HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!

Happy New Year to all our friends with little ones from Asia! We hope that the year of the OX brings much joy and happiness into your lives!!

I'VE BEEN INVADED

By FaceBook!!! I had no interest in this a few weeks ago and even made fun of Bob for doing it. But must admited over the weekend I have become consumed by it and can't seem to stop! LOL

I've re-connected with old friends from High School which I haven't been in touch with in almsot 20 years!

So now the trick is to be able to find time to blog, facebook, work and be Owen's mommy! Somethings going to have to suffer a little.......WORK! LOL

A LOT OF HYPE OVER ONE PRODUCT

Well, I finally got it!! The WII FIT!!! I have been trying since Thanksgiving. I don't know about other parts of the country but here in NYC it is HOT. I have a Nintendo store across the street from my office at Rockefeller Center and I couldn't get it, they were sold out.

Well, yesterday I went there with the hope that they would have the Wii Fit!! Of course they did not but the guy who worked there was very nice and said that they would be getting a shipment tomorrow! YEAH! Now the trick was to get there before they sold out. The store opens at 9:00 a.m. but I am sure the line would be forming much sooner then that. So, my very good friend and co-worker agreed that she would get there my 8:00 a.m. and wait in line until I got there at 9:00 a.m. (I drop Owen off at daycare and would have never made it there before 9:00 a.m) She was number 15 on the line. I got there just in time for the doors to open and there it was the WII FIT!! I am sure I heard the angels singing!! O.k. maybe not that extreme but pretty close!

I am very excited, I've been doing Weight Watchers but need the exercise.

FIRST POST OF 2009

Can 2009 really be here? I feel like we just started 2008! Can Owen really be home more then a year already??? There was a time not too long ago that I truly doubted that this process would end with us really being a family, yet I have the greatest little gift running around my house and he calls me mommy!


Here are some highlights of 2008!

• Owen received his cleft palate repair at Cornell Hospital in New York City
• He started speech therapy in February 2008 and wasn't saying a word, today he speaks in sentences and clearly understand everything said to him
• He had his first real birthday party and all his friends and family attended, he still gets excited every time we pass Funworks and yells "MY BIRTHDAY PARTY"
• Owen was baptized Catholic and has two very special godparents, my sister RaRa and my cousin John
• We had our first family vacation in the summer
• We purchased a camper for many fun family vacations
• He truly bonded with his nana and papa and in the past year has developed a relationship with them that will carry him through his life
• My husband continues to amaze me with his unconditional love for our son and for me
• Owen began he potty training phase, which is mastered as long as we are home, when out of the house we are working on
• Owen will begin Pre-K in September 2009

Wow, what a year it could possibly be the best year of my life and I am looking forward to 2009 and all the milestones that Owen will reach.

In the coming year I have set some personal goals for myself, I started weight watchers in 2008 and have really made the commitment to finally win the weight battle for the last time in my life in 2009.

I am no longer going to allow myself to be disappointed by certain people in my life, I am going to further distance myself from them and allow myself to believe that I am better off with it that way.

I am going to appreciate every moment I have with Owen, because before I know it he will be all grown up and this special times will be gone.

I am going to tell the people that are most important in my life that I love them more often and that I appreciate everything that they do for me and for my family.

So I guess that's it, I have high expectations for 2009! These are a few of my favorites of us with Owen.

Hope everyone had a great new years eve and that 2009 brings much love and happiness and most of all that we can find peace in our world and in our lives.