Richele’s Blog

Mike and I took Alyssa to see the Broadway series play Annie on Saturday.  It was wonderful!  The cool thing is, the first time I saw the play was in London and I was the same age as Alyssa!  I still drink out of my “London Loves Annie” souvenir mug.  The music, the dancing and the story were all great.  Although I have seen the play three times now and the movie at least 100, I cried!  When the orphans are singing “Maybe” and all they want is a Mommy and a Daddy it was touching.  When Daddy Warbucks sang about how one little girl changed his life, it was moving.  What a fun day we had!  We now have the play soundtrack and it is even on my i POD!  We have all been singing the tunes around the house and the favorite is “It’s a Hard Knock Life”.

Annie was wonderful and I highly recommend if you have a little girl in your family that you take her to see it! 

I am BACK to blogging!  I don’t know why I stopped or what took me so long to get back, but I am here and that is what counts!

Happy New Year!  One of my many New Year’s resolutions is to spend time doing things I love to enrich my life.  I got a head start on this when I joined an adult tap and jazz dance class back in November.  I love it!  It is SO much fun and great excercise as well.  I am also wanting to narrow down my activities and volunteering so I am not spread so thin.  I desire an organized peaceful home (which may be a stretch with 7 and 2 year old girls, but I’ll give it a shot!) so I am organizing my home room by room, junk drawer by junk drawer.  I want to create an environment each day that will welcome my family.  Santa helped me out with this by getting me an i Pod media and speakers for Christmas.  Now all I have to do is download my favorite relaxing or energizing tunes, and have music playing in the kitchen/living room at any time.  Another resolution is to deepen my already existing friendships.  I love spending time with girlfriends but usually find myself seeing them at functions when we are busy.  I am going to make it a point to have lunch with someone eash week and also to have one family over for dinner in our home at leasst once a month.  Good times are had when we take time out to relax and hang out with friends!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year.  I hope all of you did too!