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Despite the mommy brains, I learned to spin and practiced a few new (to me) knitting techniques. This year I made eight hats, three pairs of mitts, two pairs of socks and one scarf. <\/p>\n
I have also taken to examine my lifestyle habits in terms of where I go on regular basis and how I get there. This was particularly relevant to how much I bike. After some exhaustive wheel gazing I determined that despite only saving me one not quite full tank of gas per year, biking is really fun.<\/p>\n This year for whatever reason we missed our usual vacations, i.e. Cres and Vermont\/New Hampshire. I am looking forward to re-establishing these in the coming years. We made up by going to Zagreb and London in April.<\/p>\n While Chris and I were narrowly avoiding the Royal Wedding in London, the boys were pampered in Zagreb and nearby spa towns. <\/p>\n We made the best of June while sailing in the pool. I’ve taken to taking the kids to the library at least once a week. If I have read a lot this year, I have not read much literature. I barely read a few of the Canada Reads books and I read Hornby’s Slam which I picked up used on the South Bank. I finally got around to reading a collection of short stories “Pokazi koliko me cijenis” which my sister gave me a few years ago. All of these were enjoyable.<\/p>\n An interesting and successful experiment was completed this year as we have signed up for CSA (community supported agriculture). This made for very happy and healthy eating throughout the growing season. <\/p>\n By fall, firstborn has graduated from preschool. He later started kindergarten and is so far enjoying it. <\/p>\n September brought lots of excitement with the birth of Markus.<\/p>\n After Markus was born, grandparents stayed with us for a while to spoil the older two while I am taking are of the baby.<\/p>\n This year I have been very exhausted, mommy brained and mostly focused on getting the most essential tasks done and caring for my family. Despite this mostly myopic lifestyle I was glad to have spent time with friends and family. At work, home, in the neighbourhood and overseas, while knitting or watching movies with kids or without, I don’t know how coherent I was but I was glad to have wonderful and interesting people to talk to this year. <\/p>\n![\"CIMG6809\"\/](\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5214\/5480233171_d10b6060fb.jpg\")
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\nFebruary<\/p>\n![\"CIMG6889\"\/](\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5255\/5554663766_4661f02c5c.jpg\")
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\nMarch<\/p>\n![\"IMG_1784\"\/](\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5069\/5689882346_6873f6b2c4.jpg\")
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\nApril<\/p>\n![\"unuci](\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5103\/5640318528_11f8296da4.jpg\")
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\nMay<\/p>\n![\"CIMG7175\"\/](\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5071\/5845779106_27d3ae1fd0.jpg\")
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\nJune<\/p>\n![\"\"\/](\"http:\/\/farm7.staticflickr.com\/6135\/5986364008_e47b0c5917.jpg\")
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\nAugust<\/p>\n![\"IMG_5637\"\/](\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7149\/6609203971_c7b6cc3c93.jpg\")
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\nSeptember<\/p>\n![\"CIMG7747\"\/](\"http:\/\/farm7.staticflickr.com\/6232\/6275034388_e3df28397f.jpg\")
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\nOctober<\/p>\n
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