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As I have been reading through the year’s recaps all over blogland, I have been considering the manner that I wanted to recap the last year.  I knew I wanted to recap all the crafty stuff I have accomplished the last year, but I wanted something more too.  And, I stumbled across a cool idea that I thought would work.

My friend, Devon, just posted an interesting meme to her blog about her last year.    The instructions were to make a list of the first sentence(s) of the first entry you wrote for each month.

1. January: Just had to share this with you all! I do warn you that this will completely get stuck in your head though.
2. February: Well, I am sitting in our union on campus because there was some miscommunication about a meeting that I thought that I needed to be at right now, and instead of walking back to my office in the frigid cold outside, I thought that I would just sit and write for a little instead.
3. March: I am continually amazed by the fact that it takes me so long to get into the swing of the semester.
4. April: I was reading on Dooce today about this photo exhibit, and I thought that I would share.
5. May: I am just sitting here thinking about how to attack all the grading that I have sitting around my office.
6. June: As we were walking through all the stalls of cool old marble mantles and cool old prints, there was one lone stall that looked like it was full of modern antique furniture.
7. July: This afternoon, I had the most lovely surprise waiting for me.
8. August: Today is going to be a busy day.
9. September: Around the country, this is the day that kids go back to school.
10. October: Just thought I would check in and let you know a little more about what I was up to…
11. November: This week has been a little crazy.
12. December: Over the last week, I played a little.

A couple of things struck me while looking through my old posts.  Sharing is becoming a larger part of what I am doing here.  I guess it would seen obvious to some that the purpose of a blog would be to share, but I am not sure that is why all this started for me.  I actually think I started a blog because I was asking my students to complete one at the time, and I thought it only fair that I complete one as well.  That was a long time ago, and I didn’t really embrace this space until much later.

I look forward to the next year and all the adventures it promises to bring forth.  I know that I will have this little space of the universe to share those adventures.