And just like that another year is coming to a close! I truly cannot believe how fast this one flew by! It honestly seems like just yesterday I was working on our twenty-seventeen year in review, and looking back at my seventh year of blogging, and now here I am reflecting on, and closing out, my eighth!
Twenty-eighteen was good to us. It saw many goals being achieved and dreams coming true. Emma's dream of making the dance team being a big one (and Grace returning for a third year). Twenty-eighteen even saw me getting on stage (something I never, in my wildest dreams, thought I would do but can't wait to do again)!
Twenty-eighteen was good to us. It saw many goals being achieved and dreams coming true. Emma's dream of making the dance team being a big one (and Grace returning for a third year). Twenty-eighteen even saw me getting on stage (something I never, in my wildest dreams, thought I would do but can't wait to do again)!
While twenty-eighteen didn't find us traveling the ocean blue, it did find us traveling to Williamsburg Virginia and it did see us gathering in Hartford for alumni weekend.
Beautiful lesson blocks were completed (as were some delicious ones!), pen pals were written to and a week at summer camp full of fabulous memories and experiences was had. In twenty-eighteen the girls learned that they were, in fact, Born to Fly!
Twenty-eighteen saw jobs being found and left and then a better one found (though I'm realizing now that the later hasn't been shared about in this space yet)! It saw Dave becoming a Ranger at Wachusett and me becoming Director of Religious Education at First Parish Church in Berlin. My work there began in December, though I don't start with the children until this coming Sunday. I am excited to see where this new journey will take me as I get to know this new faith community!
We didn't do so well with our garden this year and have instead decided that this coming planting season will see it become a pollinator garden (something we have long talked about wanting). I am hopeful that twenty-nineteen may finally be the year we get chickens and bees. We'll see...
Twenty-eighteen saw Emma turn ten and my grandfather turn one hundred. Talk about milestone birthdays!
Another milestone was watching Grace bridge from Juniors to Cadettes. Heather (my dear friend and one of her leaders) had asked me to send along pictures of Grace from her Daisy, Brownie and Junior days. It was a lovely trip down memory lane and crazy to think how quickly those years have passed by.
While twenty-eighteen marked sixteen years of marriage for David and I, it also marked twenty years of being together! Two decades. Just about half our lives. There's been a lot of living in those two decades, my friends, and I dare say they'll be even more in the next two!
And so, tonight we'll eat Chinese food, reminisce about the past year and set our intentions for the coming year. With any luck twenty-nineteen will be as full of love, connection and adventure as twenty-eighteen has been! xo
Beautiful lesson blocks were completed (as were some delicious ones!), pen pals were written to and a week at summer camp full of fabulous memories and experiences was had. In twenty-eighteen the girls learned that they were, in fact, Born to Fly!
Twenty-eighteen saw jobs being found and left and then a better one found (though I'm realizing now that the later hasn't been shared about in this space yet)! It saw Dave becoming a Ranger at Wachusett and me becoming Director of Religious Education at First Parish Church in Berlin. My work there began in December, though I don't start with the children until this coming Sunday. I am excited to see where this new journey will take me as I get to know this new faith community!
We didn't do so well with our garden this year and have instead decided that this coming planting season will see it become a pollinator garden (something we have long talked about wanting). I am hopeful that twenty-nineteen may finally be the year we get chickens and bees. We'll see...
Twenty-eighteen saw Emma turn ten and my grandfather turn one hundred. Talk about milestone birthdays!
Another milestone was watching Grace bridge from Juniors to Cadettes. Heather (my dear friend and one of her leaders) had asked me to send along pictures of Grace from her Daisy, Brownie and Junior days. It was a lovely trip down memory lane and crazy to think how quickly those years have passed by.
While twenty-eighteen marked sixteen years of marriage for David and I, it also marked twenty years of being together! Two decades. Just about half our lives. There's been a lot of living in those two decades, my friends, and I dare say they'll be even more in the next two!
And so, tonight we'll eat Chinese food, reminisce about the past year and set our intentions for the coming year. With any luck twenty-nineteen will be as full of love, connection and adventure as twenty-eighteen has been! xo
