It is the end of of 2009 - wow!
This is my last year to be in my 20's. It's the year I got engaged. It's the year Adam and I decided to move in together, and did.
It's the year that Micheal Jackson died, Brittney Murphy died, and the Canadian government died....twice.
It's the year that I grew up.
It's also the end of the decade.
10 years ago I graduated from high school. 10 years ago I hadn't lived in Wolfiville, Saint john, Fredericton, Calgary, Edmonton or Halifax. I didn't know my younger brothers, hadn't lost my grandfather, hadn't lost friends to Afghanistan, and hadn't been out drinking in a bar.
This decade has been full of so many things. So many that it's a little tearful to say goodbye to it. This was the decade that I became an adult in. This is the decade that I realized my identity in. This is the decade that gave me the life experiences that helped me to decide what kind of person I'm not. This is the decade I met, and agreed to marry, my soon-to-be husband.
2000 - 2009 will be they years I was grown up but had no children. When my children look back on it, it will be ancient to them - yet they will be there for the majority of my life. They will look at it they way I regard the late 60s and early 70s. It will be the time before I was married to Adam. It will be the end of the years as an unmarried woman.
Good-bye 2009. Thanks for everything - I had a wonderful time.
