Back from the dead!!!

So I just had to list my blog on a scrapbook blog I registered on and there I was back on my blog. What ever happened??? Life I guess. That's what happened.
Anyway, I truly deeply wish everyone the best for 2011. The year hasn't started out to great for me and that only makes me appreciate more simple happiness and passing it on to all of you. 2010 is over and my plan to stay in touch with everyone more thru my blog and give you guys insight into our daily lives and I know, muffing pictures and videos on top of everything else, has pretty much fallen thru. Again, I just don't know how everyone does it in the twitter and facebook world. I stress enough over listening to voicemail and discovering that I received text messages that have been lingering on my phone.
So, here I am - again. Hopeful that this year will be a better blog year than last year. My word for 2010 was simple and man did it have a lot of impact on my life. I have organized, purged and simplified our home and ultimately my life. Re-thinking how much I really need that gorgeous something or beautiful something else.
I was truly be able to be thankful this Thanksgiving, as I received a phone call that now all my cc's are paid off. And on top of that I got $347.43 going back into my account. Unfortunately, the savings of having to make cc payments will now go into putting Nadya in daycare, which will cost us a whopping $175/ wk, $700/ mo & $9100/ yr. And since our little girl didn't make the cut-off date, we're looking at another 2 years which brings our total to $18, 200. HAPPY NEW YEAR to me. What a nice vacation that could be.
So for now we keep on living day by day, hoping to make it thru like so many others.
My word for 2011 is grow. While last year's word came to me more easily and in some kind of a forced way, I thought about it more this time around. I guess, the defination behind the word has always been there for me but I was just looking for the right word. And as I'm looking for some fancy meanings, I kept going back to grow. Just like simple it's such a simple word with such a powerful impact and already as the year is starting out for me (and actually ended), I find myself needing to grow. I'll spare you all the details of my defination and the stories and drama nehind it and just hope to refer to it thruout the year and look back on it in 12 months.
So without boring you guys any more with my rambling, I do hope that I'll be able to add some photos of the girls next time - since that's what everyone is really looking for anyway (I don't blame you!)
Again, happy happies and best wishes to everyone, -Muffin mom (a.k.a. Claudia)