2007 Year in Review – Hosking Family -- Part 2

Hello everyone!  I am writing this in sunny Arizona, but I’ll be in the cold north when it is posted – hopefully having enjoyed a white Christmas.  Since 2007 is almost at a close, I thought I’d share what the Hosking family did this past year.

July:  Family vacation.  We visit Hubby’s mom and brother in El Paso, Texas.  On the way there we stop at Tombstone, Arizona.  We also drive to Carlsbad National Park to see the caverns.  We spend the 4^th of July in Silver City, New Mexico.

August:  Another school year begins.  Go-Go is in 4^th grade; the Little One starts 1^st grade.  One of Go-Go’s first writing assignments:

Rachael

It means weird, funny, playful

It is the number twenty

It is like the color of my blanket

It is playing Uno

It is the memory of Dad

Who taught me caring and kindness

When he ran away and left me with

My crying baby sister

My name is Rachael

It means I believe in horses.

September: The tile in our family room still needs to be laid down, but the new corner sofa arrives, replacing the hand me down couch from the in-laws.  The old couch was 25 years old, and my father-in-law couldn’t believe we were still using it. 

Hubby won’t be joining us up North until the 22^nd.  I wonder if the family room remodeling has been finished?

October:  Nonni (Hubby’s mom) comes to visit over fall break.

12^th – Hubby and my 11^th wedding anniversary

November:   The Little One becomes a dare devil on two-wheels.  The training wheels on her bike are removed.

17^th – My sister and my 34^th birthday

December:  We are off to Buffalo, NY to have a traditional white Christmas.  On the 27^th we’ll be getting a family portrait (all 19 people on my side), depending on how my girls behaved I might be nursing a headache today.

Have a Happy and Prosperous 2008!

Veronica Hosking

Poetry Editor