i'm typically a big one for year-end reflection, but being the parent of a one- and three-year old has effectively rendered that part of my brain (the part that does long-term memory, hell, even short-term memory) powerless. as though, somewhere in the evolutionary process, the maternal brain decided that responding to the needs of the immediate moment beat the pants off stuff like navel-gazing.
so when i try to remember, i get a big smear of odds and ends. with that disclaimer firmly in place, i offer this top ten list.
hausfrau's top ten stuff of 2010:
- best feeling: comforting my little boys. being able to set their little worlds totally to rights - when the rest of the world is so wrong and complicated and stupid - is the best feeling ever. ever ever ever.
- most satisfying day of work: cooking for gina's tasting party. being in the flow of cooperative labor, without interruption, and surrounded by friends; this is good in some primal sense.
- happiest marriage moments: well, i'll tell you the second happiest. ;) good long talks over maudite and dinner at dario's. candle on the table.
- best party: mad men party @ cheryl's. but there were also lots of excellent birthday parties this year, too. it was a year for good parties.
- most listened-to album: contra, vampire weekend
- richest comradeship: oh, this one could take paragraphs. you, friends, near and far, know how much i love you, how much i want you to move into all the houses on my street, and make life a perpetual block party.
- most norman-rockwell family outing: picking pumpkins at the orchard. andrew wore that hat i love.
- most essential household item: electric blanket. hands down.
- favorite crutch: nap. under the electric blanket. followed by coffee, if i need to perk up. or a vodka and cranberry, if i need to perk down.
- best popular fiction: it's been a big year for vampire novels on my night stand (although i still refuse to touch the twilight books). another favorite novel (completely vampire-free) was kazuo ishiguro's never let me go. at least i think i read all of those. see the above comments about memory loss.
3 comments:
this is good. i like hearing about your year. i regret i wasn't there for most of it. yes, wouldn't it be great if all the friends in the world lived on the same street and it WAS a perpetual block party? happy new year to you, dear.
SO sweet to think my kitchen made your top ten list!
you're not alone on the memory loss. love reading your need for coffee and/or a stiff drink, alongside your bliss in being able to right the worlds of your little boys. sharing reality is so necessary in the camaraderie of motherhood! after being off caffeine for quite a while because of breastfeeding issues, i was so refreshed by its effects when i returned to it a few months past -- i felt so alive! :)
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