Auld Lang Syne**

Another year is coming to an end, and with it another decade. It flew by just like all of the others in my recent memory. It seems that once we pass 30, there must be fewer days on the calendar. Or we forget half of the things we did, so time appears to have gone faster. Whatever it is, I don't like it.
However, since one of my New Year's resolutions is to look for the silver lining, I have to try spinning the warp speed passage of time in a positive light. To paraphrase one of Erica's favorite quotes by Abraham Lincoln, it's not the number of years in your life, it's the amount of life in your years. Abe really has something there. If we can pack as much living into however many years we have, does it matter how fast they go?
Each of you take a minute and look back on 2009 to brainstorm the "living," good and bad, that you did. It would be cooler if it were a photo montage set to music, but we'll have to settle for this. I'll use my oh-so-exciting 50th year as an example: life list, San Diego, dogs, blogging, boxes for the troops, Fred, family, wedding dress shopping, Harley riding, river rafting, campfires,writing letters and sending cards, bowling, mothering, two houses, meeting a soldier and sailor, funerals, weddings, wonderful friends, reading, crying, LAUGHING, reunions with college and high school pals, cats, football, walking and coffee with Cindy, golfing, meeting Cathi and Sara, trips, the cabin, yardwork, phone calls, surprise party, 25th anniversary, photography, holidays, good health, lots of driving, self-analyzing...you get the idea. Now to do it all again in the upcoming year, maybe with a few more risks and positive additions.
I have had a blessed year, knock on wood. I wish the best one ever for you in 2010--and I hope I will share in some of your good times.
**The Good Old Times