Well well, what a year! I’m not sure it was exactly the Best! Year! Ever! for the numsi family, but it was a year, and we are all older and maybe a little wiser. Our biggest ordeal was moving house to downsize financially, which I am very pleased we did, but we do acutely miss our old neighborhood. However, not losing sleep every time the mortgage is due is a good thing, so all in all it was a smart move. What else? Well, the difference between having a one year old and a three year old versus a two year old and a four year old is huge. This year they can both put their winter gear on, both get themselves dressed, and we play board games and memory games. And maybe 75% of the time numsi1 and numsi2 play pretty nicely together- when they are not chasing each other round and round and round the house screaming. Tonight they trooped off to bed saying “Happy NuNu” which was pretty sweet.
I am really excited for what the future holds for numsi. I have some great packaging “things” for making some beautiful gift sets. I am very much looking forward to sorting that out. Currently I am frantically working on a wholesale catalogue, price list and order form to send out to various people who expressed interest in stocking numsi products when visiting us at the Walker Art Center. And I have a magnificent to-do list to work on for marketing and so on and so forth to try and take this venture to the next level.
But tonight is New Year’s Eve which for me goes one of three ways.

• Get hideously drunk and have a fantastic time, forget everything, wake up with either an excruciating hangover or smashed front teeth from a fall sustained while skipping in a merry fashion(in fairness, the teeth thing only happened once and none of these antics have happened since I was about 23)
• Have a fun low-key night with friends; good food, good company
• Stay home with some wine, pootling on the computer, deciding on next year’s planner

Tonight was supposed to be a trip to stay with friends, but our smallest has a terrible cold so we have gone to Plan C. So now I am going to look for planners, one of my Most Special Things. Sad but true!
Happy New Year one and all. May 2010 bring everything you ever wished for (if you wish for gifts and clothing for babies and kids, we can help you there!)