the back door

what a year 2010 was...here, i share my journey january: i turned 35, we hired a new pastor, and of course we packed up our first home of 11 years in less than 5 days and moved! it was quite the crazy adventure... february: we lived most of this month without a kitchen, blew a few fuses, realized the old windows allowed a lot of cold air, i threw my keys at the nice man at the car dealership and demanded he fix the door that wouldn't stay shut. yes, i truly did throw them and yes i demanded! i was quite proud of myself. march: we had our first real big adventure when we had the fire in our brand new dryer! we started to settle into life on the farm. we toured south bend chocolate factory april/may: i headed to atlanta for a conference with dear lizziey...we had a blast until the last day when she got sick....i set the car headed for home and in a few hours i was nearly passing out. we found a hotel and checked in. the next day - feeling weak, but eager for home we waite

...my favorite things:) ...the glee cd! oh yes, it brought squeals of great glee!!!! ...the project 365 album....again more squeals of great glee!!! ...a vintage ring that brings great joy to my soul! ...a christmas without the flu, colds, ear infections, roseola, etc... ...many great family nights! ...watching my hubby teach princess to ice skate on our icy driveway! ...a renewed passion and zest for this crazy life i've come to cherish:)

sycamore hill lit up:) i had a rough several weeks surrounding thanksgiving due to some random viral thing that left me, and probably my good doc, puzzled! so anyways - i felt upright enough to venture out for our tree that weekend. we tried to talk the kids into a tree from lowe's - yes, we tried - but nope, they wanted to go to the farm to get one. oddly enough, we just walked their pre-cut trees and grabbed one. anyways, it is a beautiful tree that took the life of a dear club chair. i remember as an older teen making my mom do theme trees for a few years. i still think that would be fun, but as the kids put up the random collection of ornaments i was touched by the memories hanging on that tree of ours. i never thought of myself as too sentimental, but the memories just struck me this year. in other winter news: sycamore sledding hill opened up last week. we have had so much fun in our own backyard. the round of rain yesterday cleared our hill, but with the snow curr