Ringing in the New Decade

A night of cards, conversation and good cheer to ring in the new decade with our Louisville friends. Ten years ago the boys and I rung in the last decade in Pender with mom and dad after the flu ripped through the family. It’s hard to believe that 10 years ago, D-man was in Kindergarten and T-man was in Preschool. 

In the last decade: 

• We moved to Louisville and made some amazing friends 
• Marshall started a new job 
• Marshall made four trips to Thailand for work 
• I started a new job, left that job and went back to it 
• I started a brand new job at the end of the decade
• I had over 16 months off of work (all but four months paid) 
• The boys started school at Monarch
• Marshall started playing weekly trivia 
• I joined the Coal Creek Women’s golf league  and a book club 
• The boys participated in a variety of activities- sports, musical, band 
• I had a stroke 
• We took amazing family trips - Bahamas, an Alaskan cruise, Dominican Republic, Mt. Rushmore, Teton and Yellowstone, Banff, Seattle multiple times, San Diego multiple times, Sonoma, Michigan motor home trip, several ski trips, Minnesota several times, two trips to Europe, our 4th of July Nebraska tradition and our Idaho cabin adventures
• Marshall and I took some great couple trips - Hawaii, sailing in the BVIs, Thailand, San Francisco and Las Vegas 
• We’ve had skier’s thumb, a broken arm, two concussions, two taped cuts and one untaped gash
• The boys gained four cousins 
• We lost Marshall’s Dad 

While there have been some lows, we are fortunate to have had many more highs. Here’s to new adventures in the next decade. I can’t imagine taking this life journey with anyone else. 

Ringing in the new year together 

New Year’s euchre 

The group