Happy New Year

The new year is kind of emotional for me. I really do not feel like celebrating anything in a group atmosphere...we are going to hang at home and watch movies with the kids. We bought some fake champagne! Holden is very excited about that!! I am sure I will have to put together the "movie theatre" which is just a bunch of blankets and pillows on the floor:) To them, it is a big deal.

I have been thinking back over the past year and wow...we have had some pretty big situations to deal with. We started 2008 with a house fire at one of our rental properties (the incident occurred on the 24th of December). The house was basically destroyed...we salvaged the walls and ceilings in the top floor. The basement and main floor were totally gutted and we started over. That was a very stressful time for us, to say the least. However, 9 months later it was beautiful~we are very proud of what it is now. That was a bad situation, that we worked through and the outcome was something to be proud of. The other major event in our lives was conceiving Beckett, but loosing him at 37 weeks. That was pretty traumatic...to say the least. But you know what? We are still here (we are a little damaged), we are still good parents to Holden and Grace, Cory and I have a deeper understanding of each other, and we are going to survive this and be better people because of Beckett. Loosing Beck will be one of the hardest things we get through...but we are getting through it. Gosh, I think if we can get through that...we will be so much stronger and better people and parents to our children.

We hope 2009 will bring happiness, acceptance, and peace to our family and for all families that have had to say goodbye to their precious children. I am sure all of that will take a while, but that is what I hope for. Who knows, maybe we will be blessed with another child to love. I always wanted at least 4 children. I guess we will see what 2009 brings!

Happy New Year to everyone!