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Latch-Hook Sunday

A New Year

I have been feeling like a rather lazy blogger. I have lots of ideas of things I should write, but then I don't. I get caught up in the day to day and then I just don't get it done. I decided in the spirit of the whole New Year's resolution concept (of which I am not very good at) I would try my hand at posting at least a  picture each day.

I like to write about things we do each day, but the reality is I don't often have the energy for the writing part of it. I could post the picture though... well maybe. I mean it might end up a total flop that I can't keep up with but it isn't exactly a life or death matter here so it is worth a shot.

I have been trying to figure out what a good goal for me would be this year. I do like the New Year. I like the idea of a fresh start and making a positive change. This year I feel a little muddled after 2011. It wasn't that I can make a blanket statement that 2011 was a bad year. There were some wonderful things that happened. There were some rough part too though.

Rough in ways that I hope 2012 isn't . I mean I like my attorney. I do. He is really nice. I just hadn't known him at all prior to 2011, and we spent a fair amount of time together this past year. I am hoping that we don't have to chat as often in 2012. Maybe I could use that money for some other purpose.

I said good-bye to someone I care about this year too. Not in a death way but in an erase, delete, unsubscribe kind of way that comes with the new technological ways in which we are in contact with people. It was the right thing for me to do, but that didn't make it any easier. I am hoping that this coming year brings more people into my life than people leaving it.

So here we go today's pictures.

It was a home with Cabbie kind of day.

I did get a run in my first of the year so far. My newish shoes have a lot of work to do as my co-worker Katie and I are hoping that our team is drawn for the two person relay team in this year's marathon. I am shooting  for a PR in the half marathon this year.

Look at that you got two pictures! I am already ahead of the game.

Oh Family Members.....

Guess who is going to be calling soon?

It's Girl Scout Cookie time!

First Night

We attended the First Night activities again last night. I learned some things from the previous year. Things like- show up at the face painting right when they open while the circus performance is going on and you will be first in line.

Alexa went with the princess choice for the second year in a row. Chloe is considering doing it for next year, but I think she said that last year too.

We made wands.

They participated in the print making and even got to roll the press.

One of their favorite activities last year was playing with the pottery wheels, but this year they didn't offer that. This year BCA was having the kids design ideas for the reconstruction of City Hall Park. Apparently they won a grant to redo the park over the next few years, so they had the kids make thing that they would like to see in it for the architects to look at. They they placed them in the model park.

They enjoyed this idea.

Chloe created the path criss crossing the park. If we see that in there in a few years we will know where it came from.

Then the kids wanted to walk in their school dragon in the parade down Church Street. I am sure in a year's time we will all (OK mainly me) have recovered from that ordeal. Lets just say at one point each kid was in tears (mine weren't the only ones) over not being able to find a space or being confused about what to do. By the end of it I had walked at a snails pace down Church Street trying to keep kids herded under the dragon so they wouldn't get lost in the crowd and my feet were so cold they ached. Both kids came out of it swearing they wanted to do it again because it was so fun. Funny how we had different experiences. Anyhow... the pink pair of boots and the purple ones belong to Chloe and Alexa. I made them stand together to ease my stress of trying to keep track on them in the crowd.

Ice Skating

Often when we were ice skating on Friday I would look in the middle and see Alexa just hanging out with her crates in the cetner of the ice. She was sittign right on the blue dot in the middle of the rind watching everyone go by.

At the end the kids favorite part is watching the Zamboni clean the ice. We have to take their skates off at the edge of the ring and wait until it is done before they want to leave.

Alexa's Skating Moves

We went ice skating with one of Chloe's friends on Friday. Alexa wanted to show her moves. As I was recording Kate and Chloe skate by too.