My Year in Pictures

Here is just a smattering of what I accomplished and learned and did this year. Enjoy!

I finished writing a novel.

I made some art on my classroom wall.

 I turned 36 and spent the day with my best friends!

I found out that even in times of sadness,

there is still room for laughs and silliness.

I discovered that friendship is truly one

of life's greatest blessings.

I learned that sometimes there is

nothing greater than blowing bubbles with a toddler.

(I also see that I had about five hair styles and just as many facial hair configurations.)

I ate just a little bit of sushi with my brother and sis-in-law.

I did some sidewalk art with my niece.

I got to watch this amazing sunset with my best friend.

I took a glass fusion class with my best friend.

I did some camping with an amazing lady who ate my breakfast

quiches even though I badly burned them.

I got gussied up and saw Les Misérables.

2013 was a year of great trials and great triumphs. It was a year of change and growth. It was a year of belly laughs and body-wracking tears. But through it all, through all the ups and downs of life's roller coaster, it was a year of blessings, and it all culminated in this, my jump on Christmas day into a frozen Lake Michigan...

This picture, for me, sums up my entire year and my entrance into the new one. Here's to an even better 2014!!