Daily Archives: December 1, 2009
Is it really December?
So, it’s December 1st and like many, I’m wondering where the heck did the year go? I always look forward to the long Thanksgiving weekend, but this year I was actually ready to go back to work yesterday. It’s odd how you beg for a break when you are at work, but then you are always ready for a change after a while. Always looking forward. Always ready for a change or something new.
But the tree is up and the Santas are out. I’m always happy to see the decorations, hear the holiday music, see the sights and smell the scents of Christmas. I’m out of money and still have shopping to do. Gifts to wrap. Food to make. Cards to sign and mail. But through the hustle of it all, I still try to pause for a moment and actually enjoy it. It’s the one time of the year I never want to see end, although there’s no choice but to keep moving forward just like everything else, right?
Next year is already shaping up to fly by too because the focus will be on us attending classes to get licensed for adoption. We have our autobiographies to write, a life book to put together, interviews, classes once a week for 11 weeks straight. 11 weeks! That’s 2 and half months right there. It’s going to fly by.
Remember being in grade school and it felt like the year was never going to end. The summers were long, and so were the weekends although I spent half my Saturday in bed. Four seasons were so distinct. There was no 70 degree weather in November like there has been this year. What happened to those times? I can’t say I’d want to do them all over again, maybe if I could keep everything I know now, but otherwise, heck no. No reason to go back. Just keep going forward.
We keep going forward.
Life is indeed a journey, but it doesn’t matter where we start or where we end. It’s all the same. But the path in the middle means the world to us, and it’s always different.
Moving forward….
