos and walked down to the park and went tubing. Max seemed to enjoy himself and especially liked swinging and sliding.

But somehow after ringing the new year I suppose I tucked away the fact that it was actually 2009. I didn't even make a resolution list as I usually do. I mentally noted that I would like to stop with the Diet Cokes and eat better; that was quickly followed by another mental note--I have to relinquish my love for soda, chocolate, and pretty much everything else I love in a few short weeks as I begin nursing. Why punish myself now for the sake of starting a resolution with the new year? I mean, this whole year is going to be a post-partum resolution. I've mentioned the diet, but there is the returning to exercise (which I am looking forward to but dreading the pain), the giving up even more sleep than I already am, the committing myself to getting the baby, his big brother, and his parents on some sort of routine, etc. I figure why make a list. It's pretty much made itself for me.