The New Year

The old year 2008 went out with record cold and snow and now the new year 2009 has greeted us with record rain and flooding. What happened to normal? Is this global warming, el nino, la nina or just an abnormal weather pattern? That is for greater minds than mine to determine.

At least part of our lives is back to normal. Mark returned to college on Sunday. Drew and his family returned to their home on the other side of the state a few days before that, so our homelife is back to its usual routine. As I get older, I find I like our usual mundane routine. We love having the 'kids' visit and miss them when they leave, but there is something comforting in our usual, uneventful, daily routine. So, now it if off to Starbuck's.......