Holiday 2009

Happy Holidays everyone! Here’s a quick synopsis of 2009 for the Woodside Dawes.

Janie spent the year teaching, learning, enjoying life, transporting kids to various activities, and making an extra effort to appreciate all the great things in her life . (while trying to forget that the big 40th is coming much faster than desired)

Paul resides mainly at iControl, working, traveling and stressing too much; but still enjoying the creativity and challenges that all this brings. Free time involves immersing himself in family and longing for the days when he will again have free time to ski more than 3 days a season, windsurf, make big pots, and drive big tractors in the yard..

Grayson 1001 (or 9 for those non binary folks), is closing in on his black belt for taekwondo, swimming on a swim team, gearing up for ski season and then baseball season, and starting guitar lessons in the new year. Even with all this he manages to find time to figure out ways to negotiate for more time with his DS (be thankful if you don’t know what this means) and more money (without requiring actual work) to increase his already enormous collection of Pokemon cards. Future career: Fast-twitch video game research subject.

Eme 0111 (7), taekwondo, swim, and violin are her pastimes as well as skiing and continuing to sketch and draw on every blank piece of paper she comes across. Eme is a can-do person who can always be counted on to step up and assist or help at the slightest request. Her Pokemon collection is second only to Grayson’s but she has discovered that collecting cans and bottles and doing extra chores earns her the extra cash needed to both enhance this collection and increase Grayson’s debts to her. Future career: Personal Banker to Grayson.

Anna 0101 (5), has started playing violin in addition to soccer, taekwondo, swim and skiing. Anna began kindergarten here at home and is rapidly becoming a solid reader. She loves to meet new people, be around any people, and make all people happy. Every person Anna meets is her friend (though she is not encumbered by names). She can almost always be found visiting our neighbors Rob and Berkeley or outside picking flowers to give away. Anna enjoys Pokemon as well, but mostly because that’s where she can meet interesting new people. Future career: Personal Greeter.

Neve 0011 (3), last but not the least, particularly when it comes to volume. Neve eagerly awaits the day when she can join in all the reindeer games. Until then, she will accuse the reindeers of ‘taunting’ her with said games. Neve has decided that she is in charge of the Dawes ship and is notorious for saying outrageous things at the appropriate time (e.g. ‘Happy Holidays, Mom!’ in response to a frustrated Mom Target shopping expedition). She loves music and is always singing, humming, or yelling (Neve’s new genre of music). Neve is easily identified because she is either talking much louder than everyone else or screaming “wait for me!”. Future Career: Bullhorn (or CEO).