I'm a bit sad to see 2010 go. It was such a great year for the Gillefonds. We were so fortunate, I feel like I should light a 2010 homage candle! As we blew our noisemakers and threw confetti last night when the clock clicked from 11:59 2010 to 12:00 2011, we celebrated that 2011 is the year that we become parents- the year of Papoose! Now when we say her due date is April 7, 2011- we are actually in that year!
I decided to look back at what I proposed for 2010 in my last new year's post.
A few successes are obvious- We definitely cooked more for ourselves this year and stayed away from the processed, packaged, ready-made stuff. We participated in a CSA, a neighborhood food co-op, progressive dinners, etc. We definitely ate more vegetables in 2010, and better quality meats.Yaye success!
I think we did a decent job in de-stressing. I definitely was not as crazed this year as last, but I think that is more my experience with school and realization that the world does not start and end with PhD deadlines, or if the bathtub doesn't get cleaned.
A few less-than-stellar observations- I dont know if I stopped being a clothes/shoe/accessory/housewares fiend as I had hoped. We got rid of a lot in the Great Highland Park Yardsale last year,but with my rapidly expanding waistline, It's been hard to cut back. I will say that in packing up my non-maternity clothes, I filled a few goodwill bags, and I'm certain that I will fill more as I slowly go back to my original size in the months following Papoose's birth, as I realize that I just don't need all of those clothes! I also don't think we took the opportunity to visit our friends far and wide as we had hoped. A bit of that I can blame on tightening our belts to prepare financially for Papoose's arrival, but a lot of the reasons were the same- too much school work, too much housework, not enough time to just up and go. I will be honest, I don't see that changing much in our first year of parenthood.
On my last New Year's Day as a non-mom, I can't help but reminisce about new year's eves of the past decade. I rang in Y2K (remember that??) in Germany with my German exchange family, drinking cheap grain alcohol, dancing to 90's US rock; my sophomore year of college where my still underage friends and I threw a party at my mom's house and one guest ended up sleeping in a car, and another made baked ziti at 3am; the night-before NYE in NYC which trumped the actual NYE celebration, and ended with my girlfriends and I at a strip club at 4am being invited to go to Atlantic City with the club owner; the night in Paris where we cooked a duck without instructions, danced around falling confetti in a Parisian club, and watched the sunrise replace the nightlights of that grand town while driving around the city with my best friend and 2 otherwise strangers. And of course, the new year's eves since Reggie came into my life. It was on NYE in a little lower east side Manhattan bar that I knew he was "the one"; the masquerade ball we attended the year we got married; the less than stellar year where in a comedy of errors, we couldn't find eachother in the taxi line, his phone died, and I ended up wandering around the city trying to get a cab and being propositioned for prostitution TWICE (I was in a ball gown skirt, long coat and pearls, too, I don't typically slut it up on NYE, so this makes the story even more inconceivable!). A great tale for cocktail parties now, a cold, sobering end to an otherwise ridiculously fun evening then.
I wonder what NYE 2011-2012 will bring. Papooska will be 8-9 months old. I can picture a dance party for 3 at our house with lights out at 12 as well as our likely need for a fun night out with the bundle of joy bundled by someone else for the evening.
This 2nd decade of the 2000s has been nothing short of incredible, and I'm so excited to continue to experience the love of friends and family, and all of our Gillefond adventures in 2011.
Happy New Year to all!
Love,
The Gillefonds
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