And just like that, it’s 2010.

It’s safe to say that 2009 wasn’t our best blogging year.  It’s even safer to say that 2009 wasn’t our best housebuilding year.  We tried.  We really did.  It’s just… there were a lot of distractions.

There was this distraction:

Hi.  I’m two.

If you’ve lived with a two-year old, then we don’t really need to explain any more.  If you haven’t, imagine a short, cute, demon that picks up everything you put down and moves it, objects to every plan, enters every day with an agenda of their own, and is otherwise generally ornery and objectionist.  And cute.  Did we mention cute?

Then there was this:

Hi.  I’m the weather forecast from most of the summer.

It rained pretty much every day through June and July.  It rained enough that Mainers started getting twitchy and lakes overflowed.  Rain, rain, rain.  Since the majority of the work planned for this year was exterior, you might say that this caused a problem.

And, of course, there was this distraction:

Hi.  I’m the U.S. economy.

We all went through this, right?  No need to elaborate?  Didn’t think so.

And, finally, there is this distraction:

Yep.  Another cute, short, ornery, objectionist demon will be arriving in a few weeks.

So 2009 was a bit of a bust house-wise, but we hold out high hopes for 2010.  The new baby is actually working in our favor.  The last major overhaul of the house was probably around the time we turned a junk-filled room into a nursery.  And now that we’ve got another one on the way, well…Annabel will be needing a big girl room, right?