deja vu

2009

was ushered onto the Coast of NC, with blasts of cold winds!

The final days of December held temperatures of upper 60-70 degrees,

and now,

...it feels like Christmas!

The first day of the New Year brings thoughts of reflection for me. Christmas was good this year. The kids were excited about what "Santa" brought and other gifts, and I have enjoyed them being home, ....most of the time! {smiles! }

I love Christmas, but it contains a mixture of emotions for me. Some sadness entails. Many prominent memories I have of loved ones that have passed, are connected with Christmas. Bittersweet, like a cloud hovering over a good thing. When January 1st comes, that cloud is lifted, as the turning of the calendar page reveals a new year.

A new year full of new promise....

And like many other people, I have with much hope and vigor, pondered my New Year Resolutions for 2009. With a sense of deja vu, I realize my resolutions are the same as last year, and the year before, and maybe even 5 years ago. But this year, I commit to do better about keeping them. This year I have resigned to have a new outlook on resolutions, to NOT make any particular ones, (except to lose weight), but to broaden my horizons! I am a creature of habit, to fault! This year, with much excitement, I pledge to have an open mind and try new things! Live a little, for goodness sake! Nothing crazy, mind you. ...just expand my comfort zone! ...which is unfortunately a teeny-tiny box! {smiles!}

So what are your New Year's Resolutions, and have they changed or remained the same over the years? Here's hoping we all have much success, much more than dear Maxine.....


Below is a wonderful, exciting verse of promise and new beginnings, I'd like to share. "Out with the old and in with the new," when it is certainly a good thing! {smiles} ~Rhonda

2 Corinthians 5:17 (NKJV)- "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new."