New Year's Eve seems like the perfect time to take a long look back. Having celebrated the impending new year with a friend at lunch (we're such party animals) I have had time to think back this evening and I have the visual aids to help. My daughter and her husband were married in 2008 and beginning that Christmas, he has gifted me with a calendar every year; a wonderful personalized calendar filled with pictures of children, grandchildren, other relatives, pets and more. It was fun to page back through and see how the grands have grown from cute little four, six, seven and eight year olds through grade school pageants, middle school band and baton, high school marching bands, graduation pictures, and so much more. I love the progression of Halloween costumes and Christmas morning pictures. Not quite so much fun to see how the adults have aged during the same 13 years but still interesting. Changing careers reflected in many pictures. But I noticed that my most recent calendar (2022) contained many grand-dog pictures, a reflection I think of the fact that my daughter and son-in-law are now empty nesters. It's bitter sweet that children will grow up and move on, and their parents can't follow them to college campuses and job sites to take pictures. So I wasn't too surprised that this year, instead of a calendar of pictures, I received framed pictures of their son and daughter, each with their significant other. Grandchildren grow, new relationships blossom, and, who knows, no rush here, but maybe one of these years I'll get a Christmas calendar full of great grandbaby pictures. Happy New Year everyone. Enjoy the anticipation of new things to come.
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