Happy New Year! An End To 2010

I feel like 2010 just began and here we are at the end of another year. 2010 is coming to a close and in less than 12 hours. New years to me means new beginnings; new growth; a fresh chance to start over.

As with any new year, I come up with my list of New Years resolutions. (Which I'm sure you have to). Instead of coming up with a huge list that I know I'm never going to accomplish in the next 365 days, I'm just going to have a few on my list: (1) Mail birthday cards to my nieces and nephews (2) Lose weight, and continue down my road of being healthy. I have my sister in law's wedding in May and want to look nice and feel good about myself too. We've certainly had an amazing year. Some tough times, but overall the majority of the year was truly an amazing and a blessed one. It had to be a great year because I'm still here!

I took some time to find out what I am truly grateful for from this year:

(In no particular order)

1. My wonderful, loving, handsome, helpful, supportive, kind husband, Jeremy
2. My adorable Madore-ables, Samantha & Sarah
3. My family (Sims & Thompson side)
4. My in-law family (Madore, Burnham & Ramsden)
5. My faith
6. Sarah's Occupational Therapist coming to the house once a week for therapy
7. Free early intervention programs for Sarah
8. No more early intervention needed for Sarah
9. No more trips to Boston Children's Hospital for Sarah
10. The girls saying "please" and "thank you"
11. My friends
12. New friends
13. Old friends
14. My blog
15. Netflix
16. Pandora
17. Wii Fit
18. My weight loss
19. Being introduced to my friends on the Charlie's Angels walking team
20. My weight loss
21. Being able to get rid of a ton of my "old" clothing as a result of my weight loss
22. Friends becoming engaged
23. Friends becoming married
24. Family members becoming parents again
25. Friends becoming parents
26. My part time job
27. Having some extra income coming into the house
28. Having a savings account at our bank for the first time in six years
29. Our new flat screen t.v
30. My new stock pot from my Mom
31. Asking to be Matron of Honor in my sister in law's wedding in May
32. Sarah expanding her vocabulary by the day
33. The success of our photography business
34. Library story time
35. FCC children's programming
36. A working vehicle
37. All the Freecycle items we've obtained...especially the girls clothing
38. All the Freecycle items we've disposed of. Love cleaning my house!
39. One of our student loans has such a low balance, we can use our 2010 tax return to pay it off!
40. Finally finding an great fantastic amazing wonderful awesome babysitter for our Madore-ables!

Here are some of my favorite photos of the Madore-ables from 2010

So, I hope this year you have had fun reading up on our Madore-able adventures. Only because I have received so much positive feedback (and also, because I enjoy writing these blog entries) I'll continue the blog for next year too ; ) For now, I do have to tell you that this is the official last blog entry for 2010...plenty of new adventures of the Madore's and the Madore-ables coming up for 2011.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!!!!!!!

Welcome 2011!!!!