Year End Meme

1. What did you do in 2012 that you’d never done before?
Turned three.  Became toilet trained.  Was a big sister for a whole year.  Entered the three's class at preschool.  

2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?


No.  and No.  

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?



I guess not.  

4. Did anyone close to you die?



No, thank God.  

5. What countries did you visit?



We stayed in the country but Veronica did go to NJ with me in September. 

6. What would you like to have in 2013 that you lacked in 2012?

Veronica is doing just great.  I hope she has a few more letters she can pronounce in 2013.  

7. What dates from 2012 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?

I guess none, she started school on August 27.  She turned three on May 14.  

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?



Veronica has really come into her own, she finished speech therapy this year.  She is so funny and sweet.  She is a great big sister and a very patient and kind little sister.  

9. What was your biggest failure?

None.  She gets her feelings hurt very easily and cries for five minutes if she even senses disapproval but what can you do.  

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?

She had one ear infection, her only one.  She had some colds and some random fevers.  

11. What was the best thing you bought?

Veronica really likes these Hello Kitty shoes we bought.  And also her Hello Kitty underwear.  

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?

Veronica's, of course.  She is a happy and sweet person and she is the best sharer you could ever want to meet.  

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?



To be fair, I should say Veronica's.  She sometimes gets very upset for no reason and just yells in your ear forever, or what feels like forever.  

14. Where did most of your money go?

Preschool, ice cream.  

15. What did you get really excited about?

Veronica loves school and she loves Maria.  

16. What song will always remind you of 2012?

I have to say Call me Maybe for all the kids, but Veronica sang it too.  

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:


– happier or sadder? Happier.
– thinner or fatter? Fatter, heavier, but really just growing.


– richer or poorer? Richer, I guess.  

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?



Sleeping.  

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?

  

Yelling.  

20. How did you spend Christmas?


We were here, for the first time with all my siblings and my mom.  

21. Did you fall in love in 2012?
I guess not.  She loves Felicity a lot.  

22. What was your favorite TV program?


She loves Max & Ruby.  

23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?


No.

24. What was the best book you read?
They just started reading Ramona.  

25. What was your greatest musical discovery?

She loves Call Me Maybe.  

26. What did you want and get?
She wanted a unicorn dreamlight for Christmas and she got one.  She loves it.  

27. What did you want and not get?
I don't know.  She wanted a pretend kitty and didn't get one.  

28. What was your favorite film of this year?
Madagascar III is the only movie she saw in the theater this year.  

29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
She turned three in May and we had a party and a Tinkerbell cake and she had a fine old time, she was super sweet.   

30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
She is still a little shy.  We had to leave a little birthday party this year because she was so nervous.  She has a lot of sensory issues, and she has to get her air out, i.e. lean on the damned table like she does, a lot here lately.  I hope she grows out of it.  

31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2012?
Veronica, like Maria,  likes dresses and no jeans.  NO JEANS.  

32. What kept you sane?


Preschool.  Ballet.   

33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
I don't know.  Yo Gabba Gabba?    

34. What political issue stirred you the most?


NONE.  

35. Who did you miss?


I think she misses us when she's in school.  She misses her friend Brooke, who is in the Young Threes class.  

36. Who was the best new person you met?


Maybe Pearl?  Rosie?  Sylvie?  New friends from school.  

37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2012.


Veronica may have thought she was a little sister, but she has been a great big sister this whole time.  

38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.


Ha, here is a song Veronica sings over and over.  Pa da na na, Pa da na na, ra na na na na na na na na na pa na na na.  It's a V. Orginal.