Happy New Year

I love New Years. I always look at January as a mental clean slate. A time to decide my goals for the year, and how I am going to get there. Do I want to get promoted in my existing company? Move to a new company? Improve my riding skills? Raise more money for the LAF? Anything is possible when you look at the entire year from Jan 1st.

The same is true for my family. This will be a huge year of change for Gavin, Isabelle and Donna as this September, Gavin will start Kindergarten and Isabelle will start pre-school. Donna will have both kids in school for the first time in our lives. Huge changes! Will Gavin ride without training wheels this summer? Will Izzy swim with just a bubble? We have already started talking about what the family trip will be this year? Where do we want to go camping? How many times? And it all seems so close, now that it is Jan 1st.

It's a fresh start. Fresh goals. Fresh motivators. All compliments of New Years.

I woke up yesterday to a perfect winter morning. Fresh snow. Sun slow to part the clouds, and no noise other than the geese. I took the camera and went outside to breathe it in, and recharge myself for the new year. Fresh snow has the same effect as the New Year. It covers everything old, and makes it look white and new. Full of possibility. I am hard pressed to find anything more tranquil.

Anyway, here's wishing all of you a year filled with endless possibilities. My hope for each of you is that your goals are set lofty, and that your year is spent achieving them. We can all then spend December when we come together again telling the stories of how much we have achieved.