Yesterday’s post was supposed to be about New Year’s, a recap and so forth. How great the year was. How much we loved being snowbound, how we spent a quiet New Years Eve with friends, celebrating East coast style and heading home to bed by 9:30.
A post about Resolutions, the one I made about either actually reading the books on my bedside table by New Year’s Eve or moving them off the table. (Done! I moved them off the table *sigh*)
A post about my family, and how gosh darn much I adore them. How every day with my husband is a gift, how every moment with my children teaches me something, about life or my own limits and about how freaking happy I really am.
Maybe a post about home made pizza. (Yumdumdelicious! Piizzza)
You know a year recap-py like post.
But the snow, it distracted me.
This morning I shoveled the stairs, and the walkway and the driveway and then I shoveled out the firewood.
Really it was time to. Even though I like the idea of being snowbound, and even though the snow is turning slushy and melting away. There is still a lot of compacted ice on the porch steps (scary) and in the driveway (bad news) and getting the car in and out of the driveway, is um, tricky. Scott has done it twice, I haven’t even tried. Plus the firewood, works better if it is in the woodstove, and not under the gutters that fell off the house and then were covered in snow. If you know what I mean.
This, the first Monday of 2009, started off well for the Stitch family, the boys geared up in abominable snowman outfits and we headed outside, the snow to mud ratio is about 2:12312441 so they were pretty dirty by the time I was done shoveling and messing around with firewood.
Baths all around.
Hope your first day back was as easy going as ours, and that there was less shoveling involved!
Jenica (our favorite new photographer) is having a contest. I’m sorry to say you don’t win anything but if you vote for our family picture (6) then we may win another picture of ourselves (we like to look at us. Pop over if you want, and check out her freaking awesome photo skilzz. Don’t worry, I’ll still like you if you vote for someone else.












































