Goodbye 2009!!

This has been one hell of a year. Everything that could go wrong almost did and us Brown Folks were left  in a vortex of confusion, senselessness and damn near poverty. One day you're moving along and everything is honky dory then Kaboom! It all blows up.  In this year alone close friends passed away (Jeri,Ted & Michael), Alexander took an extended break from college (although he was so close to finishing), Bob lost his job and MS has made my days difficult. My money was funny and change strange. I fought with everything I had to keep us normal and sane. Some days I did okay other I fail, miserably. So after struggling to just keep going I stopped. I just stop trying to correct all the problems and decided to allow things to be. All I can think of is the old black saying of…"it’s all good". Even as things were falling apart and I was about to lose all that I worked for all my life I felt the promise of 2010 coming. So now I am looking forward to Twenty-Ten. My soul tells me everything will turn all right. We did all the preliminaries to get ready for Twenty Ten  like cleaned the house, put our grapes & champagne (actually sparkling apple cider) in the fridge, showered and took out our good red underwear and are on our way to celebrate a rough year ending and new one coming our way. Already it holds promise: Bob has choices of which company to work for (he has an excellent resume), and already doing several interviews that are promising (So we might in up in the Mid-West) Alexander must be tired of our constant pissed off pleading lectures because he is now full steam with the attitude of going back to school and getting a paying job. Adam is in his place calling on a regular basis. I am determine to find a way to live with this crazy disease and still do the things I love to do. I do have to say that this year has humbled me and my family greatly and maybe that was the point. I just wish it didn’t take so long. So as we count out our 12 grapes and wait for the clock to click down and the fireworks to shoot out of the Space Needle, I have to say Thanks for leaving 2009 and shout hooray its over!