New Year

First Thing:
I'm sitting here watching My Sister's Keeper on New Year's Eve with my entire family in the living room. There's a fire in the fireplace and cake and truffles on the counter. A pot of coffee is brewing and we're prepared to bring in the new year in our low key way. I can't remember the last time my entire family spent New Year's Eve together and it's wonderful and I'm not sure that it will ever be this way again. We'll have a new addition to our family, a boy, for the first time ever. And I'm so excited for that but it's nice to cherish these moments with my family because who knows that the future holds and where I'll be living in a year or how I'll be celebrating New Year's Eve.
Second Thing:
2010 holds many exciting things: new roommates, graduation, a new job, a marriage, another overseas adventure, a new home, and lots and lots more unknowns. Sometimes the unknown scares me, but this time it doesn't despite the many unknowns that are ahead. I have my last semester of college to celebrate and then I get to face the rest of the unknowns with my Mr. Norton.
There's an hour left until the best year of my life will begin. And tomorrow marks the 7-4=3 equation (which could possibly be the 8-4=4 equation, maybe half way there maybe more, that remains unknown). It doesn't matter though it'll fly by and I'll be "holding heaven in my arms in 2,640 hours" . . . maybe. (That is for my roomies who love updates as much as I do). lol. Happy 2010!