Old Years and New Years

[image by Katratzi]

I haven't been blogging well lately. (You may have noticed. Heh.) So...I think I owe you guys an explanation.

At the beginning of November, I found out that I was pregnant. I felt tired and sick, so I didn't blog much.

In the middle of December, I found out that I wasn't pregnant anymore. I felt tired and sick (still), and a lot of other things. Blogging was not on my list of priorities at all.

And now...most of the time, I feel like I'm making a pretty good recovery. And I feel like blogging again. So here I am.

So, New Year's, anyone? There are a lot of changes coming up for us in 2013--Isaac will be graduating from technical college, hopefully finding a job, and moving us who-knows-where. It's hard for me to think about goals and self-improvement when I can't see past big, scary, hairy changes.

But. You know how a lot of people will say, "I hope 2013 will be awesome!" Hoping for a great new year is good, but I think we can all do better than that. Life is what you make it, right? So isn't 2013 going to be what you make it? Sure, you might get sick, your parents might die, your house might burn down, the economy might NEVER EVER EVER recover, and the government might knock on your door and take your guns and your children away. (Uh...maybe.)

But if you really believe that happiness depends on your attitude (and I do believe that), then 2013 depends on your attitude, too. So, be a good person. Help someone out. Do your small part to make 2013 a good year for everyone. And if you feel crummy or sad...take a nap.

And then get up and try again. 2013 is going to be awesome.

A New Year--Time Flies

Being New Year's, I've been thinking about the last year. And that always makes me think of the one before that, and the one before that, and the one before that...

 
This is Little Boy and Isaac around the time of Little Boy's first New Year.

 
And this is Little Boy and Isaac when we decorated our Christmas tree this year [I would've put up a photo from this New Year's, but as usual, I don't have any pictures uploaded that are less than two weeks old. And...I'm too lazy to upload any right now. Heh.].

 Don't Isaac and Little Boy both look so different? *sigh*...

New Year's Comes But Once A Year

What's that you say? Something about these pictures being really late? I can't quite hear you. Sorry!

So here's our New Year's Eve in photos. Like I said before, it was a low-key evening for us.

Little Boy went to bed at his usual time. No way was I going to let him stay up past midnight. It might've been entertaining, though. He gets pretty loopy when he's tired.

 On to the main events...


Fancy cookies were eaten. (This might become a tradition.)


Movies were watched. (Iron Man. Good show, but I missed the end. Don't ruin it for me!)


Games were played. (Enthusiastically.)

 
Minds were blown. (The picture speaks for itself.)

 
Good times were had by all. (Even my teenage sister.)