{"id":1466,"date":"2008-12-31T14:14:46","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T19:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=1466"},"modified":"2008-12-31T14:17:06","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T19:17:06","slug":"2008-the-year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2008\/12\/31\/2008-the-year-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"2008: a meme of review"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s become a bit of a tradition for me to do this end-of-year meme. It’s not as lovely in narrative flow as last year’s <\/a>seemed to be, but then again, this was a kind of disjointed year, from a bloggy perspective. A lovely, full, hectic, but ultimately wonderful year. It’s hard to imagine that this time last year, we were still a family of four, waiting (im)patiently for the Player to be Named Later to make his big entrance. So, for the sake of tradition, here it is: the first line of the first post of every month in 2008.<\/p>\n

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  1. Those of you who know me well know I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t usually bother with resolutions.<\/li>\n
  2. Okay, I admit it: it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been fun dragging y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all along on this crazy ride with us.<\/li>\n
  3. \nThe boys laughed uproariously when we watched a preview of Mr Bean\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Holiday at the theatre, so Beloved thought it would be a good Sunday-afternoon family movie to rent.\n<\/li>\n
  4. Lucas and Tristan have had a lot in common. <\/li>\n
  5. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve talked about circumcision and strollers, breast and bottle, slings and baby carriers.<\/li>\n
  6. Sorry about the downtime.<\/li>\n
  7. \nIt was one of the hottest days I can remember, the steamy tropically oppressive kind of heat that reminds me of my childhood summers in Southern Ontario.<\/li>\n
  8. It seems mildly ridiculous to me that I have three strollers and yet am shopping for another.<\/li>\n
  9. \nYou know how when you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have kids, and especially if you go through a period when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not sure that it will ever happen, you have these images in your head of what life with your kids will be like?<\/li>\n
  10. Not a day goes by that I am not amazed by the simple fact of their love for each other.<\/li>\n
  11. \nWith Halloween barely put to bed (with a sore belly from all that candy, no doubt) we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve nary the time for a breath of air before the season of Santa Claus parades is upon us.<\/li>\n
  12. \nUh oh. Cue REM\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the end of the world as we know it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Happy New Year to all of you who have taken a moment to read, to eavesdrop, and especially to contribute to the chatter around here. I wish all of you a new year filled with joy, laughter, and wishes fulfilled!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It’s become a bit of a tradition for me to do this end-of-year meme. It’s not as lovely in narrative flow as last year’s seemed to be, but then again, this was a kind of disjointed year, from a bloggy perspective. A lovely, full, hectic, but ultimately wonderful year. It’s hard to imagine that this … Continue reading “2008: a meme of review”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}