Not off to a good start

One of my New Year's Resolutions was to make sure I posted on my Blog a few times a week. So here it is - January 26th and I'm posting for the first time.

Things have not changed too much here over the past several months. I spent much of November and December putting together holiday gifts. My favorite is an Advent Tree that I created for Nora, my cousin's youngest daughter. She is in love with all things sparkly and of course, pink. I created 25 mini shopping bags out of pink paper and ribbon and labeled them with a day leading up to Christmas. I had a lot of fun purchasing tiny gifts for each bag. Mostly they were filled with earings, bracelets and candy, but also included: temporary tatoos, many Hello Kitty items and erasers. The tree was finished off with a hot pink tree skirt (I love Hobby Lobby) and a customized box containing all the trimmings.

I was able to make a visit to Massachusetts in December for work and also catch up with a bunch of friends (I miss everyone!). The current and former Res/Title crowd met up for dinner at Sakura Tokoyo in Worcester. We used to have our holiday party there - so it was a fitting location. Check out Julie trying to catch zuchinni! I also had an opportunity to catch up with many of my work contacts and to do some visits with Anthony.

Cascade Settlement Agency is off to a good start. We have been up and running since October 1st! Here are the girls I work with holding a copy of our first funding check.

I guess that's it for today. I have some holiday pics of Max that I'll post later.