New Years Fairy

When I was a child we had a magical, generous fairy that visited every New Years Eve and left a special toy to ring in the new year. I loved the anticipation of waiting for Santa Clause on Christmas Eve and then a week later waiting on New Years Eve for the fairy. One particular gift that stands out in my mind was a baby doll that the fairy left me. The reason I remember this doll was because of the horror I felt when I discovered that the fairy had left me a doll with brown skin............before you go and accuse me of being racist please remember that I was 5 and a little girl that could only imagine mothering a baby that was truly her own. After a few days I am happy to report that I "accepted" that baby into my growing family after my mother explained the process and concept of adoption. I laugh now when I remember how many "babies" I cared for at that age just confident that I would be the BEST mother when I got older because I thought "Really, how hard could it be?" LOL, LOL. It is not hard when they have a button to stop their crying and do not produce massive filled diapers at 2,4, and 6 AM. Ok, I have gone a little off subject....I have fond memories of the New Years fairy and she became even more special to me when I discovered as an adult that the New Years fairy was my beloved grandma Zabriskie. It gave me another reason to add to the list of a million reasons that she was the greatest person to enter into my life.

2007

I cannot believe that 2007 is almost over and at the same time, I feel really relieved to see it end. I didn't have anything too horrible happen in 2007 but I am a little off and prefer the even numbered years to the odd......?? I can't explain why. Some highlights of 2007 in the Borowski home.

1. One more year of nursing classes over and done with!! I will be an RN before I know it.
2. An auto accident in October which resulted in my new beautiful SUV.
3. Jaxson entered nursery which leaves me with two silent hours of church every Sunday.
4. A trip to Calgary in October
5. A trip to Utah in June
6. The introduction of the Wii into our home (that was added by Jade and Connor)
7. We welcomed a new member named Archie in February of last year. Connor's beloved hamster Archie is still alive and doing well.
8. hmmmmm, I'm running out of highlights.........
9. Shannon finally caught the dreaded Lyme's disease after obsessing over it for the past 4 years we have lived in Jersey
10. We took a trip to the Pocono Mountains in August

All in all, this year was not different from the view of an outsider looking into our family life but this year did bring some much needed changes to our family life and the results have been love, peace, and contentment. For the year of 2008 I hope to find our family still full of love, peace, and contentment and know that the only way to keep achieving these qualities is with a CHILDLESS cruise to a warm sandy place! LOL,LOL

Our December photos 2007

bread no more

I am deeply saddened to announce the passing of my bread machine. We had 7 good years together where we enjoyed bread, rolls, cinnamon rolls, and bread sticks. I am truly lost without it. I had planned to make Connor's teachers cinnamon rolls for Christmas and now I am lost. I am hoping for a Christmas miracle. (such as a bread machine left at my front door) LOL,LOL
(crazier things have happened) I have used this machine for the past 7 years to make my holiday rolls!! Our taste buds will be missing those fresh from the oven homemade rolls this Christmas.

Am I the only one truly traumatized from high school that I STILL have nightmares weekly about it? People in your past are there for a reason. I believe there is a reason they did not make it to your future so I wish they would butt out of my dreams!! I want to have dreams of sandy white beaches and exotic vacations. Not nightmares of shallow people and trying to get my high school diploma at the age of 28.

Blast from the past

I had to put this picture in from last year. I don't know what Connor is doing??? maybe laughing? The most important part of this picture is the PJ's that we are wearing. Check out the matching reindeer PJ's that we bought (on seperate occasions) We truly are mother and daughter. We laughed so hard when we discovered that we both purchased the same PJ's for each other.

It's beginning to feel alot like Christmas

It is almost Christmas time!!! I cannot wait. My tree has been up for three weeks, I have made Christmas cookies, and my Christmas cards were mailed out a week ago. My presents are wrapped, presents have been shipped, and now I am just waiting..............I can't wait to see what Santa will bring me this year.

Snowfall

We had our first snowfall last night. The boys couldn't wait to put on gloves, hats, and boots and venture out into the winterwonderland.