Goodbye, 2012! Hello, 2013

Goodbye, 2012! Can you believe it? Where did the year go? This was a good year for our little family.

- New (Forever) Home
- Daisy joined our family
- Marty's brilliance has been officially acknowledged
- Ellie is doing better than ever, physically and otherwise
- I am currently out of the units and in a position I love
- Geoff is back on his favorite shift
- Marty started Cub Scouts
- Ellie and I have "Girls' Night," which we love, while Geoff and Marty have Scouts
- A million other things I'm sure I'm forgetting at this moment

In our extended family, we might not have fared so well.

- We lost a great-grand-aunt and a great-grandmother, the first losses of that generation
- We gained three new baby girls
- A grand-aunt lost a body part to cancer, but
- She beat cancer!
- A beloved cousin is now battling a different cancer
- Another cousin is now engaged
- A different cousin announced his impending fatherhood
- A very beloved cousin married his very beloved beloved, and they bought their first home
- And a million other things I'm sure I'm forgetting at this moment

The world did not end in a Mayan Apocalypse on December 21, and we somehow dodged the Zombie Virus Outbreak, too. I guess I'll work on that retirement fund, now, and tuck away college money for Marty.

So the old year dies, and a new year birthed. Here's to hoping it's a good one!

This is the way the world ends

T.S. Elliot wrote in his poem "The Hollow Men":

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

Today, somewhere in the world, the person who would have cured cancer, ended AIDS, and innoculated us against the zombie virus was cruelly murdered. Maybe s/he was a college student raped and murdered in Central Park. Maybe s/he was a child whose mother's drunken boyfriend threw into a wall too hard this time. Maybe s/he was aborted. We will never know, because that person is gone. That one piece that could have saved everything was destroyed, and unwittingly we see the news (or not) and sigh, "another one, poor thing." That will be that. We'll go on with our diseases and wars because we slayed our modern savior - and we won't even know it.

The Chosen One Will Save Us!

Marty is the key to saving the world! I had a dream this summer of standing with him on the ball court of Chichen Itza, watching fireworks over the Temple of Kukulkan. The fireworks were a celebration because the world was saved, the prophecy (I don't know what prophecy) was fulfilled, the Chosen One (Marty) had come and thus averted disaster. My destiny is clear, I must take the Chosen One to Yucatan to save the world! You will know we are successful if the world is still here on 12/22/12.

Ellie Sang!

Ellie was singing tonight! It's been years and years since she spontaneously sang! She didn't sing the whole song, but she kept repeating, "Life is but a dream." She also sat on the couch to eat her pizza and watched most of Cats VS Dogs (tonight's Family Movie Night viewing). Great Ellie night!

My Baby Geek, Or Is That Greek?

I am so very proud at this moment: my baby geek is watching Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, season 1 episode 1 - because he wants to! Oh, what memories...