Last day of the year

2007 has been a weird year in some ways. Dear ones died, my mother-in-law in March, my sweet tomcat Gustav in October. We buried his ashes in our garden this afternoon. My health was getting from bad to better, back to worse. My shoulder, broken in November 2006, had been operated on in July and is healing, but will never be the same. Teeth, hearing and eyesight are those of an elderly woman. Sigh. What happened to the laughing, young girl I felt like 365 days ago? Last week I was called a grandma for the first time in my life. Yeah, well. You live and learn and grow.
Still: I'm back to work with a new job and nice collegues, my kids are the best you can ask for, making me proud of them every day, Emil is purring besides me whenever I'm with him, and family and friends are calling and writing, staying in touch even though I'm far away. That's not too bad, is it? Actually, it's great!
So, 2008: Here I come!