Hello Everyone!
I am blogging a Happy New Year a little earlier than normal. The next two days are going to be a lot hectic for me as I get the final touches on our annual New Years Day Recovery Party together. As I type this Tamales are being made and the house smells super yummy!
For several years now, I cannot remember exactly how many but I'd say more than 10 years, we've been hosting our recovery party. It started out as exactly that a Recovery from the night before. With Menudo, & tamales. Well as we have gotten older and a lot wiser the day has stayed the same, the name has stayed the same but the actual reason has changed. None of us party like we used to and recovery means recovering from staying up til midnight. It's so sad really.
Well last year we changed our Menudo to Pasole and everyone seems perfectly happy with the change. Over the years we have tried new things as well. A few years back I tried a green tamales sauce and well now we serve green and red tamales and pasole, beans and rice on New Years Day. It's a lot of work preparing but on the day of all we do is slack. It's a beautiful thing!
So basically, I am working my overlarge buttocks off getting ready for Saturday to arrive. I almost called the party off this year because I just wasn't feeling it. This has been a really bad year for us and it's been one thing after another. As I reflect on it I realize just exactly how we have been blessed.
Last year my son started having seizures, well he has been seizure free for quite some time now. Then I got a flat tire. Not once but twice so we needed tires all the way around. Hubby threw a fuel pump not once but at the beginning of the year and just the other day. Our house was burglarized and our home improvement project of just installing windows expanded from windows to new door, to new guest bathroom (because the kids killed the other one) and my poor sons room has been on hold this whole time. Our identity was stolen so we had to re-invent it. In addition to that the promise I made to my daughter about painting her room and updating it for a 9 year old has been pushed to the back burner.
Any vacations we had planned were cancelled in order to get our life back on track. My granpa passed away a few days before my husbands and my 15 year anniversary. So we ended up not celebrating it with the weekend away as talked about but a quiet lunch for two. A month later my grandma on my other side of the family passed away a few days before my 40th birthday and on the day before Thanksgiving. Needless to say I really didn't feel like celebrating that milestone either. Thankfully I have a good family and good friends and they convinced me I really needed to. My granpas bird of 30 years "Paco" died of a broken heart and he was a member of the family so that hurt as well. I got a ticket for talking on the phone while driving. I really don't like that law. & just yesterday three girls threw rice and corn at me as I was walking into a local grocery store. Oh and to top it all off I STILL have not won the Lottery. This has been an expensive year for us considering nothing was covered by insurance in our break in with exception to the damaged front door and back fence.
With 2011 just a few days away I am definitely ready to begin the new year and start fresh. Even though we have had this really bad and unending year we still feel positive. The both of us, hubby and I, are ready to take on this new year and we feel positive changes in our near future. We have been blessed with very supportive family and friends. People who love us stepped up and just helped wherever they could. It's amazing how blessed we really are. Our Faith in the Lord has increased in volume. With everything that has happened to us we throw our Faith to Him to see us through and He has given us the strength to persevere. He has given us people who have helped us when we needed them most. He has always known when we needed emotional support by having the right person there for the right occasion. Again, we are truly blessed.
So, for next year, we see lots of changes. All for the positive. We see some relief from this financial crisis we have been in and the completion of projects. We see Resolutions being fulfilled such as me losing the necessary weight, getting our bills in order, starting the projects we have always talked about. Oh and a personal one of me to curb my language...this year it's gotten a little salty. oops! 2011 is going to be a WAY better year for all four of us. We are ready for this new positive season of our lives. We cannot wait to begin this New Year and are excited to share it with so many of our loved ones.
Happy New Year Everyone & May God Bless You In 2011!
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