Blessed New Year!

Good bye 2008 ~ For many it was a sorry year, but for us, it was, basically a very good year. We went to Haiti last winter and it was the trip of my life, thus far and I look forward to going back next month. That started the year and we ended with the birth of our fourth grandson, Levi, who was born December 18th. So everything in between often paled in comparison. Our church denomination celebrated its 300th Anniversary in 2008 and it was a good Annual Conference in Richmond. The year ended for me in the basement of the home of a Sister in Christ while a group of us played dominoes. We pretty much laughed out the old year in to the new. It was a good way to end the year. Thanks to my youngest, I have discovered and come to love the writings of Patrick Taylor. Good Irishman he is. Thanks to keeping old addresses I was also able to find and reconnect with my closest cousin ever, who is hoping to come back to Canada from Ireland this year. Hurrah! Once she arrives there's a trip to Canada in the wind.

So what of 2009? Well, I started by cleaning out areas of clutter in the dining room, filling up a whole trashbag. Not a bad start. I decanted some herbal meds today and we have plenty to eat for supper. Better than 90% of the rest of the world. I have a journal to begin for this year and I'm really praying to be diligent enough to keep it. New year resolutions are rarely kept, but a few of mine for this year are: to be more positive in thought; to be more polite and kind and to study my Bible more faithfully. Not a bad start. Of course, you can add in all the lose weight and get fit and all those things that I "plan" to do, but know from past years it takes some planning and effort. We'll see. We already begin the year with a good lot of "busy-ness". Every weekend in January is taken and the first weekend of February I'll be in Haiti. I do have a few weeks off from there, but then we're headed to Indiana for a Disaster Trip in April ~ San Diego looms in June, and, if Beth immigrates, I'll be headed to Canada sometime. I have a feeling the year will go quickly. Ah, so I'll be closer to heaven than last year, so.

I thought I ought to do a bloggy for the new year and I guess this is it. May all my dear readers be blessed this year and while the economics of our nation appear to be in greater peril than in 2008, we must remember that money can't buy it all. Let us all learn more of working together for the common good of all. God bless us every one.