Happy 2014! Hope Is In The Air?

I hope you all had a wonderful New Year’s celebration and are full of new hope for 2014. I am hopeful at the beginning of this year which, is a HUGE step forward compared to New Year’s Day 2013. I do plan on reflecting over last year, but I have not had a moment to sit down and reflect. Our lives have been a whirlwind of change for months. We have all managed rather well thus far … However; I did almost have a complete meltdown yesterday! Good news, I was able to calm down and work through my anxieties. It was a rough a day though; things would go right then, terribly wrong, and then right only to trickle back to wrong. Daniel was on the verge of his own meltdown, but found his happiness in taking a looooooong bath.

We had plans to go over to my aunt’s for the evening to celebrate and spend time with family.

This was the first year that we were able to stay for four and half hours and all of us had a great time. Daniel did remarkable! He had one moment around the end where he almost lost it – it took me a minute to figure it out. I thought he got hurt because he collapsed into David’s lap. I realized that the noise of everyone laughing had hurt him. I quickly scooped him up ran up the stairs to the quiet room where Ariel and Joshua were playing the Wii. He was able to tell me that the noise scared him and hurt his body. I gave him the choice of leaving to go home or stay for a little while longer until we were finished with the “Dirty Santa” game.

Side note: It took me a while to figure out that game I do not normally participate.

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