Clearly Overdue

It's my first post of the new decade, what shall I write about?

Maybe about how my several-month-dry-spell from reading finally ended with a foot-high stack of books loaned by my dear friend Shelah, which I devoured like a ravenous beast. It's good to be back.

Or how Doc has been criss-crossing the country, logging the miles and hours interviewing for his Transitional Year and Residency. He's been in so many cities that I can hardly keep them straight. This week I sweetly offered to reserve his rental car for the next day, and when he landed in Spokane, he discovered that I had reserved him a car...in Portland. Nice job Blue. You're fired!

Perhaps I should mention how many posts on the Dare to Dream blog have resonated really deeply with me. I love when I read something that gives me a major insight, or which results in a paradigm shift. Whitney's thoughts and ideas do that consistently. I'm treating that site like a college-credit class, and mining through the archives till I've read it all. It's like free therapy for my soul.

I could regale you with tales of illness, poor air quality, January Blah's (or is it dysthymia?) and dark dark mornings where the sun doesn't rise till the kids are off to school already. But I've decided, as you can see from my banner above, that in 2010, my motto is "Come What May And Love It"...so nope...not gonna go there.

You might be curious about how work is going. Actually, it seems like lately the trips have been getting less and less "productive", which means fewer hours of work per day, so it takes me more days to get my minimum hours in. Which would all be much more stressful in terms of covering childcare needs if it weren't for my angel friends and family. By their grace, things end up working out month after month, and I am truly grateful.

Some might be interested in the matter of new year's resolutions. Do I have them? What are they? How's it going? And I would respond Yes. NOYB. So far, so good. But I'm not going to.

My Kids! After all, this is kind of a mommy blog. Some of you might be clamoring for a Bunch&Gator update. I could write about them. But I'm not right now.

Travel updates? I planning any fabbo trips or get-aways? Unfortunately not at the moment, but I am anticipating a visit from my sister and her family next month. It's been a year since I last saw her, and I'm overdue.

Mostly I've been kind of "in my head" lately...trying to get a handle on the liminal state of things in my life. Now that I've taken the plunge, I'll try to be more regular on here. I've got some stories to tell and this is, as it turns out, my story place.

D0 I get bonus points for use of the word "liminal"?

Grateful for:
1) Furnace that keeps us warm
2) House that provides us with shelter
3) The relationships that make my life so rich