Hello, fresh new year.
Hello, new home, with your endless empty drawers and blank walls and bare refrigerator shelves. May we fill you with joy, laughter, and memories beyond our wildest dreams.
Hello, frigid temperatures and gray skies. Bleak you are, but you are home.
Hello, boxes. And more boxes. And totes and tubs and bags and suitcases. May you unpack yourself. Posthaste.
Hello, new opportunities. New friends. New job. New grocery store. New drivers' license photo. New time zone. New phone number.
Hello, year-of-our-last-baby-bump. Oh, may I treasure the next 4 months, watching my waistline disappear. May I treasure each new movement and kick. May I cherish each moment with my still-baby Erin and ever-growing Seth before you, little nameless one, join our crazy, beautiful, chaotic life.
Hello, season of multi-generational family living arrangements. Be gracious to us, as we navigate sharing space, grand/parenting responsibilites, and remote controls. Unconventional, but what a blessing to have this time, however long it be, before we send Gramp-e off to the Ukraine for good.
Hello, 2012. It is surreal, how familiar your entry to that of 2009. Be calmer, please. Quieter. Easier. Happier.
But whatever you bring us, 2012, welcome.
6 comments:
Happy 2012 to you and yours. A very fresh post for the new year.
Tracy
Happy 2012 to you, my friend! Looks like a grand beginning...filled with lots of mini-beginnings. Blessings to you...
May God bless your re-transition to Ohio. Glad you're here.
Would love to hear more about Gramp-e going to Ukraine, or did I miss that in another post. You know my heart for that country as it gave me my first three children. Love to all!
Prayers for a blessed 2012 for you and your family! I wish you the happiest of new beginnings:)
Happy 2012 to you as well sweet friend.
Wanna see a Baby Bump pic.
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