I have lots of thoughts in my head about what I want to write about.  I don’t know how many blog posts I’ve composed in my head while Ellie was nursing, only to have them stay there because I ran out of time to actually write them.  So I’m not making any promises that this will all get done.  With that caveat, here’s what I want to write about this year!

Sewing:

1. Tutorials for Ellie’s quilt, the color books I made for Ellie and Luke this year, and for Nik’s T-shirt quilt which I’m working on right now.

2. I have all kinds of sewing to do this year, including Roman shades for our dining room, lots of Christmas stuff (like a tree skirt, stockings, etc), a commission!, curtains for our living room, clothes for Ellie, lots of sewing for the bazillions of new babies coming (and on it goes).

Ellie:

1.  Finally, some videos of her in all her amazing growth and development.

2. Some analyzing of her language development

3. Thoughts on parenting

KIOS:

A long time ago, you all voted for our series to be called, “Kickin’ It Old Skool”.  Back then, I claimed the series would start in the fall.  Ahem.  Here we are in January, so we’ll do it in the spring!  I’ll be writing about what makes our family old-fashioned, in the ways we eat, play, and live.  This will probably take up the bulk of my “serious writing” time.

How to ______________ without _____________:

I’ll keep posting in my series, “How to _____ Without ____________” – this is probably where you’ll see some more recipes and cooking stuff.  Some of this will overlap with my KIOS writing.

Travel:

Finally, we’ll be traveling quite a bit this year – to Alaska for Ellie and I in the spring and to England, Greece, and Iceland for all of us this summer.  So you should get to see some great travel pictures too.

And I think that is enough!