A New Year...

I'm always excited about the new year....a new chance, a new start. A chance to get organized, to catch - up, to re-group. It's a good thing. I can't believe how quickly the break has flown by and now I am working tirelessly to get things around for the girls to go back to school on Monday. Mary is accelerating to 3rd grade...a big move in the middle of the year, but we know it is the best move for her. She is a little nervous, which I would expect ..so we've been working through that. We finished reading "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" this morning. What an awesome book. Every time I read it I see more and more in it. I think Mary was surprised to see tears welling in my eyes during the final chapter...but if you haven't read that book -- you need to.

We have had great family time over break. We've watched a whole bunch of movies -- I finally saw "The Dark Knight" -- what a great movie - yes, it was dark, but a great movie. We bought "Iron Man " which was one of our favorite movies from this past year -- and watched it two more times. We laugh out loud a lot during that movie -- so if you haven't seen it - you should!

I am thankful for the retail holiday to be over and am looking forward to resuming a more normal work schedule. I actually have 3 weekdays off this upcoming week, so I should be able to do some additional organizing once the kids return to school. I need to get my calendars changed over and update my address book -- but those tasks can wait 'til next week... We are using today (yes, I'm off work today) to go to the store and get what we need for school lunches (and to return all of the holiday pop cans - yes, we have bottle deposit in Michigan - and those cans and bottles add up quickly) and then a little family movie night. Star Wars Episode II is on Spike tonight...we watched Episode I last night.....

Happy New Year friends...and here's to a little more consistant blogging on my part in the upcoming year!