New Year's Eve 2009

Another year here and gone,just like that. Or so it seems.
In many ways a long year, in other ways, gone too quickly.
A year of many changes.
I am most happy to see us phase into 2010.
I have been reading a bit on what to call the first decade of the 2000's.
It's a strange sound on the tongue for sure.

The mantel is cleaned off, the tree is down and ornaments put away.Tabletops cleared of holiday decorating and dusted and cleaning done today.
The bows are off the wreaths, although the wreaths remain on the entry doors.
New candles are burning around the house, as the radio station is playing it's afternoon classical music.
A fresh pot of coffee is just brewed, and the 3 inches of snow that was on the ground this morning, is mostly melted off roadways and walkways.

We are hunkering in tonight, and watching mindless tv and reading.
I will put off my usual organizing I do on the last day of the year.
The filing of receipts, the balancing of the checkbook, the writing of thank yous from the holiday season.
Tonight and tomorrow I am just going to 'be' and a good book is ready here to read.

I am wondering what the new year holds; if it means a relocation again for jobs we need to find. Or the ability to stay here and continue in our home and renovating.
But for the present I will sit and watch the sunset, tomorrow the sunrise,
as these are two of my favorite things to do.

To you my friends, may the new year bring you just what you want.

Onward we go.

The stockings are hung....

The stockings are hung and the tree is up and the gifts are wrapped and hip hip hooray we have 10 inches of snow on the ground this morning.
We are right in the the middle of this eastern snow storm coming up from NC through VA and Wash DC is to be hit with 1-2 feet of snow.
Let's see if I'm still saying hip hip hooray after several days when I haven't received the mail or daily newspapers.

But for this morning when I plan to drink lots of coffee and bake lots of cookies, I'm going to enjoy the snow falling outside.
We shoveled the driveway before we went to bed last night to prepare in advance the snowfall that was predicted. Alas this morning, I can't even see where we cleared the sidewalk and driveway.
I hear the snowplows outside and the road is clear enough to drive.

Yesterday at the store you would think that no one had food at their house the way everyone was pushing and shoving and loading their carts to the brim.
We shall see how long this 'snowed in' situation lasts.

Hopefully the airport(Dulles) is open by Tues. a.m. when our daughter flies overnight from SF, coming home for a long Christmas break.

Merry Christmas and happy snow day to all of you today!