Happy New Year!

“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.”
~Benjamin Franklin

Happy New Year!

I hope your holidays were awesome. Our winter break was wonderful, with Christmas endearing and New Year’s exciting.

Santa delivered on his promises to both Mia and Max. And even though we spent days hopping house to house, we also managed to spend some much needed time relaxing with Cindy’s brother, who flew in from Houston and kept us company for two weeks.

New Year’s was wonderful. A dozen years back, Cindy and I started the ritual of ringing in New Years alone, making our resolutions over a pair of champagne flutes while dreaming out loud about the 12 months to come. This time we broke an old tradition in favor of a new one. The four of us spent the final day of last year and the first of this one with our good friends, the Martins.

With our children asleep at the back of the house, the four of us grownups watched the ball drop together, dreaming out loud about what promises to be the best year of our lives thus far.

I could feel the shift in my shoulders like cool air on my face.

I know a new date is arbitrary, but I’ve been waiting for the page to flip on this particular calendar for a while. Sure, December falling into January shouldn’t be different from any other month getting swallowed by the next. But it is, at least for me.

My brain seems wired to catalogue things year by year and I see a new one as an opportunity to put one album on the shelf and unwrap a new one, packed with pure white pages.

I will remember 2009 as difficult, brimmed with excitement, transition, and the endless but necessary building of infrastructure. Yet I see 2010 as budded with promise and potential just waiting to bloom. I’ve never looked forward to a new year more and am thrilled it’s finally here.

We returned home Friday afternoon, then spent the final Saturday and Sunday of the winter break doing little but lingering in the few final hours of rest before we’d be called to shake the Etch-a-Sketch and start all over again.

It feels tremendous to be back. I did miss you, but was gone for good reason.

Not only did I wish to publish the Four Seasons manuscript in full for anyone interested in reading it, I also wanted something running smoothly on autopilot while I worked behind the scenes to bring you the best Writer Dad yet.

Mission accomplished.

2009 was practice for many things in my life, Writer Dad included. I’ve never learned more in a single year than I have in this last, and I’m proud to deliver the strongest stream of content this site has so far seen.

Tomorrow I’ll spill the beans on our exciting new direction. Today I just wanted to say hi, let you know I missed you, and wish you a happy New Year before barging into the room and flapping my gums – something I’m constantly trying to teach Mia not to do.

I’ve never been more eager for a new year, and am thrilled to share this coming one with you.

See you tomorrow!

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