A new year. A fresh start. 2011. One year ago we did not know exactly where we would be today. We had hopes and plans and we grew and we dreamed. We won some and we lost some. It was a big year. In 2010 R learned how to be three while B rocked out the tender age of one and learned how to operate on his own two feet. They learned how to lean on one another and how to annoy the crap out of each other!
We rang in the New Year last night with good friends and as I watched their little jammied kids running around our with our little jammied kids I realized how fast each year flies by. Three years ago these same kids were propped in front of the Christmas tree in their sleepers for a New Year's photo...now they are playing Wii and they have opinions! They actually didn't even sit still long enough for a photo this year!
The funny thing is that when kids grow and change it is so obvious. They look different and sound different. With adults change is not so apparent but trust me - I am different now than I was at the beginning of 2010. For many reasons. We've said goodbye to close friends who set out to chase their dreams across the country. We've made new friends. We've had great visits from long distance friends who are actually more like family. We've had loss. My grandma is no longer a phone call away for advice (baking and otherwise). RKA has a new job. Things have changed. We are the same but we are also different...constantly changing as old dreams are revised into new plans.
Truthfully, I am flip-flopping like a fish out of water. Not sure where I want 2011 to take me. But I do know that it is up for me to decide. To choose a path and stick with it. Or scrap it half way through and cut over to a whole new path. Who knows where this year will take our family. It is a blank canvas just waiting for some inspiration.
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