Whew…holidays are over! Now I go into my usual ‘holiday blues’ period. You have to understand; I love Holidays, Christmas songs, sweaters, the smell of fresh baked apple pie, and that gentle chill weather that seems to last about 3 minutes in Florida!…I spend the whole Fall season waiting for the Holidays and once it gets here-it’s gone in a second!
I try to take it all in, to enjoy the moments with family and friends, our outing to see the city lights the weekend before Christmas (one of my dearest memories) we spend the afternoon baking cookies and cupcakes and decorating them, then about 7pm we all get in our truck, cookies and all…..and we cruise the town, admiring the lights as we enjoy the bake goods….hmmmm you can’t beat that!
Now it’s back to work, business as usual, only I’m not in the mood for any of it:) Everyone is discussing their “New Year Resolution” and I don’t really have one! I gave up on that long time ago; I found that no matter what I set out to be as my New Year’s resolution, it doesn’t seem to be fully carried out. Am I the only one, to experience that?
As I look back at 2008 I can’t help remember my friends and family that I have lost this past year. I lost one my closest friends! JoAnn was like my sister, we had been friends since 1980, and our children grew up together. We shared so many things in our lives, friends, baby sitters, jobs, holidays. We were young and life seemed eternal, but as we start departing, we come to terms with our own existence, and I realize now that “I am in the autumn of my life”……JoAnn has passed but she has left me tons of memories, I know that I will always miss her, but I also know that she will also be with me! In my heart, …she was certainly a part of my life.