Here we are already into the second month of the year 2007. Totally wild, isn't it? It is blowing past in a whirlwind and I still feel like I am scratching at an icy surface trying to come up for air
Welcome to my world. It will never get any better than it is right this very instant. I've come to accept those limitations and to try and enjoy the moments when I can languish in the moments of a placid time of sanity and quiet. Those times only seem to last nano seconds and so should be savored and held in highest esteem.
Since the last entry Halloween was a huge success with the grandbabies all dressed adorably...we had 2 of the 3 muskateers and a little black kitty with pink trim. All made a killing in the candy department and even had enough for us adults.
The grandsons celebrated birthdays and turned 8 & 7 and Pat had a birthday and turned 64. Octber was a happening kinda month.
November brought us Thanksgiving, for which I worked to ensure that I could be off for Christmas, and it worked.
Christmas was fantastic, and probably one of our best ever. We had the family over for Christmas dinner and we temporarily lost one of the grandchildren in a pile of Christmas paper when packages were being unwrapped.
Then there was New Year's and I worked it too, so that I could be off for Mardi Gras which will be on Feb 20th this year and we will all be riding a float in it again this year.
Pat and I will also be riding our Harleys in 3 other parades this carnival season...one on the 11th and two on the 18th and the 18th is also Mama's birthday.
March will also bring a visit from the new found sister and her two children right about the same time as the St. Patty's parade, which we simply MUST attend, and that falls around our anniversary.
April will bring tax time, my birthday (which I plan to sneak in silently) and JAZZFEST!!!!!!! And on the 20th, we have a wedding that I have been in the process of planning for my stepson and his future bride.
Then we are into May....sweet May, which takes us to my beloved Ireland and Scotland for a vacation, a much needed vacation. I am so tickled that John Clod is going to be joining us for this trip. It is the trip of a lifetime and I can't imagine him not going with us.
I can't even think of what comes after that. I know that John Clod and Pat want to plan a trip for us to go on the bikes somewhere in late summer or early fall and I am all for that, especially since the two of them got new bikes. In a sense....so did I. You see, when Pat got his new one, I more or less inherited his 2004 Wideglide because he and John Clod feel like I need to get away from my 1997 one and get onto a fuel injected model that performs better in the mountains and in cooler weather. I've agreed, but it'll need some "modifications".
Well...still, it is a new year, and I am ready to kick it off!
