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Thursday, December 31st, 2009 | iRate Chick blogs | No Comments

2009 has come and gone. Last year at this time I was unemployed, worrying about the future and having babies. On this last day of 2009, I sit here contemplating what 2010 holds for us. I’m done making grandiose plans for the new year and will just celebrate the end of the decade.

Thinking back during the last 10 years, life has been great. My family is well, finally married my love of two decades, and have a home I love (except it needs a good cleaning), and my niece Sabrina came into this world in 2006 and made our lives so much richer with her presence. At least if I don’t have kids, she is my adoptive child.

So instead of bitching and complaining about what I don’t have, I will celebrate what I do have. I came to this realization with the news that Sabrina’s paternal grandmother is on her death bed and she might not see it through the new year. She is only in her early 60’s and has been suffering with cancer the last few years but she is a strong woman. Hearing the news put a damper on celebrating the end of 2009, but it also made me realize you have to live every day like it’s your last because it might end soon. I feel even worse for her son, Sabrina’s father who cherishes his mother. It’s a sad, sad day for their families and my niece who will not get to see her grandmother anymore. Hopefully, she won’t forget her since she is young.

But I shouldn’t talk about her in the past as she is still fighting to stay here on Earth and fought to stay another day as I write this. My thoughts and prayers are with her and my only wish for the new year is that she makes it through.

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