Farewell 2007

I think I’ve lost my entire blog audience of about three by not posting for about two months. But I am feeling introspective again as the year comes to a close so I figured I would check in.

Rich and I got to spend about 11 hours in the car in the past five days traveling to Pennsylvania and to and from New Jersey, so we had lots of time to chat and check in and recap and overanalyze and digest the year and look forward to the next and decide what made us happy and what we would change and talk future babies and vacations and work and marriage and all that fun stuff.

All in all 2007 treated us very well. To recap:

We went to an amazing spa in Mexico in the winter.

We traveled to Jeremy W’s wedding in England in the spring.

Hazel from Ireland came to Vermont to visit in the fall and we spent a few days alone up at the house to celebrate our anniversary and treasure the fall colors.

Inbetween weddings and traveling and a couple of working nightmare weekends, we had great weekends up in Vermont with friends and family in the summer: Eric and Heather and Hilly and Conway and the Aichroths and the Nortons and the Wallers and Jer and Pee Wee and Marian Rob and Felicia and Poppa Kapp and Michele and Soupy and Kim and Sean and the Pagliarolis (not to mention Peggy and Peter spending the week there while we were in the ‘Cha)…

Rich became a normal-hour working Engineer at the plant and finally feels challenged and respected and likes the people he works with and, for the most part, the work he does.

Rich and I spent lots of fun time together. We played lots of tennis, learned bridge and joined a league and became members of the Rochester Broadway Theater League with friends.

I became active in Hadassah and met lots of amazing women whom I now call my friends. He started running and ran a half marathon with me as his biggest cheerleader.

We dined, we movied, we spent quality time alone and with friends, we laughed, we cried (Okay.. make that I cried. My manly man does not shed a tear EVER), we enjoyed eachother and learned from eachother and continued to learn about eachother. We enjoyed every moment with our adorable pups.

I could go on for hours, but I won’t. You get the picture. I am blessed as anything to have an amazing husband, a great job, a house in the country, a family we see often, friends far and near, and a list of memories that grows with the passage of time.

Of course, the year was not without its share of frustration. I spent way too much time with throat ailments and stomach issues. My mom’s been gone five years as of February and I spent a lot of time thinking about what she and my dad would have thought about my life now and I still cry when I think about them. And although I am sooo thrilled that my brother is having a baby, I am saddened when I think that it was my mom’s dream to be a grandmother and she will not be around to see the birth of Jer’s baby. When we were all up in Vermont for Thanksgiving, we talked baby for much of the weekend and being that it was a family holiday, I think I had parents on the brain and Jer and I ended up at eachother’s throats the whole weekend (ie in the form of fights about things such as acceptable Scrabble words)…

But all in all, it was a good year and we can only hope that 2008 brings more of the same. Right now we are in the midst of planning a dive trip to Curacao. I can not wait to escape the Cha this winter! And for those who incessantly ask, we will be revisiting the “are we ready to add to the family” conversation in a few months. We will have some people over to say farewell to 2007...

Above are pics from a Hadassah Hanukkah brunch, Tgiving in VT, Christmas at the PKapps… and my visit with Hilly, Conster, brunch with the Safians and a visit with the Pag family.

Wishing everyone a happy and healthy 2008 filled with lots of laughter and love.