Happy New Year... I know, I know...I blew it with the advent thing...the best laid plans of mice and men...um...er...how does that go? So...no problem, I deleted those entries and will now continue to add to my blog in this new year...2006.
To those of you who have grown weary of checking and checking to see if I had anything at all to say...thanks for checking one more time...I do have a few things to say.
I like what a new year can offer. At work it is a fresh start. Forget the fact that you missed your sales goal by a country mile...here we go start again. At home it is a time of change as well. Tage has a driver's license...I don't need to drive anyone anywhere anymore. Between him and Aimee the bases are covered. Peggy and I go a lot of places alone. Just the two of us (this is a benefit)...but I miss that "being needed" part a bit. It seems strange...you would think it would come as a relief...but for whatever reason...I am a little sad about it all.
New years always reminds me of 1969...the year that we moved from the 60's into the 70's. That year my family had relocated to Whitehorse...a fresh start. Moving seemed to be a good way to do that. My dad managed a motel...cleverly named "The Airport Chalet", right by, you guessed it, The Whitehorse International Airport. My brothers and I cleaned the bar of the hotel every Sunday morning. Any money we found we could keep...we found more than money! I was probably the only kid in grade 1 who had a swizzlestick and garnish sword collection to show for show and tell.
For new years my Mom thought it would be funny to dress up my older brother as Father Time and me as a baby to represent the new year. It seemed funny until it seemed like it might really happen. I guess a baby is a good way to represent a new year. I just wasn't going to be that baby. Unless I repressed the memory, I can't remember if I did it or not. Probably not.
We will start with our small group again next week...studying John Eldridge's book Epic. I am looking forward to it. It is exciting to think what we will all experience again together...we took a long break over Christmas...time to start again.
Starting again...we all need to do that from time to time...it is important to draw a line in the sand (or snow) and decide to start again.
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