My Rambling New Year Post

I sure do hope that all of you had a wonderful holiday season! I and my little family did:)

We spent the time quietly...I wasn't able to get the week of Christmas off so I took the week before off:) That worked out quite nicely, actually:) I am thinking that may become a tradition...

I spent a lot of time enjoying my own personal Pandora station, which I have named, Christmas Cannon...and with my fireplace video on the screen...Lovely...

Now, 

I have one of those husbands who wants very little spent on him...a just get me a GC to Walmart kind of guy...So when our daughter suggested that we split the difference and spurge on an ipad mini for him, I was all like well how in the world am I going to get the money out of him for THAT!?!

Well we did it! And we had to order it because we could not find it anywhere...and Fedex rocks!! It got here on Christmas Eve!

He lovedit!! And the rest of us were just as spoiled...

But the season had it's downs also...

I have a personal hero named 

Bridget

She is a hero to many, actually...

A picture of Bridget on one of the very few days without Chemotherapy over the last 7 years...her wedding day...

The photographer writes"This is a first for me... knowing a beautiful bride I photographed on one of the best days of her life has written her own goodbye post."

I have mentioned Bridget around here before...She is a young women that has been courageously fighting stage four Breast Cancer since being diagnosed at the age of 21. Yes, 21.

She is now 27...She has written her last blog post...and she has asked that we let her go...and give her the time she needs to say good bye to her "Big Man" her husband...

and to "Please don't forget Me"

As if!!!

There is a movement, or project if you will...we know that Bridget loves her pearls...and so they are being collected in her honor...individual pearls are being sent and will be strung in her memory and given to her husband so that he will know that each of us will indeed remember her, or angel...Hopefully before she leaves us...Paradise Pearls is going to string them and also make a donation in her name to Komen! If you are interested...A Pearl to Bridget is the name of the project...it is a Facebook event.

Bridget, we love you!

We are all praying that Bridget finds the peace and understanding that she needs to become an angel...

Somehow, I think that we all felt that this day would never come...

On to other things...I did say this one would be a rambling post...

I do believe that it is some sort of tradition to make a resolution or two at this time...However, I just sow something on FB that I agree with...It said Don't make New Year Resolutions, Make New Years Plans...Do you have any?

I have a few...

Perhaps I will even exercise this year...Nothing too ambitious!

I will do a post soon about the Reading challenges that I plan to do in 2013! That's always fun:)

For now I just plan a trip to the hair salon so I have to sign off here...enough rambling...

Stay tuned...

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