Greetings From 2010!

Cousin Todd and I

2010!
It's been a while since I last posted anything, and quite a bit has been keeping me busy!

November was beautiful in Buffalo, NY and it also marked the 3rd anniversary of my Grandma's death. Grandma was a sister at St. Mary of the Angels convent. She was the coolest sister there for sure. The sisters used to live at an old, castle-like building down the road, and as a kid I remember visiting with my mom and siblings every Wednesday. We would enter the big old wooden door and be careful not to step on the cracks of the greenish colored flagstone brick that led up to the door and into the entrance way. the nuns were notified of visitors by their own indivual bell tone. To this day, I never understood how the heck the sisters could differentiate between the bell tones.
We would eat lunch, sometimes in the lunch room, and sometimes in a room down the hall where we'd watch cartoon network all afternoon. ("Scooby Doo" and "Flintstones" being the favorites) then we would spin around the tall pillars and run up and down the ramp until the grouchy sisters would scold us.
Grandma always always always treated us to ice cream-skippy cups!-a tradition which continued to the new convent and even if we only came for a short visit. I remember one of the last times we came to visit; she didn't really know who we were, but she just KNEW we needed skippy cups!
I have so many memories from the convent....it would take many many blog posts to write about them all, and I'm sure I'd lose many readers if I decided to post all of them....:D
But with all that said, it was a nice time to visit the convent with my mom, see the sisters, bring flowers to the chapel (where Grandma would put any flowers we ever gave her anyway) and see Grandma's grave.

Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday of the year. We go to Atlanta and see almost our whole Galucki family. It is a very fast weekend, but full of traditions (polar bear jump into Lake Lanier, RISK tournament, etc.), food, late nights, football games and fun. Every year I am so thankful for how our family grows in love...and the new addition are legnthly conversations about the GFL...Galucki Football Pool which keeps us all in regular emails and banter between NFL teams :)


A week of stress for exams, a wonderful Christmas spent at home with my family, and cousin Ashlee, and last night's New Year's Eve party with my family at our house has brought me to the end of 2009 and looking forward to 2010.

Last night, (led by our fearless leader Derek) proved that no matter how old you get, idiocy still runs in our family....we have had a history of doing stupid things; throwing snowballs at cars, stomp rockets across the road... I'm not sure why we do it...it is bad! Like I said, sometimes we just can't help the idiocy. honestly. anyways, we began building little snowmen in the road, but the one got a bit too big, and we put a party hat on it. Our road is a relatively rural road, and at 1am nobody was driving down it, but the ones that did just went around Mr. Frosty. Except for the grumpy man who stopped and told us he was calling the cops unless we removed it. We eventually removed it, but the police came to the door, much to my dad's surprise, and asked about the snowmen in the road..."What snowmen?" my uncle asked as they went out to look...(we had cleared it up). "No, officer, no underage drinking...just legal adults building snowmen in the road."


So, there you have it...I feel much better to have updated this blog....2009 was a great year (NORWAY! ;) ) but I have a feeling that 2010 is going to be great, and I look forward to it.

God Bless you all in 2010!!


Happy New Year! Καλες Υιορτες!!