A New Year and New Adventures

Happy New Year!!! This is my favorite holiday! I love the fireworks, and the worldwide celebration! My favorite thing is First Night in Salt Lake City with 60,000 people excitedly bustling around in the cold, the noise, and the many activities and performances to be taken in in so many locations around the heart of downtown, and of course the fireworks.

Since we are in Virginia, we couldn't go to that, obviously, but it's fun to remember. I still love New Year's. At the end of a year I either feel a sense of accomplishment, a relief that it's over, or a combination of the two. And, I feel that I have a clean slate, chance to start fresh and set out on new adventures. Being a military family, with many moves and deployments, every year for us is usually very different from the one before. This past year brought some tough personal challenges, but those challenges presented incredible and unique opportunities for me to grow in some amazing and deeply rewarding ways that are changing the course of my life as I knew it. Yeah, it's that cool. But, sorry, it's personal stuff, so I wont say more than that.

This year will bring a new set of opportunities to grow as we "go Active Duty". We do not know yet where we will be sent, but it will be a whole new world in Active Duty. Really. It has a culture and a language all its own. I have new goals for this year and I can't wait to see how this year unfolds!