Mommy Ever After » New Years Eve 2010 http://mommyeverafter.com Mommy Blog - Rebecca Fox Starr Sun, 09 May 2021 17:55:47 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.37 happy new http://mommyeverafter.com/mommyhood/happy-new/ http://mommyeverafter.com/mommyhood/happy-new/#comments Sat, 01 Jan 2011 14:46:05 +0000 http://mommyeverafter.wordpress.com/?p=1336 Full disclosure: I’ve now written about 15 different “first lines” for this post. None are sticking. None seem to fit. None will do justice to all that I am feeling. It is the first morning of the first day of the new year, and we have so much to celebrate, but I am tongue-tied. Going Continue Reading

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]]> Full disclosure:
I’ve now written about 15 different “first lines” for this post.
None are sticking.
None seem to fit.
None will do justice to all that I am feeling.
It is the first morning of the first day of the new year,
and we have so much to celebrate,
but I am tongue-tied.
Going from 2010 to 2011 was an incredibly,
and unexpectedly,
emotional turnover for me.
As the final minutes of the best year of my life ticked away, I started to panic. I wasn’t ready for 2010 to end.
I couldn’t get a grip on Time as it raced away from me, towards the shiny, flashing future.
For some reason, the end of 2010 symbolized something for me that I was not ready to give up.
It probably has something to do with 2010 being the year that I had my baby.
It probably has something to do with the fact that time is going by far too quickly for my liking.
It probably has something to do with the fact that “the year my baby was born” is a lot more easy for me to accept than “the year that my baby turns one”.
But, you know what?
It most definitely does not matter what was probably plaguing me, because time continued to tick away, as it always has,
and always will,
and before I knew it,
the clock struck 12
and 2010
was gone
before I was even able to bid it a proper farewell.
Instead, I held my baby,
who woke up and started to whimper in her bed just in time for the final countdown,
and whom we decided to bundle up and bring downstairs to ring in the New Year with us.
Right as the new year began, my husband and I leaned in and each kissed a sleepy baby cheek,
and my eyes filled with tears.
My tiny, itty, new baby
is not so tiny,
nor so itty
nor so new.
It’s not 2010 anymore, after all.
So after I kissed her,
and kissed my husband,
and our best friends,
I said the  Shehecheyanu,
my favorite prayer,
as a hope for what is to come for us in the future.
It may no longer be the year in which my baby was born,
but I believe that it will be the year of many beautiful new firsts.
First birthday.
First steps.
First piece of cake.
And maybe, just maybe,
First ponytail.
And as much as I wish that time would slow down,
even just a little bit,
I know that I have a lot to be excited for in the days
and months
and year
that lies ahead.
11 is my lucky number,
after all.
Happy New Year.
I hope that there is good for you
in all that is new.

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]]> http://mommyeverafter.com/mommyhood/happy-new/feed/ 0 A few Sundazy things: http://mommyeverafter.com/mommyhood/a-few-sundazy-things/ http://mommyeverafter.com/mommyhood/a-few-sundazy-things/#comments Sun, 12 Dec 2010 21:05:43 +0000 http://mommyeverafter.wordpress.com/?p=1269 1. I got an email from my online pregnancy calendar today, congratulating me on reaching a new pregnancy milestone. 2. I am not pregnant. 3. I am not pregnant, but sometimes, a craving or two sneaks it’s way in. I’ve been baking all day. 4. cravings 5. I got another email from my online pregnancy Continue Reading

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]]> 1. I got an email from my online pregnancy calendar today, congratulating me on reaching a new pregnancy milestone.
2. I am not pregnant.
3. I am not pregnant, but sometimes, a craving or two sneaks it’s way in. I’ve been baking all day.
4. cravings
5. I got another email from my online pregnancy calendar today. It said that my baby is now 33 weeks old
6. I don’t think that’s correct.
7. I can’t be sure. I just tried to count 3 times, using a real, honest to goodness calendar, and I came up with 3 different answers. I’m not good at all this time stuff.
8. I’m still in my jammies.
9. When I get an email from my online pregnancy calendar, or look at pictures of my cute little pregnant belly, I get a tiny bit wistful. Just a teeny, tiny, itty, bitty bit.
10. When I get an email from my friend, discussing our New Year’s Eve plans, and I remember all of the bottles of champagne we’ve been saving for just this occasion, and the fact that this New Year’s Eve, unlike last New Year’s Eve, I can drink all of the bottles of champagne, and have the energy to stay up until midnight, I get a tiny bit overjoyed. Just a teeny, tiny, itty, bitty bit overjoyed. But, really, I mean a lot overjoyed.
11. I obviously don’t mean I will drink all of the champagne. Come on now.
11. I know that I already wrote an “11” but it’s my lucky number.
11. I’m now craving champagne.
14. I also like the number 14. And 7. And 18. And 36. And 2. And 22. And 222. My daughter was born at 2:22am. I’ve lost you now. I know it. I know I’m weird with numbers. I may be bad with them, but I love them anyway.
18. My oven is beeping. I must run.
222. No, I will not share.
1111: Okay, I will. But, only if you bring me champagne.
 

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