I’m so glad it’s january. I’m so glad it’s a new year. i’m so glad to be done with christmas parties and holiday obligations. i know ba-hum-bug from me.  i totally love the holidays and the cold weather (which i’m not ready to say good-bye to) but this year was just nuts trying to juggle it all. it seemed busier than normal. i think i was so pre-occupied by Carrie’s wedding and mom’s relocation in november and then working like a crazy woman in december to bust out holiday photo orders and in the process fit in several birthday and christmas parties, plan brooklyn’s bday party and completely redecorate her room in one day (8 hours….while she was at school) before i knew it it was december 23rd and i was exhausted!

so i breathe a little sigh of relief to start the new year. 2007 was an amazing year. one of great struggle but also great growth and of course i gave birth to another beautiful son.  soooo many huge huge changes. some very unexpected. it seems almost surreal to look back on it all and see how God has shaped me in just one year. how differently things look one year later….yea, it’s something to ponder and take in and appreciate how good it feels to TRUST and let go in a way that allows something bigger to come in and reshape, rework and reconcile you in ways that you never knew you needed.

i think 2008 will hold many more changes in my life and in the lives of those i love and care about. i have so many people i am praying for. so much further i hope to go, so many more questions i seek anwers to and so much i hope to learn and be apart of in the coming year.

i look forward to more change, more growth, more understanding, a deeper desire and renewed passion for life and living!

here’s to ‘08!