It Goes

I am sneaking in a quick year-end post instead of folding laundry because I suspect I will not have opportunity to do so again today, and I do want at least a note of conclusion to this sweet year.  In no particular order, things I am thinking about at the close of 2010 and the verge of 2011:

1) I got to have so many great adventures this year.  My roadtrip with Katie was a sweet wonderful and the best kind of sisterly connecting.  That space in time feels a bit sacred and I deeply thankful that I got to be with her and spend that week of transition with her.  Our Caldwell Family trip to Tofino that followed - so good.  Several boat trips, including our ten-day excursion - we can do it! We're doing it! We're sailors!  My journey east to visit with Shannon & Shiaheem and then up to Ontario for a retreat with Heidi - again, the kind of gift that makes me think God's favourite thing is making me feel loved. 

2) My kids are getting awesomer all the time.  We are turning into a family I really like and I'm so thankful for that.

3) Scott is a really good man. I'm lucky to be married to him.  We survived the baby years and that feels like a miracle, but mostly it feels like fresh air might be able to be breathed into our little marriage now.  There's some space that wasn't there before.  Praise be.

4) It is ridiculous how many friends I have.  Good friends, the kind of women (some men, but really, they're just the guys who wisely married my clever women friends) who make me a better person just by virtue of knowing them.  To be in this life feeling known is a most wondrous gift. To be allowed to know another, also so. I know, deep in my heart, that this wealth of mine isn't every person's and so I am all the more grateful. 

5) Writing.  I can't tell you how much writing has fed me this year.  This silly little blog full of silly little thoughts dressed up as my biggest ideas... it has fed my soul.  I am very appreciative for those who take the time to read and affirm and participate and bless and respond.  I look forward to deepening this discipline in the year to come.

6) Health.  It sounds so trite to my own self, but as people we love wrestle with bodies that do not what the soul demands, I realize that emerging from the year sound in mind and in body is its own miracle. May we use our strength for what is required as long as it is ours.

7) We have a home.  A house that is big enough with great friends all around in a safe neighbourhood with space to play and live and grow.  We are thankful to Andrew who made our life here possible by sharing this house with us.  So thankful. 

There is so much more, but my sweet girl has awoken all refreshed and ready to fold laundry. Or at least have her mother's divided attention a tiny bit less divided.

My love to each of you.  Especially you.