A Childs Choice

When I was pregnant my husband wanted a hockey player. Boy or girl, they were going to play hockey. I'm good with that, as long they are happy.

Well, we have a daughter, who is almost 5 now, and does not have the skating talent down. We get on the ice often, but she just doesn't get it. She wants to, but it stays as a want. And this is fine.

We've moved on to option two. B told me she would like to do ballet, so here we are. We've been in ballet since beginning of October and she absolutely loves it. Cannot get enough.

I didn't get the option of sports growing up. My sister got softball, my brother got cadets and I had girl guides. That's it, that's all. My husband played hockey almost everyday of his life, hence the hockey dream.

All that being said, I want to provide my child(ren) the chance to do or be anything they want. So, until she tells me that she doesn't want to dance anymore, and wants to try something else, I'm going to enjoy watching my ballerina dance every week.

No Surprise

As I write this, the weather network online says it's -29, without the wind. This afternoon it is suppose to be -29, or if you prefer, -38 with the wind. It's winter. It's Canada. That should be explanation enough, right?

Apparently not.

I woke up this morning, loaded facebook on my phone, and saw what really wasn't a shock. Probably 90% of my friends statuses were complaining about the cold, "It's -46 with the wind", "my truck has been warming up for a half hour", and my least favorite "why is it so cold out, can't we just have spring already".

We have been spoiled with the above freezing temperatures for the last couple of months, when in all actuality, we should have been loaded up with snow and cold. Instead, my daughter and I have been able to spend numerous days at the park, without freezing our butts off.

Don't get me wrong, I don't love the cold. I'm not sitting here jumping for joy that I can step outside and get damn near instant frostbite. I'm not loving that I have to let the vehicle warm up forever, just to drive the 5 minutes to the library, or the 15 minutes to go pick our kitten up from the vet. And I'm not loving that I have my heat cranked in my house, and I'm still cold. But it is what it is. It's January. In Canada. In Alberta.

Stop Complaining. It's not going to help. Bundle Up. Winter is here.

Antsy

I'm antsy! I don't know what for. But I am severely so.

I'm sitting outside my daughters school right now, patiently waiting for the doors to open, and I'm blogging.

I've been getting so fidgety lately. I have the constant need to do something but I don't know what. Last year I began learning Italian, and began teaching myself guitar. I'm thinking that maybe I need a new, stimulating hobby, and I'm most definitely open to suggestions.

My SIL wants to learn Spanish so I have thought that I could learn it as well and we could help each other out. And then once I master Italian AND Spanish I could be multilingual :)

Last year I started scrapbooking, slowly, but the friend I did this with and I had a falling out so I'm basically starting over by myself. Not very exciting.

I might just buy a song book and start mastering song by song on the guitar. I think that's a good start. Maybe it's what I need....get rid of this antsyness, yes that's a word now ;)

Goodbye 2011 Hello 2012

This past year held a lot of changes for me. Overall, I'd say it was a pretty good 2011.

January began with me joining my sister in law in a weight loss competition. It ended in June, with me taking second. I can happily say that as of December 31, 2011, I lost and kept off 12 pounds and 14 inches. I will take it. I look forward to another successful year health wise.

July brought along with it the marriage of my husband and I. Together for 8 1/2 years, a 4 year old daughter, we decided on a beautiful wedding at the beach where I spent my summers growing up.

August began a small, for me, but exciting venture. My sister moved away from home and joined us here. She has been living with us ever since, has been working at a good job using what she went to school for (makes one of us) and is starting to get going on life as a 'grown up'.

My daughter started Pre-K in September, and ballet in October. Needless to say, I have a busy girl who likes to go go go.

Late fall hit me with the winter blues, or something, but it wasn't fun. Never happy. Feeling down on me. Feeling as though I'm just not getting anything right. But it's coming still. I find writing really helps. Even if it is just these random babbles.

Christmas was busy of course. Some family came here this year. Very enjoyable, albeit stressful.

And tonight New Years. It's well past 1am right now. My daughter just got to sleep, and there are still friends over, but I'm tired and in bed and wanted to get this all out.

2011 was pretty damn good. 2012 has some shoes to fill. I'm not huge on resolutions, yet I'm getting better at setting goals for myself, which is basically what a resolution is. I think that word alone just puts too much pressure on people to do it and be successful and just sets you up for failure. That being said, I do have some things I want to accomplish in 2012.

Last January was my personal best for health success. I did it at home, through eating and exercise, and had my family for support. It worked. This year, I want more of that.

This year I want to make my blog public. Technically it is, and anyone can stumble upon it, but I want to man up (woman up), and tell family or friends about it. I want to link it to my twitter or Facebook and just be brave enough for the people who mean so much to me to see this extra part of me. It's scary to put yourself out there like that.

I also want to do a trip this year. I don't care where. I just want to go. Somewhere.

I want to get on writing my story. It's been on the back burner too long and deserves some much needed attention. I don't know if it'll ever be anything phenomenal, but to finish it will be reward enough.

I also want to start a review blog. Review mostly local stuff.
Restaurants, stores, basically anywhere I go. Also movies, books, hell even recipes if I try out something new.
I just want to get out there and do something and say something and be something.

I'm hoping for a wonderful 2012. And here's hoping that I hit these few goals I set. Goodbye 2011. Hello 2012