Sunday, January 01, 2006
Welcome to Next Year
On today’s agenda, we finally finish Christmas. Yay! My father and stepmother are supposed to come by in the afternoon, bearing gifts for the Sadie. Then we will undecorate and be done with it until next year, when who knows what will happen.
I reason to believe that today’s gifts will involve books and a bear, unless anything has changed. This’ll be cool, as Sadie has “aged” significantly since the last visit, and seems to be quite fond of them.
In fact, just days ago she hit the milestone of moving out of a highchair. Today she hit the milestone of being able to climb down from the booster seat on the chair at the table by herself. She’s also become attached to that being where she eats. At one point we were just going to hand her a snack and she insisted on sitting at the table. Such orderliness.
A funny thought: I have particularly strong memories of December 31, 1969, when the calendar was flipping over into 1970. There was some kind of party the parents were going to, though for some reason I only remember interacting with my mother that day. I think it was a year and a couple months after that they split up. Or maybe it was only a couple months, but 1971 counts for the divorce becoming final. It was all exciting, to me, because us kids were left home with munchies and noise makers, to stay up late and celebrate. The funny thought is that my mother was 35 then, nine years younger than I am now. I thought of this when we discussed being too old to appreciate all the partying people do this night.