This morning I transferred all the birthdays, anniversaries, and appointments from our 2008 kitchen calendar to the 2009 calendar. Some things have not been moved to my computer calendar yet, . . . I think because I like having the milestones out where I can see them. And I enjoy this ritual of doing the calendar every year. It makes the new year seem official.
I also wrote our first checks of the new year and carefully made sure to date each one 2009. Now I have to close out the budget for 2008 and have the 2009 budget conference with Michael. (I do a preliminary set of numbers for us to discuss and then we work together to finalize our budget every year.)
Once I get through those two tasks, I will know that I'm in a new year. Until then, I feel like I'm in transition.
What makes the new year real for you?
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Each year, DIL gives us a new calendar with photos of the kids in scrapbook format. The kids obviously get older every year, and for me, hanging that new calendar marks the new year and makes it real.
For the first time in decades I do not have my regular wall calendar.
What I did do for this year was to write 11 pages of what happened to me in Covenant Players, the true story, that I want certain people to know. And that's been a fabulous cathartic thing. Kinda like losing those pesky 10 pounds that have hung on for decades.
what? we're in a new year? i don't even have a wall calendar yet!
BTW - what is going on with Smokey's ears? (i read your calendar - i know - kind of creepy on my part)....
I'm not really sure what makes the transition most real for me. Hm. I'll have to think about that. Basically, it comes with my new choices.
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Smokey is prone to ear infections, so I'm supposed to clean his ears twice a week. I'm really bad about remembering, so I have a pair of moveable post-it notes.
Ruth, I've never thought about it until I read your post. I know I make a big deal about posting the new date for the first time, but that's about it.
Our calendars are all school year types so they begin in August of each year.
I'm sitting here marveling about how I've never thought about the transition. Amazing.
This is a horrible thing to admit, but I so hate the holidays, and even moreso New Year's Eve, that I feel it the minute it happens.
Relief.
Bah humbug
Sounds like a very busy staycation. When I'm busy I wish I had more time, when I sit around, I wish I was busy.
I need to do my calendar. Then it will feel like the new year.
I see a few post-it's with Smokey's ears on it. Sounds a little yucky.
It really is the calendar ritual that does it for me!
Happy 2009 to one of the best bloggers I have the grace to be in community with... and that is something since there are so many amazing bloggers out here. You are truly a light Ruth. God bless you always.
What makes the new year real for me is the first few checks I write - having to scratch out the
'08 and put '09 instead, LOL
XOXO
"What makes the new year real for you?"
March, I think. Or maybe June. I'm a slow learner.
The calendar does it for me too. I spent some time getting my desk calendar updated with birthdays and such. And then once I do my lesson planning this afternoon, it will be very real that we are in a new year and going back to work.
Eating lentil soup on New Year's day makes it real for me. It's an old family tradition.
Ah yes, the first checks of the year. Since I started using my bank's on-line billpay system about a year ago, I don't write many checks at all now. So, so far this year, I haven't written one. I'll have to remember to put 2009 if I do!
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