9:51AM

I stole this meme from Laura.

1. What did you do in 2007 that you’d never done before?
   
   I moved to Mississippi, I had never been to Mississippi, who knew it would come to feel like home for me so easily.


2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
   
   My resolutions are always the same: eat better, exercise more, be kinder...I never keep them


3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
   
   No one in my real life. One of my very favorite bloggers Julia, has or is about to give birth to twins. After trying for many years and going through many losses. My heart is filled with so much joy for her and her family. And Sari surprised us all by telling us she was having a baby just days before she did.
   


4. Did anyone close to you die?
   
   No, but I found out on Christmas day that my dear sweet Grandma has terminal cancer


5. What countries did you visit?
   
   I started the year in Misawa, Japan. I still miss Japan sometimes, but not the snow. I really loved having a lovely 70 degree sunny Christmas day.


6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?
   
   A job.


7. What dates from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
   
   March 29, due to the time difference we left Japan, arrived in Mississippi and closed on our house.
   


8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
   
   I made a lot of progress with Lily and her behavior and teaching her to count and spell etc. I helped Mandy navigate moving during her sophomore year of high school. I think I do a pretty good job of supporting and loving Jeff to help him be all that he can be. All told, I feel that my biggest achievement is being a great wife and mother.


9. What was your biggest failure?
   
   I have lost my temper with Lily more times than I can count.


10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
    
    I twisted my ankle at the beginning of the year, I had some pretty funky colds, I got stung by fire ants, and I got a severe case of anemia. Depending on your definition of suffer, I guess.


11. What was the best thing you bought?
    
    My new house.


12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
    
    Jeff, he is good to me and the girls


13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
    
    I am under strict orders not to blog about this, never give your husband your blog address. Let's just say someone has irked me more than I have been irked in 10 years. This person sent an email to us and many others to say we don't know Jesus and are in need of prayer. Right now I am in need of your prayers that I don't accidentally put rat poison in this person's coffee. Hoping Jeff doesn't read more than the first few lines as per usual or I am in BIG trouble.


14. Where did most of your money go?
    
    Moving, cars, braces, Christmas, college, I don't keep track or I would have a nervous breakdown.


15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
    
    Owning my own home, moving to Mississippi, volleyball games, Lily counting to 100 and then counting backwards from 100 to zero, lots of things - I am easily amused.


16. What song will always remind you of 2007?
    
    Souja Boy. Do you have any idea what they lyrics of this song are? And what they mean? it is wildly inappropriate, freaks me out to see little kids doing that dance. I must be getting old to care.


17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
    
    a) happier or sadder? Happier, we were about to move and that was really stressing me out.
    
    b) thinner or fatter? Slightly thinner.
    
    c) richer or poorer? much, much poorer


18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
    
    Exercise


19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
    
    Eating sweets


20. How did you spend Christmas?
    
    We got woken at 6AM and opened presents. We ate a lovely breakfast and spent the next several hours putting things together. We had a lovely meal, a lovely walk, and then played Risk. Mandy and I teamed up to take out Jeff and Chad, we annihilated them and then put the game away. New Years we are planning to take them out playing Spades.


21. Did you fall in love in 2007?
    
    Don't gag, but I love my husband more every year.


22. What was your favorite TV program?
    
    Saving Grace, Monday nights on TNT.


23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
    
    Yes, very much see above. I haven't hated anyone in a very long time. It is not good for me or for my family. I am working on it. But, I can't seem to get over it.


24. What was the best book you read?
    
    Harry Potter


25. What was your greatest musical discovery?
    
    Queen. Mandy and I both love Queen and it comes on the radio here all the time, it never came on the radio overseas. The very best moment of the year for me was singing Bohemian Rhapsody at full blast in the car driving down the road with Mandy. She and I have always been so close and these teen years have been so hard on me, just having a moment with her where we connect was rhapsody.


26. What did you want and get?
    
    Globe and clock. I was so surprised.


27. What did you want and not get?
    
    I can't think of anything, I am very spoiled.


28. What was your favorite film of this year?
    
    I didn't see a lot of films this year, and the ones I did see are not memorable.


29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
    
    I was 38 this year, I always forget and have to ask Lily. Jeff took me out to dinner and we had a family party, it was lovely.


30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
    
    I feel that all my accomplishments are abstract, being a mom, being a wife, school, I wish I could have something to show for my life sometimes. Like a paycheck or a degree, an award.


31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?
    
    My fashion is getting better. I got a cool new hair cut and I even wear makeup sometimes. I try to wear decent clothes when I go out of the house. I would say I am getting better, but still a work in progress.


32. What kept you sane?
    
    Iron. Before I knew that I was anemic, I thought I was losing my mind or going threw depression. I never wanted to get out of bed and didn't have the energy to even care. I felt so guilty because my life is everything I have ever wanted. Iron pills saved my sanity.


33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
    
    Julian Mahon


34. What political issue stirred you the most?
    
    Education: the disparity between rich and poor, the cost of college, we suck in comparison to the rest of the world...


35. Who did you miss?
    
    My family, and my friends, sometimes traveling the world is lonely.


36. Who was the best new person you met?
    
    Lorelei


37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007

    
    Lily likes to push my buttons.
    
    
38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
    
    
Mississippi, won't you keep on shining on me.

Wow that was a long list.