- waking up to two new puppies eyes opened on Jan 1
- snowfall in Alabama in our new home…fireplace burning, snow falling heavily
- long phone calls with a friend catching up as though we hadn’t missed a beat
- having a new friend come for lunch and a short visit
- having an old friend loan me her three children while she visited other friends
- little girls giggling in my living room
- baking and sharing special times with my daughter alone
- quiet musicless dances with my husband by candlelight
- reading that a blogger lived very near my new home
- meeting for the first time a new friend, whom I had read her blog
- a day spent with that new friend shopping second hand stores with much joy together
- Easter weekend and making my daughter an outfit for the first time
- Seeing our son get ready for his first prom
- Watching our son perservere through a tough trig course
- The triumph of graduating after moving to a new state for our oldest son
- Our very first real vacation together as a family and the precious weekend we had
- Seeing an old friend from Texas at her home and picking up where we left off 7 years ago
- Opening my own business and recognizing that it was going to work
- Seeing my husband receive a medal for his work in Kuwait in front of his peers
- Driving a car that made me feel young again….and taking it home
- Seeing over and over again how God works in ways we cannot predict
- Spending a weekend with a cousin, experiencing going home for the first time since Grandma Geddie died
- Hearing my father’s cancer marker had significantly improved
- Realizing that I do not have to live in fear anymore of a custody battle….it has come and gone….and they are still here.
- Appreciation of a new friend who always always feeds my soul and brings joy to my day even though we do not often get to “play”
- Rejoicing when a friend was deemed cancer free and happy in her new marriage
- Realizing that I can choose to become that which I had always dreamed of…its not too late!
- Hearing the happy news of a stranger being blessed with an unexpected baby on the way
- Rejoicing this last night of 2008, knowing it was a good year….that God is good….and tomorrow we are richly blessed with yet another year of blessings to come!
