Great Moments of 2008

• waking up to two new puppies eyes opened on Jan 1
• snowfall in Alabama in our new home...fireplace burning, snow falling heavily
• long phone calls with a friend catching up as though we hadn't missed a beat
• having a new friend come for lunch and a short visit
• having an old friend loan me her three children while she visited other friends
• little girls giggling in my living room
• baking and sharing special times with my daughter alone
• quiet musicless dances with my husband by candlelight
• reading that a blogger lived very near my new home
• meeting for the first time a new friend, whom I had read her blog
• a day spent with that new friend shopping second hand stores with much joy together
• Easter weekend and making my daughter an outfit for the first time
• Seeing our son get ready for his first prom
• Watching our son perservere through a tough trig course
• The triumph of graduating after moving to a new state for our oldest son
• Our very first real vacation together as a family and the precious weekend we had
• Seeing an old friend from Texas at her home and picking up where we left off 7 years ago
• Opening my own business and recognizing that it was going to work
• Seeing my husband receive a medal for his work in Kuwait in front of his peers
• Driving a car that made me feel young again....and taking it home
• Seeing over and over again how God works in ways we cannot predict
• Spending a weekend with a cousin, experiencing going home for the first time since Grandma Geddie died
• Hearing my father's cancer marker had significantly improved
• Realizing that I do not have to live in fear anymore of a custody battle....it has come and gone....and they are still here.
• Appreciation of a new friend who always always feeds my soul and brings joy to my day even though we do not often get to "play"
• Rejoicing when a friend was deemed cancer free and happy in her new marriage
• Realizing that I can choose to become that which I had always dreamed of...its not too late!
• Hearing the happy news of a stranger being blessed with an unexpected baby on the way
• Rejoicing this last night of 2008, knowing it was a good year....that God is good....and tomorrow we are richly blessed with yet another year of blessings to come!