Happy Winter Solstice!

I just want to wish everyone a very Happy Winter Solstice from my wee family to yours!

This evening we'll be having some good old fashioned family time, and then later we'll light our candles (since the firepit is WAY too full of snow to burn a Yule Log) with our wishes for the upcoming year.

This year has been more than I could have quite imagined or wished for, and I'm grateful. It almost seems silly to make a wish this year, because goodness knows what 2009 is going to bring me!

Hopefully not more kids, (just yet anyway)!... we get to see Kat grow and discover everything this year (which I can't wait for), Tim's sister Katie is getting married in May and I get to be the minister (very fabulous), and another whole year with Tim! We'll be celebrating our 1 year wedding anniversary in June, and our 2 year anniversary of being 'The Tim and Tara Show' in February.... Time flies... I feel like it was just yesterday I was mustering up the guts to fly to Michigan to meet him.... now our daughter is napping on the couch with her little butt up in the air. *grin*

I guess what I'm saying is that wishes at Solstice are all very well and good (by the way, mine came true last year- I wished for peace and happiness for my little family) but the truth of the matter is that the year is going to bring you what it brings you no matter what, and it'll likely be beyond your hopes or expectations.. or even your wildest imaginings. I always imagine I hear a very tiny giggle in the back of my mind every time I make plans, I reckon that's just the Universe finding us all very entertaining....

Even though, I have my wish all ready for tonight... and I can't tell anyone what it is until I know it's come true... Even if you don't celebrate the Winter Solstice or make any wishes at all, I'm hoping that your year to come is full of blessings you didn't even know you needed and is beyond all your expectations... I hope next holiday season you can look back at your year and have more good memories than you can count... and if you hear that small giggle when you make your plans, just smile- what is meant to happen surely will.