Good Bye and Good Riddance 2009!

I've taken quit the sabbatical this holiday season and it feels good to be sitting back at my own little kitchen table with my new tea pot (thanks Gram!) writing away and looking back over the last year. Some really great things happened. The invention of the cat mustache being one of those really great things, but I digress...

This blog was started out of a new year's resolution and while I haven't been the most faithful poster, I am so pleased with what has come of the year. Yeah, I'm still broke, but I've kind of made peace with that and it hurts less. I've got a family and friends who love me, so what more could a girl ask for? And that leads me into... Christmas!

I had two weeks of Christmas with my darling hubby's family and then again with mine. This year I think I gave a total of about ten gifts, (mostly hand made or free, more on that later) most of them went to my sister's adorable kids, but what I enjoyed most was spending time with the people I feel closest to, but rarely see.

But, honestly! What holiday could be better for a broke girl? Lol! I don't mean to sound materialistic, but I got some really great gifts. And it's not because they were flashy and expensive, its because they meant a lot to me and the people who gave them. I can't wait to share all my holiday goodies with you (I haven't just been lazing around! I actually took some photos and stuff!) and you will see what I mean when I say I'm easy to please. So stay tuned faithful bat-readers! There will be more bat-posts at this same bat-place at… well… um… varying... bat-times!

Happy 2010! May a new decade hold great riches for us all.

Knitting and Otis

I've been feeling rather depressed lately about the financial situation and the bleak reality of life as a "grown up."
Yesterday I subbed for a kindergarten class and I had fun playing with blocks, coloring and had peaches for a snack... Things which one (who is not a kindergartner or a kindergarten teacher) doesn't do very often. And it made me think of a time when I wasn't worried about the things that I worry about, or feel guilty about the things I feel guilty about.
I know that I really don't have to feel guilty about much and that I am doing all I can to make life comfortable, but things have begun to weigh on me in a way I have never allowed them to before and I am forced to think about the ways to remain young at heart when so many things are pulling at me. So I try to distract myself with more enjoyable things.
My sister taught me to knit, so today I sat on the couch and experimented with a knit two, pearl two ribbed cowl (since it will be cold until April) and listened to Otis Redding's painfully beautiful voice fill my living room with a warmth that only vinyl can. And as I sit here writing this for the world to read, knowing that, more than likely, only my husband will; I remember even if we lost everything, I never want to lose the love or the child I have inside.