Welcome, 2016!

It's leap year, folks! Another beginning, following an ending, in the continuous cycle we call life. This year starts out HUGE for me, with a new house coming the end of this month, a new job I've been in for a month now, but am still just at the beginning of understanding all it truly entails. My mind is stretching...my budget is stretching...my horizons are expanding, my life is being enriched, and I'm literally walking on air! I'm not sure my feet have touched the ground in almost a month now. While it's time consuming, sometimes a bit aggravating, seems like it'll never get here, and at the same time, like it's breathing down my neck!...I'm just extraordinarily grateful. Content. Excited. I've got a list of adverbs! I have cats jumping on boxes, wondering why our normally semi-organized apartment is now apparently a makeshift packing house! I've already gone through my clothing and donated a lot of it. I'll be doing that again, at least once, before I leave here for good.

In truth...I'm stunned when I stand still and think for even a moment on what's transpired over the last almost four years. At the beginning of 2015, I could not have imagined I'd be standing at this threshold in just a year. So much work to do. So much planning, organizing. So many decisions. Gracious concessions throughout the home sale transaction I'd have never dreamed sellers would give. And always...this feeling of understanding what a lucky woman I am. How grateful I am. And how excited I am to look towards the future. Towards sharing this new journey with those who take the time to look at this little blog. Thank you for peeking in on a regular basis. For sharing my trials, my joys, my frustrations...bring on 2016 and beyond!