At years End.....

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December.


Oh, 2015.  What a year.  You were kind to us.  Thank you for the gift of the lessons we learned.  Your struggles helped us grow stronger.   We skied, we survived a snowy, snowy winter, we traveled, we stayed  at home and survived our spouses travel,  we played. We remembered, we grieved as we said goodbye to a grandfater, to 2 neighbors.  We listened, we tried, we were filled with joy, we camped, we laughed and celebrated with friends and family, we grew, we loved.   We toasted in the new year with our best friends.   Ones who get us without even having to say a word.  More of all of this in 2016. Yes. Please.

For 2016, new adventures await.   I can't even imagine what is in store for us.  For resolutions, of course there is always a way to better myself to be kinder and gentler with myself and others, as a wife, a daughter, mother.  Get in shape, eat healthy, feel good, yadda, yadda yadda.  For my favorite resoultion posts read here  and here.

Cheers to the best year ever.  2016, please be kind to us :)

31 December

At years end......
Favorite 2014 moments.

2014 Was a good year, and a full year up and down and all over the place, as life should be when you are living and growing.......

Tonight we will spend a short time out with friends, (2nd annual!) and then back to little children trying to stay up as late as they can.  Tomorrow morning our traditional sparkling cider toast.

I love New years so much....the chance to reflect back on what the last year has been and what will come next. It is revitalizing to begin anew, and decide how to fill up that fresh blank page in a new notebook, a new markered list of goals.   How we continue to grow and change and make things better.....how to craft a life that is just right for us.  Because THIS IS IT, these are the days.....there is no more waiting for it. We do this everyday because it matters. 

Here's wishing you a happy new year, wherever your life may be.  I hope it is a  healthy and happy one full of the people and things that you love. CHEERS!