I was trying to think of things we could do to commemorate the New Year and celebrate throughout the upcoming months, but not have all the resolution stuff. Although, Pete has said before, that one year for his resolution he's going to start smoking. I find this very amusing.
I put this book together (well, the book is purchased) and Pete and I filled out 12 thin pieces of paper, one for each month, with an activity that we want to do, and possibly have never done before. No hard, challenging, or serious things aloud. Like one of mine is as mundane as buy fresh flowers, another is write a song, and Pete wrote eat somewhere weird, and go to a new park. That kind of stuff.
Then we put one activity in an envelope on a page labeled for that month (I got all dorky and made labels for this, to feed my office supply fetish) and then when the year is though, we take them out and glue them to the year-end page (with photos and souvenirs where applicable) then fill out new ones for the next year. So, the envelope pages we use every year and can flip back to the year-end pages to see all the activities we did from previous years.
There is room for more envelops on the pages for the girls, but since they are a bit young, and seem to do new fun things every day (oh, to be 3 again) we will wait for now. Almost all my activities do not involve the family, just me, which I think is crucial for the upcoming year. Movies alone, flowers in the living room, starting a Tolstoy novel (starting is the key word here) you know, more adult things. . . (that's sounds naughty-and maybe it is!)
**alright,these photos look so crappy! really and honestly, I had 3 different photo sessions for them trying to get better light, but it has been so dark here, so there you go.
*** The Tie One On Gallery is up and the new theme is set and sorry for the problems if you were trying to comment on these amazing aprons earlier, I think it's all fixed now (dang the "batch operations"!)
