Goodbye old Year - Hello 2010!!

The last day of 2009 - wow! I put on one of my web pages that a few years ago the year 2010 could have been a science fiction title! Or maybe a song? In the year 2010, will you wonder where you've been. . . Sounds stupid, but know some songs that are far worse!!

I had a wonderful Christmas and Christmas season. Just having all my family together is so meaningful to me. My daughter, Terri, was sitting at my feet sometime during the holidays, and it struck me that those precious years, those years when I would sit and stroke her hair, were so far gone, so far away. The enormity of that just about made a scene! The tears were ever so close, just knowing that those days were so long ago. I know I am having a difficult time growing older, I just don't ever want to EVER leave this life!

But a gift that I always treasure is a gift from everyone, how do you give everyone??? Especially when there are so many now?!! Earlier this year, Easter maybe??, all my grandkids were together so Carol took a picture of them.

When Jamie was a wee little girl, probably 5 or 6, she was standing at my counter, watching me make bread, cinnamon rolls etc. She looked up at me with adoring eyes and said, "Oh Grandma, You're the BEST grandma in the whole wide world"!!! That has stuck so therefore the verse.

And Terri gathered a few of our pictures from Poncha, our wonderful beloved place our family returns to every year, and this was the result!

So these two coffee mugs are with forever pictures. Now to display these cups! I would never use them!!

I do love my pictures, especially the pictures that bring the memories of my family near.

Then shortly following Christmas, I had a birthday - certainly not my favorite things, but my husband gave me a set of Cutco knives. For anyone who knows about knives will know that this is the knife of all knives. Wonderful, lifetime warranty, free sharpening forever, free replacement forever. And an old company. And then my daughters gave me a pair of Cutco Shears. Now this is a pair of scissors! It was very funny because I currently have 6 pairs of scissors laying on my counter that won't cut a piece of paper! I told my girls I had paid a whole 99 cents a pair for those at Hobby Lobby a few years back! But to have a set of Cutco is the best. Cutco is the best, I doubt you could match them anywhere.

Well, the last post of 2009, Christmas is over, birthday is over and I am filled with love for my family and friends, in awe at all the love that is returned to me, and more than anything so very grateful for all my many many blessings. Especially blessings of people.

My wish for everyone is a year of miracles, and the wisdom to recognize the events. I think we live in such a time of miracles, but it's a day to day thing, and most miracles go unnoticed.

So until next year -