Natalie leaves today to spend the remainder of her Christmas vacation at my Grandmother’s house.
Six days without her.
Of course she’s in capable hands (that was never a question!) but it always feels so odd when she spends more than a night or two away because I never consider spending that much time away even to travel for work. 
So six days is pretty major.
I know even bringing this up will cause me to hear from a few parents wishing they had someone nearby who could give them a break once in a while.  I know. I know.
But I still feel weird. I just do.
Its six days without making Shirley Temples, running errands, playing the Ladybug Game, having her show me her favorite yoga postures – “This one’s the hardest, mama.”
I think Luke misses her too when she’s gone for a few days and we both look like mopey mopes around the house.
It’s not like the boys and I will have nothing to do while Nat’s away.
We’ll play.
And well, I’ll clean the apartment.
Oh yea, and work.
If all else fails, when Luke and Harrison go to bed, I can always resort to enjoy some reality television – or not.

Last year, I made around eight New Year’s resolutions.

Kept six.

(I think. It’s too early in the morning to go searching for blog posts from 365 days ago.)

One thing I know is that being stuck on a plane near a Petri dish full of sick people forced me to not keep one of the big ones.

And it upset me. I cried about it not being fair. Like a whiny baby. Wait. Not even Harrison complains.

But from what I can remember off hand, I did pretty well – resolution wise.

Note to self: Stop flying to O’Hare.

Oh wait, I’ll be there next week. Fun.

New note to self: Fly to and from O’Hare but pack everything that can battle a cold.

Bring on the stomach flu.

Anyway, this year, at a bright old 21 minutes into the New Year, I’ve decided to only make one New Year’s resolution.

Do not edit.

Not even my blog posts which resemble high school hallway tangents.

And not myself. With what I have to say. When it comes to what I believe is the right decision for me.

Which means I’ll probably not post some days.

Who am I kidding…

(But then again, how is that different from my usual posting frequency?!)

Ha!

Hello 2008.

This should be an interesting year.

“It could all be so simple but you rather make it hard”