I’ve never been fond of years that start with odd numbers.
Despite the fact that David was born in an odd-numbered year, I’ve just
sort of disliked them. To be fair, 2007 was a pretty good year to me.
For the most part, I was perfectly healthy and made some progress in all
areas of my life.
It was my first full-year of not-at-home employment since David was
born. I spent the first part of the year doing two different positions
and working myself way too hard. Thankfully, I woke up somewhere along
the line and changed my job so that I work with products I feel more
passionate about. I also got to meet some amazing people through this
new position and am working daily on enjoying it as much as possible.
2007 was mostly the year of scrapping and creating art for me. I did 270
pages of minibooks or layouts. I applied for DT positions and was
blessed to get one at my favorite place: A Million Memories. I also
submitted a few pieces of work and one got accepted to be published in
an upcoming Lisa Bearnson book.
I read over forty books. That’s not nearly as many as the years before,
but considering the full-time job and the full-time scrapping, I’d say
that’s pretty good.
I took over 10,000 photos. Most of them are David or layouts but there
are a few trips here and there. To San Diego. To LA. To Fitzgerald
National Park. To Pismo Beach.
Here’s some of the stuff I didn’t do: I spent a lot of quality time with
David and Jake and yet it wasn’t enough. I didn’t lose weight. Actually,
I gained weight. I didn’t hang out with my friends enough. I didn’t keep
in touch with people enough. I didn’t write my novel. I didn’t blog
enough. I didn’t exercise at all. I didn’t go camping enough. I didn’t
spend enough quiet time to enjoy life.
These things will be rectified in 2008. It’s an even year after all.
I knew you’d write! After all, it’s very hard to resist the writing bug during this time when one takes stock of the year gone by and looks ahead to the journey forward.
Happy new year to you and your family- may 2008 bring plenty of reasons to smile!
Even though our hangout was brief in 2007, it made my entire day just being with you guys. The most important thing is to take care of yourself and be loved, then everything else matters a bit.
May 2008 bring tons of joy and adventurous spirit to you and your family.