Suzy put me in charge. Yep. I’m in charge of writing up something to sum-up the year – and I guess it’s going out with the Christmas cards. Well, what can I say? Our Kids are bigger – in fact, I’m bigger. We’re all older. (Although Suzy still looks like she’s in her 20’s.) The kids are on their way to being teens and I feel like I’m a 50 year old living in a 35 year old body. So that’s nice.
In an age of Top Ten Lists, Bullet Points, and Bottom Lines – let me just mention some things that top my list as interesting tidbits from our life in 2009.
• Suzy wrote “Happiness is a Choice” on our bathroom mirror – and it’s still there. • Abby started asking, “Right Dad?” after stating her opinions on things. And I love it. • Sophie turned into a tease. She loves singing “Time Out For Abby” at the top of her lungs. • I am wearing cowboy boots and like them. Tried on pearl button snap-type shirts but couldn’t go that far… because I worried real cowboys would beat me up. • Everyone in the world joined FaceBook and those that didn’t are officially LAME. • Socialists have taken over the White House. Seriously. But fortunately lots of good people are fighting it. • After being called to Primary once again – Suzy said with a twinkle in her eye, “Well obviously we got this calling AGAIN because you haven’t learned whatever you’re supposed to learn!” I couldn’t quit laughing . . . • Abby got quite a cut on her eyebrow bumping into the Piano . . . but loved the purple band-aid so much she wore it for a month. We let her because . . . why not? • Suzie bought both girls a number of different costumes for Halloween . . . because they were all so cute. Sophie couldn’t decide which one to where . . . and so she wore all of them at once . . . making it hard for her to waddle around. • Abby doesn’t call Grandpa “Pow-Pow” anymore. I miss that… • The kids love all the Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins. They talk about them every day. • I’ve quit Caffeine a couple of times . . . my body is such a finely tuned machine that caffeine just messes it up. • We had a rough year financially, but we recognize our quality of life – even from a financial standpoint – is better than 98.47% of the world’s population. Certainly we have a lot to be grateful for. Good family, good friends, good health, enough money for all the important stuff, and a good community (and luckily no weird local community organizers to mess it up). • They discovered Life on Mars (again). Seriously. “Google” it. • We all got bikes this summer and rode them around together. This brought Suzy to admit she kind of has a thing for men that get out and do stuff with the family. Interesting.
I have a feeling 2009 is one of those years everyone will remember . . . and it will be talked about in the history books. Quite a year! Everyone I know is coming away from it with a few big goals for the near future; get out of debt, emergency preparedness, and most importantly to fight the good fight all along the way.
It’s our wish that every single family member and friend – all of us – can have a great 2010. Merry Christmas! And you can tell the “Holiday” people I said that . . . Suzy and I wish them well too.
The Page Family
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