The last week of the year...

I made an awesome turkey dinner

Forgot to make the stuffing

Wore my pajamas more than my clothes

Slept for more than 9 hours at a stretch

Did some yoga

Ignored a jigsaw puzzle

Cruised the blogosphere

Burned lots of candles

Baked a pan of brownies while the kids went ice skating

Wore a ruffley scarf with my jacket

Visited the Christmas market in Brussels

Supervised the writing of thank you notes

Watched old episodes of the Gilmore Girls wrapped in an oversized silky fleece bathrobe

Drank countless cups of tea

Saw White Christmas for the first time

Read a little poetry

Used earplugs to drown out the howling of the wind

Laughed over The Full Monty

Put more than a year's worth of photos into albums

Marveled over all the places we've visited

Laid down with my daughter at bedtime

Stamped a selection of birthday cards

Made a wish list of art supplies--and ordered a few online

Went to the movies for the first time in almost two years

Listened to the kids argue over Monopoly

Pretended to be interested in what level my son had achieved on his Game Boy

Refused to read anything about Saddam

Made pork chops with curried pineapple

Ordered discounted merchandise for the kiddos from LL Bean, Lands End, and Hanna Andersson

Wondered how Patty, Lynn, Vicky, Sherry, and Jan were doing

Answered questions on scrapbooking for an article that will appear in an Australian magazine

Re-read all the Christmas cards

Did at least one load of laundry a day

Played with the ever-adorable Petey the Kitten

Took several walks in the woods with the fam

Attended church twice

Prayed for friends in tough circumstances

Prayed for strangers

Counted my blessings

Decided 2006 was a year to celebrate

And prepared to welcome 2007

Blessings to you and yours in the New Year

Thanks for reading my nerdy blog.

December 31, 2006

Comments

[platypus]

Happy new year to you and your family. Here's hoping for a great 2007. :)

[Rick]

And a Happy New Year to you, too.

[Ortizzle]

Happy New Year, Grrrl! Thanks for giving us so much that is worthy of reading. (I love those little bouncing heads!)

[Lynn]

I love your nerdy little blog - don't change a thing!! It's required reading for me all the time - it's like a breath of fresh air. I'm taking a break from cleaning out my tutoring room (throwing out piles and piles of paper!! What a good feeling!)

[deezee]

Wow. I'm impressed. Organizing a year's worth of photos alone would have been major.

Have a great 2007...may we both find the best aspects of our voices in print. (like how I project my wish upon you??) ;)

[Mignon]

Wow. Your last week was more eventful, rewarding and noteworthy than my last year. But then, I got a little foggy after the brownies part. You made brownies??? You?

Happy New Year, V! Looking forward to sharing 2007 with you.

[Mary-LUE]

Reading your creative, non-nerdy blog is a pleasure! And thanks for reading my all-over-the-map blog. Happy New Year!

[Ash]

Happy New Year! Your week sounds a bit like mine :)

[Char]

Happy New Year! I am very grateful for your nerdy blog. Because of it, I have a few of them now :-)

[Lisa]

I'm quite enamoured of your nerdy blog, Mrs., and also quite thankful for it. :)

[Clare]

Thank you for blog - I have read it with interest, amusement, wonder, agreement, sadness and happiness. Wishing you a good 2007 - and have you solved the homework problem yet?

[mckay]

oooo, how'd you like white christmas? i love those old movies. you've had a very productive holiday season. i still need to get my christmas cards (now New Year's cards) out. oy!

[Jenny]

Dude. My pajamas ARE my clothes. I freaking love your blog.


Happy New Year my friend!

[V-Grrrl]

Thanks for all the kind words. Just what I need on a gray Belgian day.

Clare--Homework battles come and go. He's gotten a bit better at doing homework and now we're working on turning it in on time. baby steps, baby steps.

McKay--I really enjoyed White Christmas and kept wondering if my parents had ever seen it...Such a different era in Hollywood.

[Debbie]

Happy New Year!

I, too, was impressed at the years worth of photos being scrapbooked. I am trying to make myself even gather all of mine into one pile (remember, I moved so my stuff is a little...scattered.)

[RD]

Blessings to you and your family in 2007, V-grrrl. Thanks for writing your "nerdy" blog--it's a delight. Now I'd like to see some of your scrapbooking pages--do you have them posted anywhere?

[wordgirl]

NO no no! Not nerdy! Wonderful! And picturesque. And despite the sucky present season of Gilmore Girls, I know that, one day, I'll be curled up on the sofa in my Chinese robe and watching it on dvd. And I'll still be reading your blog.

[furiousBall]

Maximum Jammies time is best.

Best wishes and Happy New Year at you.

[Annie]

Happy New Year to you! I can't wait for another year of Belgian adventures. I wish you health and happiness in the coming year.

[V-Grrrl]

Debbie and RD--I just put the photos into albums--I didn't scrapbook them. I find it's just too much to try and scrapbook family photos.

When I scrapbook, I scrapbook postcards from our travels and sometimes excerpts from blog entries. I've tried to photograph pages to post but can't seem to get the lighting right. If I use a flash, it washes everything out and misses the subtle details, but without a flash, things are dim and often not quite sharply focused since the digital camera takes longer to load the image...