{"id":3287,"date":"2015-12-31T17:32:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T21:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=3287"},"modified":"2015-12-31T17:32:39","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T21:32:39","slug":"year-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=3287","title":{"rendered":"A Thanks and a Year in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_0151\"<\/a>First, I would be most remiss not to thank all of you who have spent some of your precious time in 2015 huddled over your phones and your computers, your coffee cups and your wine glasses in hand (sometimes simultaneously perhaps), reading stuff written by some mom that lives on an island.<\/p>\n

Bless you. I am so grateful for each of you.<\/p>\n

\"100_8747\"<\/a>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m no more immune to the impulse for reflection at the year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s end than anyone else, so I went through some of the year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s posts the other day, and picked out a few of the more popular posts that also reflect many of the year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s highlights.<\/p>\n

\"100_8674\"<\/a>This year began with The Fountain of Starbucks<\/a>, where I chronicle my lovely experience of being given (not offered, mind you) the senior citizens\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 discount on coffee.<\/p>\n

Then in March, in Yet Again, I Still Haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Fallen Off the Face of the Earth<\/a>, I wrote a bunch of mumble jumble about several things, including how busy my semester schedule was after picking up a couple of extra classes. Mainly, I just like the title on this one, but it also reminded me that I never published the promised post on the time I thought I was dead, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll try to clean that up soon and hit publish on the gem that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s kept the masses in suspense.<\/p>\n

May brought a reflection, Better Than Our First Drafts<\/a>, based on my writing lab experiences of working with seniors on college application essays, on what our drafts say about us.<\/p>\n

In June, my teaching experiences of the past year or two led to a list of funny things said in my hallowed halls<\/a> of academia.<\/p>\n

\"100_7045\"<\/a>The second list in June was my annual summer list<\/a> of how to celebrate summer, this time compiled largely by Baby-Girl.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_0578\"<\/a>And because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m always current, Girl Meets West #7<\/a>, detailing our summer vacation, came out in November. Before this year, I would have wondered why anyone even marginally coherent would still be writing about a summer vacation in November, but then I found myself with two new classes to prepare for, including an AP level class, and well, here we are. In fact, the next installment of the tale will come out in January, which means I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll probably finish the summer vacation series just in time for next summer.<\/p>\n

Well, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a wrap for 2015. So, whether you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re celebrating this new year with Dom or Starbucks, with all-night parties or stay-at-home movies, with milk chocolate or dark chocolate, may your celebration and your 2016 be blessed.<\/p>\n

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First, I would be most remiss not to thank all of you who have spent some of your precious time in 2015 huddled over your phones and your computers, your coffee cups and your wine glasses in hand (sometimes simultaneously perhaps), reading stuff written by some mom that lives on an island. Bless you. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islandlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}