2010 was a whole lot of eh. You know what I mean. It wasn't a horrid year or anything, but it wasn't super fantabulous, either. It was a shoulder-shrugger, brush off sort of year. I will not feel sad to see it slip away into the frozen night this weekend.
Still, I know that my family and I have really, truly been blessed, and I have been terribly negligent in my failing to acknowledge it. For so many in our country, and even more around the world, 2010 was a painful, difficult, awful year. I should treasure my apathy for the year; at least it wasn't sorrow, pain, fear, or hunger.
There are so many things in my life that make me smile.
College football, for one:
(Was anyone out there wondering if Bug still looked like her daddy?) |
Want to see a memory that makes me smile? Over Labor Day, we took the baby and headed to Silver Lake to relax and take in the beautiful weather.
Now, prepare yourselves for this. Waaaaay back in October 2002, we headed to the same lake shortly after Grandma Nancy passed away to relax and take in the beautiful weather. Have we changed much?
Weird, huh? And speaking of young love, Bug went on her very first dates in 2010-- first with an older man:
with Daddy at the aquarium |
Bug and her ward boyfriend. They flirt and exchange birthday presents and Christmas cards. Basically the only downside is that his parents are funnier and more clever than we are. |
2011 is going to be a fantastic year. I just know it. I sense it. I feel it in my heart. I will cheer and clap and, perhaps most impressively, stay up all the way until midnight to welcome it with open arms.
2 comments:
i agree that 2010 was just ... ehn. not a horrible year, but definitely not always awesome. i'm excited to see what 2011 has in store. i have hope for much better year!
2009 was the blah year for me. i almost don't want to make that blog year into a book b/c it's just too depressing.
here's to making each year better than the last!
and i think you guys got even prettier from 2002 to 2010.
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