I can’t believe another new year is just around the corner.  I’ve got one kid just about to leave for the Military, and one more half way through her Sophmore year.  Won’t be long and they’ll both be gone and my house will be quiet.  Too quiet.  Although I love the silence of a winter night, I’m not ready for it to be a permanent thing.  But, as each new year comes and goes, we must prepare for new things to enter our lives.

I had no intentions of this being such a sappy post.  We took down our tree tonight, and I realized it could be the last time my son and I put away the ornaments together.  A few years down the road, and I’ll be boxing up all his old things and sending them to his house.  I’ve spent years threatening him that I was going to ship all his things off if he didn’t clean his room, but I never thought I’d really have to do it.

My daughter wasn’t even here to help take the tree down.  She’s spending a few days in Colorado with family.  She needed some time away from Mom and Dad, but I wish her little head would peak into my room.  It annoys the crap out of me when she does it, but I miss it when she doesn’t.

My husband and I have been telling ourselves for years that as soon as our daughter graduated high school, we were going to sell everything we owned, buy a motorhome and we were gonna live off the land.  Sounds like a great plan, except that I’m getting to the age now where the idea of being on the go constantly sounds like a serious pain in the ass.  I just realized that I’m going to be that cranky old lady that sings to her cats.  Oh crap, I’m already that old lady.

Love your children, hug your friends, sing to your cats (and dogs).  Most people will think your a total nut job, but there will be a few who will jump in and join the club. 

Happy New Year!

OMG, I can’t believe it’s a whole new year already.  Funny thing is that it doesn’t feel any different than the old one.  LOL.  Ok, that was bad, but what the heck.  I swear if I had to hear one more person tell me “see you next year” today, I was gonna smack someone.  LOL.  I hate that.  It gets so old after awhile, and yet i hear it every bloody year.

I have to admit, my kid came up with an original one tonight.  She came out and said, “Mom, I have a serious sleep deprevation problem.  I haven’t slept since 2008.”  At least it was different.  Had to give her credit on that one.  she’s kind of a smartass, don’t know where she gets it from.  LOL

So, I’ve seen a lot of people posting their goals for the new year all over the net.  My goal is to make through another year without hurting someone.  Not really, I just don’t get all freaked out on setting goals.  Especially ones that last for an entire year.  I do have some goals in mind for this year, but I’ll just try and take them one day at a time.  I’m revamping the format of The Prompt Writer.  I just hope I can keep it up on a regular basis.  I’ve seen so many people that post on their blogs each and every day, sometimes several times a day.  There is nothing wrong with that, it’s just that I have a life outside my computer, so I don’t post as often as I should.

Plus, there’s the fact that I have 5 blogs that I maintain on a regular basis, so it’s hard to keep them all up to date all the time.  On top of that, I write for several other people, and those are paying jobs, so they take presidence over everything else.  Well, everything except my family.  They always come first.  2 teenagers and a hubby of 18 years can really put a crunch on one’s blogging time.  LOL  But that’s ok, I wouldn’t trade any of them for the world.

Well, I’m off to bed.  I’ve rung in the New Year, posted on most of my blogs, and managed to help a friend with some of his things.  I think it’s been a rather productive evening.  Besides, I can’t get any work done during the daylight if I don’t get to bed.  and I have a lot of plans for the first day of this new year.  Not that I’ll actually get anything done, but it sure sounded good.  LOL

Night all and Happy New Year.