Well, not quite 12 days, but about a week of celebrating and visiting with family. Stretching the excitement out was nice for me because I was able to pace the gift wrapping, baking, visiting, and gift opening out so that no one day felt overwhelming. It hasn’t always been that way.
For the last few years we have had Marathon’s parents over for brunch – usually on the morning that we open our own family’s gifts. We didn’t do the two on the same day this year, and both mornings were so much more relaxing.
[Sudoku took the following shot a few weeks ago. Not until I saw it did I realize how few photos we have of just the two of us since having children.]
We’ve had our traditional new year journaling time. Marathon and I list the significant events of the year and rank them. We learn a lot about ourselves and each other in this process. We also look at goals (if any) we made last year and see how we came out. If goals didn’t materialize, we try to understand why. It’s usually a genuinely enlightening time for us.
Tomorrow we should be finally getting back into our regular routine, but alas, I need to grocery shop and run errands.
2008 is here, and I was sawing logs (like Doodle and Rosebud) while Marathon, Carman and Sudoku welcomed the new year playing the new favorite game – Mancala. Unfortunately, it’s a 2-person game.
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