Saying Goodbye to 2024

 With some sadness and some hesitancy, but life needs to move forward and that means change, whatever that change might be to any one specific family.  Sometimes the "what we know" days are the safest as they present no challenge and do not put us out of our comfort zone and make us learn and walk new paths.  Without change there is no movement going forward and we all need to go forward and our lives not be stagnant. Here is hoping that those changes will benefit us all in someway or another.

It has been a hard and busy year, but we got by, we got through. Not a bad year, a year with hiccups, but not a bad year. No doubt 2025 will continue in that vein.  I will continue on with working on the house, reclaiming areas of the house and sorting things out.  This coming New Year is the year in which I officially retire in May and claim my "Dress Allowance".  This was the phrase given by our neighbour Joyce when it came time to claim her pension.  She was a little embarrassed about it and so it became known as the "Dress Allowance".  This phrase has stuck in our family ever since.

I have had a pleasant day today for the last day of the year meeting up with a good friend who I have not seen for sometime (I am good at disappearing acts) and as always we end up  "putting the world to rights".  It was good to see her and catch up.

We will see how things pan out at the end of the day.  I have outline plans that will be running through the year to come as some of the projects need time and I am fast running out of that.  Time is a very precious commodity.  However, more on that in posts to come.

I am not sure whether I will be awake come midnight as I had a rough night last night with Missy not settling and then I was violently ill myself, which eventually settled down (I am okay it is something that happens from time to time).  Left me not sleeping very much and as a result I am now feeling extremely sleepy and do not know whether I will last until midnight to wish the New Year in.

Therefore as I suspect I will be nodding, I just wanted to say Goodbye to 2024 and Hello to 2025 and wish you all happiness, blessings, wealth, and love for this coming New Year.  As one door closes, another opens.

Whatever you are doing have a good one.

Catch you on the other side.

Pattypan

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