Last night I kept turning to Ana and saying, “Can you believe that tomorrow is New Year’s Eve?” And here we are, waking up on New Year’s Eve and about to welcome in the new year. It will probably not be a longer stay up time for us. Maybe we will ring in the New Year at 9pm as we have done while having a little one these past two years. He doesn’t understand that today is special and won’t know to sleep in longer tomorrow. Plus he is a kiddo of routine these days so we like to stay in the land of variation of routine around bedtime.

But we will open some bubbles and give each other a kiss and talk about the year to come.

It has been a big year. We thought we were done with transitions for a while and then this opportunity came our way. I was really shocked to be offered this dream job in this dream location and we couldn’t pass it up. We feel more at home at Menucha then we did in Portland and I feel more at home here than I ever did in Berlin. I feel like I was created to do this job right now and what an amazing feeling to go into the new year with.

Our kiddo is growing fast and fully. He is chatty in three languages, obsessed with modes of transportation, his teddy bear that he named Peach, animals, and music. He would rather never wear clothes and loves to run and run and run. He is hilarious and challenging and makes our life even more full than we could imagine while simultaneously constantly offering challenge in how we maintain ourselves as a full self. All right on schedule.

Our pups are aging and both turning 10 this year. But they are still acting like puppies and loving living out here. I am so glad we get to give them the gift of living in this place in their last years.

And what will the new year bring? I can only predict more growth, joy and challenge, and visioning for this place we live. I have high hopes for my own development as well as what is happening around me and I also know I can only take it one step at a time. I often dream big and have to take things down a notch to reality but I love the dreaming bit too.

What have thought about for the new year?