HAPPY 2014!

I apologize for not writing on here as often as I had hoped I would. I made it through the holidays and lived to tell about it!! All of the kids and grandkids were home and I loved every beautiful, noisy, messy moment of it!! When we all get together we number 15 now! And now were are well into the New Year.....which always leads me to do some reflecting. 2013 was an interesting year......it brought a divorce which is a lot like having a death in the family and an ending to another relationship ....but it also brought new relationships.......and happiness that some thought had been lost forever. It brought hard days because of illness, but also new opportunities for my creativity. It has seen family disagreements , but also forgiveness. I have reconnected with friends from years ago and that has made me happy. I have learned through some of these re-connections that sometimes things weren't exactly as I had perceived them to be......on one hand that made the situation better.....in another it brought pain.....and the pain led to regret....rediscovery.....and a better understanding of what had transpired. We have seen death and new life..... As I write this I am compelled to keep moving forward......hesitantly in some ways .......because life has a way of smacking you in the face. I seem to no longer run head long into the days before me.....but to take each day as it comes and to spend as much time there as I can. For we are not promised tomorrow. I have decided to try and not take things or people for granted. Not much of a new year's resolution....but more of a statement of being grateful in the moment. To realize that all in all I am blessed. Even when the days are hard......look for the good in everyone and every situation.