it's a day late, but happy 2012!

we didn't stay up until midnight.
we didn't sip our sparkling cider.
we didn't watch the ball drop.
we didn't have a midnight kiss.

quite uneventful.
well, jacob did take a 3 hour nap. that was cool.

like anything else in our life right now, new year's was just low-key.
we ran errands. we went to a little party. we played board games. we changed diapers.
yep. low-key.
so low-key in fact, i have no pictures to share.
lame.

but since i did go to bed early--with a massive headache might i add--i did have a little alone time to think about my new year's goals. and number 1 is--as always--to get to church on time.

for the LIFE of me I cannot be on time to church. and when i do, you know like maybe two times out of the year, the chapel looks so foreign and strange i don't know what to do with myself. and i keep expecting to see the harried and flustered garrisons clunk through the chapel doors and take a seat in the back. but like i said, that only happens twice.

oh and the "back" in this story isn't the cultural hall where you can sneak in the back side door undetected. our ward is so small that we never open up the cultural hall. in fact, i didn't even know we had one until i heard the screams of chaotic children running around in there playing after mutual one night.

no. there is ONE door in and out of our chapel. and EVERYONE sees you. its a tardy person's nightmare.

so, with all that being said, i set my alarm clock to 6 am. church starts at 9 am. i got up obediently when the alarm went off. i didn't even blow-dry my hair. i even changed jacob in the car on the way there.

and....we arrived at 9:10.

the only option left is to sleep in our sunday clothes this saturday night, wake up, grab the diaper bag and baby and head out the door.

we'll see. right now i'm having nightmares that my tombstone will read, "she dawdled. she delayed. she loitered. SHE WAS TARDY." and i'll be sent to a room filled with Placerita Junior High desks where i'll be scraping gum off the undersides with a small, metal spatula for all eternity. i think it just.