2014.......Not just a new year, with new resolutions, new goals and new chances to "get it right". THIS year, I have a new granddaughter! Meet Willow Fae! Born one month ago today, she is our first grand child and we couldn't be more excited! Being a Farm Girl in spirit, I'm always planning ahead and one thing I am doing for the future, for Willow, is journaling. Every day, since the day Willow was born, I have been writing out handwritten letters to her. The idea is that on her first birthday, she will receive the first year journal of her life, and every birthday thereafter. When she celebrates her 18th birthday, she will have 18 journals filled with letters from everyday of her 18 years of life, from her grandmother. Keeping in that "think ahead spirit", I've already purchased enough journals for the first 5 years of her life! I tell her about the weather, visits that her grandpa and I have had with her, how she lifts her head to look at me when I'm holding her and how she and I like to have "talks." I don't want time to pass by too quickly, but I'm already looking forward to all the fun things we will do together.....baking, gardening, crafts, fishing, trips to the park and the zoo and museums and sleep overs. I've even made a secret promise to teach her every 80's song and dance I know....that ought to drive her father crazy! So here is to new beginnings and a wonderful 2014!
