Christmas time or looking back at life.

Christmas was this past week. Where did this year go? I feel like it just started and it is over, strange how that happens isn't it? Ya blink and your kid is grown up into a young man or woman, you blink and your dog is old, you blink and your husband has gray hair on his head if he has hair at all. I get to thinking of the song from Fiddler on the Roof where he is singing When did he get to be so tall, I don't remember growing older when did they? Sunrise, sunset, sunrise, sunset swiftly fly the years. One season following another laden with happiness and tears.

One of the nicest things that happened to me this year is that I am now in contact with the brother of my childhood best friend. Dar was killed by a drunk driver just shy of her 32nd birthday and just after my 32nd birthday. Her dear sainted mother was killed in the same accident. Since I haven't been to Montana (home) in many years I had lost contact with her family and it is great to at last be in touch with someone from her family again. Her brother was a huge crush of mine when I was quite young. We were several years younger so he never had eyes for me but I sure pined over him. LOL He is happily married now as am I but thinking back I giggle about it now.

My 40 year class reunion will be this next summer. I am trying to get more fit before I decide for sure if I am going or not so we joined a health club this week. I walked for four minutes on the treadmill which was a miracle in itself as a year ago I could not walk more than about 30 feet without extreme pain from my low back. Found a wonderful pain managment team in Boise that has given me injections along my spine that has helped a tremendous amount with that pain and so now I can at least move again. YAY

Friends, new friends and old are a part of life and living and it is wonderful to get back in touch with ones left behind in a rush of life and living. Life is good.