For me, the year 2006 will always be the year we started homeschooling. I had thought and wondered about it since I was a teenager, and -- plop -- one day it just became very obviously the right thing to do. Not the last resort-desperation thing (though I'm sure it seems that way to many) but the best thing for us. It continues to change all of us and how we think about how we choose to spend our time.

Tomorrow, 1/1/07, will be the 1 year anniversary of bringing home our puppy, which certainly changed our household!

And I too feel that I really started to get some solid adult friendships, ones that would outlast my membership in a particular club or participation in a particular activity.

I worked my a** off on a big project as part of the lay leadership of our church, and by God (literally) we pulled it off! Though my depression forced me to resign my position (but let's not dwell on that ongoing misery), I am (almost) weekly reminded of a wonderful experience of leading a team while being led by the Spirit, and creating a vision for our parish for the next several years.

Guess I'll go check on our New Year's Dinner, a gift from SIL and her family from Omaha Steaks (fish, not steak). Yum!
Shaun
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