Whew!  Well, how has 2012 been for you so far??  For me it started out with a bit of a bang – THE FLU.  Yuck.  It was inevitable it would flow through our house, as my husband has been fighting off symptoms for weeks without actually getting it, and his side of the family had it quite bad over Christmas.  So my time was Sunday night, which put me out all day Monday and most of Tuesday… today was back to real life – trying to get too much done, feeling like I got nothing done.

As far as the flu goes though, I do have to say I was okay with it for a couple of reasons:

1.) it got me a couple of pounds closer to my loose-the-baby-weight resolution

2.) it’s better than what has happened January 1st the past 2 years… 2 years ago Jordan’s hamster of 2 years, George, died New Years Day.  Last year his third of three goldfish died New Year’s day.   Plus, a couple of days before this past Christmas, hubby and I thought his new hamster of 2 years, Iron Man, had died.  We brought Jordan out of bed, told him, he cried for him, we had to say a prayer (!), and we all agreed we would let Iron Man spend his last night in his cage… the next morning Iron Man was running around perky as anything… Jordan called it our Christmas Miracle!!  He would have been heart-broken had he died anyways on New Years Day.  Besides Iron Man, the only pet we have left is our adorable puppy Cody, and we would have all been crazy heartbroken had he died, so for that I’d take the flu any day!

How about New Years resolutions?  Did you make any?  I’d love to hear about them if you did!

Mine, as I mentioned, is to work a little harder at those sticky little pounds that hang on after having a baby, but the big one for me this year is to try to make our home more functional.

We really have a bit of a hard time with our home.  We bought it almost 9 years ago, because it was a great price, and would do well for all the ideas we had for it.  It was also very much a fixer upper.  Over the years we have rented out the downstairs,  I then had a business downstairs, and now we have changed it all to family space.  But we still can’t figure out how to make the house function well for us.  Number 1 problem is we all have our “projects” so hubby’s tool boxes are everywhere, my project supplies and paints are everywhere, Jordan’s Lego and crafts are everywhere, and evidence of Anna’s storm is everywhere… I’m sure you know how it is… I’m just hoping this year I will figure it out.

Last year my New Year’s resolution was to get our lives organized.  And overall (except for when the kids are out of school – does anyone else have this problem?!) I have gotten it pretty much under control… but I’ll share more of that another day… for now I’ve “talked” enough… I have way too many loads of laundry to fold!!

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