Welcome To the End and To a New Beginning
It seems like 2024 has passed by in a blur. Each month I created a new monthly planner setup, I would comment on how fast it seemed the time flew by.
This time of year always brings me around full circle. The end of December feels like the end for me, but January opens up a whole new realm of possibilities. December is literally the end of the calendar year, but it also has special significance for me.
It has been eighteen years now since my Dad passed away on New Years Eve. I’ll never forget that day. I always felt like New Years should be a time for celebrating, but what a fitting time for my Dad to give his send off.
It took me awhile to feel like celebrating again. It must have easily been at least ten of those years. Grief hit me at the most inconvenient times. Sometimes I relished in it, and sometimes I tried to push it away.
It wasn’t until two years ago that I realized what full circle really meant to me. My baby boy, Logan, was born. If you follow my story, you might know that Logan was born with cystic fibrosis. The first few days of his life were literally a fight to survive; but survive he did. He is now a happy, relatively healthy little boy, and I want to send out the biggest birthday wish to my little guy! HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOGAN!! I am so proud of all your accomplishments so far in these last two years.
It doesn’t go unnoticed by me that at the time of writing this, this was the time my sister and I visited my Dad for the very last time. It also ironically happens to be my mom’s birthday. As you might suspect, I am very emotional while writing this, because it brings back a lot of the memories associated with that time. I remember we took a seven hour bus ride and the snow storm that hit that night was epic.
The events of that time, so long ago, were very traumatic, but it seems fitting, because the night I had my son were also equally dramatic and traumatizing for me.
As for today, I realize that life ebbs and flows. We have good days and we have bad days. Good things happen and bad things happen, and it all comes down to us and how we react to those things that happen to us.
As far as the end of this year, we can celebrate 2024 and we can celebrate our success that we’ve made on our goals. We can then move ahead and look forward to a fresh new year, full of opportunities and expectations.
I hope the best for all of you and your families. I hope you have something wonderful happen to you, because don’t we all deserve that?
Thank you once again for your support!
Take care and hold your loved ones close!
Love,
Sandra ❤️
