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It’s a little late, but oh well.  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.  I figure I now have the ultimate excuse “I’ve got a kid.” You can follow any shortcoming, mistake, delinquency with “but my kid…..” and pretty much get away with it.  Thankfully, I haven’t had to use this excuse much yet.

The life of a child & parent goes fast.  Christmas came and went with all the craziness and fun, travel and family.  The New Year is here and what do you know it’s the end of January and Sydney is now a full year old.  It goes fast.

The Christmas pic with Santa

Birthday #1 Cake

My first cake, yumm!

The little adventures in our life have changed and seem to be somewhat more “normal” than our past adventures, and I’m using that as my excuse for not blogging about our stuff as much.  I have been trying lately to remember to be a tourist in my own city and think about all the odd, silly, mundane if you’re familiar with them things I've taken pictures of and talked about in the past.  To that effect what I am doing now may be seemingly normal to us, but maybe still worth accounting for.  You never know, maybe there’s someone out there who doesn't know much about, or will find it interesting, to know about raising a daughter in Midwestern America.  Don’t worry I will not be recounting stories of poopy diapers and how chaos ensues once your child turns 1.  You can read a million and one accounts of how difficult it is to raise children if you look.  In reality Sydney is really good, our little house isn’t that chaotic, (sometimes it feels like it is for a few hours) we don’t almost forget to pick her up from daycare, and struggle to get grocery shopping done. 

Making beer in the garage with dad

  Yea, it’s a little different from being DINKs, worried mostly about when the next time we will get to the brewpub for tasty beers, but really just different.  Now we buy tasty beers to drink at home and know that any night you could be up a few times and you’ll be awake by 7:00A the next day.  Not bad really, actually sort of fun.

So Happy New Year, keep doing fun and interesting things, I will try, and your stories keep me motivated to do more myself.  Thinking of the people we know, wishing them a good year, and sending some good energy your way.

Walking with mom in Evansville, In