2009 Lilypads

Here are the fun things we have in store for 2009.  There may be more, there may be less, but for now I’d like to think of all the wonderful things this year has to offer us, instead of the fact that all of the world’s money has fallen down a rabbit hole and everybody is losing his job or her mind.

January 3: Patrick turns 31, and I make copious amounts of Irish stew and minty brownies and serve them to all and sundry.  It’s a fun party.

January 10: We go down to New Orleans for our first baby-free weekend!  This was wonderful, and much needed.

February 8: Mother-in-law and Sister-in-law come up for a visit, so we can get the babes together again.  We’ll “do” the SIL’s birthday this weekend, since for her actual birthday later in the month she’ll be at Mardi Gras.  Are you as jealous as I am?

March 6: We spend a long weekend in Nash Vegas with my parents, and also drive down all of the hand-me-down stuff that we’re giving to my little sister WHO JUST GOT HER FIRST APARTMENT!!  Wheeeee!

March 14: My BIL’s birthday.  I hope to be somehow involved in humiliating him for being THIRTY ONE.

March 26: We celebrate my sister’s birthday!  It’s a Thursday but whatever.  We’ll rock out.

April 12: Easter.  Stay tuned for the planz.

April 25: Jack’s first birthday party, during which I faint from shock that we survived one year.  My brother will also turn 22 on this day, but who cares about him anymore?  😉

May 10: Mother’s Day.  I’ll be spending it with my family at my brother’s graduation from college in Tennessee.  Did you hear me?  My little brother’s graduation from college.  Probably more fainting from shock will occur.  I hope Patrick can join us.

May 17: A Minnesota wedding.  It is likely that only Patrick will attend this one, because it is too far for us to drive.  It’s his cousin, and I wish I could see it!

May 25: Memorial Day.  We’ll be camping, in our new family tent that Patrick got from his ‘rents for his birthday.  We can’t wait to try it out.  I’m lying – tent camping with a 1 year old???  Can this go down well?  We shall see.  The day after this I have another sister celebrating another birthday, and geez can you see where all our money goes?  Nobody else be born.

July 4: This is a nice long weekend, and we’ll probably go to South Carolina.  The last several July Fourths have been spent with my parents, rocking out at the Barbershop Harmony Society International Convention, wherever it may be.  This year, it be in California, so we be skipping it.

Early August Ish: We’ve been invited to hang with friends at their remote Canadian cabin, and come hell or high water I’m going to try to get us there.  Also another sister has another birthday, which we shall do something about/for/with. 

August 26:  Patrick’s Mama’s birthday.  It’s on a random mid-week day, but perhaps we shall see her the weekend before.

August 28: This is my mother’s birthday, and the 2 year anniversary of the day I found out I was pregnant (I celebrate it.  Whatever.)  I would like to spend the weekend with her if we can, since last year she was all by herself for the whole day of her sixtieth and that is just LAME.

September 1: A freaking Tuesday.  I’ll probably have Patrick take me to a fancy dinner.  I had a big party last year, so another won’t be necessary for a while.  Just call me, if you know me.  And send diamonds.

October 31: Halloween is on a Saturday this year.  I am determined to learn how to use the sewing machine in time to make Jack’s costume for him.  I hope we get to trick or treat somewhere, which means the band can’t schedule a show on this night.  We’ll see how that flies!

November 15: Our niece turns one on this Sunday, so I hope we’ll be invited to join in her celebration.  Can I smack the in-laws any harder in the head with that hint?

November 26: Thanksgiving.  We are pondering having this at our house this year.  Travel is such a complete and utter nightmare.  Complete.  And Utter.  But we’ll see, by the time it rolls around again we may forget how wretched the drive is and go to a family member’s house.

December 4&5: Weirdly, our parents have birthdays very close to one another – the Moms 2 days apart in August, the Dads back to back in December.  At first I thought this was cool and easy to remember, and now I think it’s lame because, just like all the other holidays, we have to take turns spending birthdays with our parents, whereas if they were normal, spread the birthdays out kind of people then they’d each get us for all their birthdays.  Silly, silly parents, being born on the same days.  Anyway, we’ll probably spend this weekend with one of them.

December 25: Christmas is on a Friday.  We’ll be with my parents this year.  Will we take off the week before or the week after?  I don’t know, but I’m excited already!

December 31: We signed up to provide a cool locale for our friends to ring in the New Year with us, and I’m determined to stick with this despite The Poorness of 2009.  We can find a low cost solution.  We did it two years ago when I was pregnant and it was awesome.

There.  Now doesn’t that look like a fantastic year to come?