Happy New Year.
Happy New Decade.
Happy 2010.
There are a few more hours of 2009 in my place in the world, and I am anxious to ring in the New Year. The kids are in bed, and I just peeked outside at the full moon. The second this month.
How perfect. How rare. A blue moon on New Year’s Eve.
To me this means second chances. Renewal. It means there are good things in store in the coming year. Things that rarely have happened before in my life. Better things. Even mystical things.
Tonight, I am crossing the threshold of midnight with hope in my heart. And I’m not looking back.
We will move forward, this family of mine. Individually and holding hands all the way. We are in this together. Glowing. Glorious. And yet not at all like a blue moon, because we are a family every day and every night. No matter where we are in the cycle of our days.
I am happy for this new year. I am happy for this moon. I am happy for what has to come my way. 2009 was difficult. It tested me. My strength. My patience. Relationships. It tested my resolve. My ingenuity. My creativity. All in ways I’d rather not be tested.
In 2010 I hope to take the lead. I hope to test myself in ways I want to be tested. I hope to thrive. I hope we all do.
Happy New Year,
Blue Moon
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Happy New Year! I’m enjoying (and writing about) this blue moon, myself. Cheers to synchronicity and to ringing in twentyten!
-elizabeth
Twitter: claritychaos
Excellent post, Jen. I can relate. 2009 was tough for me, too. I, also, look forward to 2010 with new hope in my heart. Love to you and yours. I will raise a glass tonight in honor of you and Sarah. I am glad I found you guys. Happy New Years.
It seems like every year that goes by, so many new trials occur, and they make us stronger, better, give us wrinkles.
I’ve so enjoyed reading you guys this past year! (or few months… but still.. in 2009…)
Happy New Year :)
Twitter: crnnoel
2009. A year of wonderful ups and downs. A year of many new beginnings. A year of successes and failures. I am grateful I survived it–and grateful it is over with.
Happy New Year!
Twitter: ambrosiat
Funny–I mentioned that it was a blue moon and nobody else in my house knew what that was! So then I hauled their butts out in 9 degree weather to behold that sucker–we won’t have another one until 2023 or something, so behold! And, of course, nobody was as jazzed about it as I was…but so what.
Although I could do without the song in my head: Blue moon/you saw me standing alone/without a dream in my heart/without a love of my own…
Especially when it’s almost 3 in the morning and hubs is snoring like a rhino…
Happy New Year to my favorite chicks!
Reading this makes me feel peaceful.
Thank you, Sister.
Twitter: Momalom
Beautiful post Jen. I am so looking forward to 2010 and the entire new decade. Although I know the first decade probably held the best days of my life (my wedding, and the birth of both kids) it also was a very trying decade and year. I welcome the new year with open arms and an open heart. Cheers to you and I so look forward to continuing to spend time here with you!
Twitter: dramaformama
“Tonight, I am crossing the threshold of midnight with hope in my heart. And I’m not looking back.”
I got the goose pimples reading that.
A blue moon! Surely that’s a mystical and wonderful sign… how delightful.
May 2010 bring you and your family much joy – and some time off just to be.
Twitter: BigLittleWolf
Thank you, Jen, for such wonderful words.
Happy New Year to you and yours and Sarah and hers!!!
Twitter: NickiinNY
I watched the “clock” turn to 12:00 on my cell phone and then looked up at that moon that had been mezmerizing me all night. I knew it was full, and full of portent… I did not know it was “blue,” but it makes great sense that it was.
Here’s wishing good challenges and community for all of us ahead. Namaste.
Twitter: http://privilegeofparenting.wordpress.com/2010/05/16/grapes-of-a-mom’s-wrath/
I have been consumed by this moon, honestly. I’ve mentioned it in conversation and stared at it both before and after work*.
You’re right, it is mystical!
*I work super early in the a.m. and usually get off when it’s dark, being winter and all…
Happy New Year!
I tend to make some resolutions, but never really stick to them. I feel like, somehow, the Blue Moon, the end of the decade, etc. means I need to stick to them this year. Now, I just have to make them!