Put your arms in the air and shake your derriere!.....Welcome, 2011.

This past week has been a rollercoaster of activity at my job and I have missed blogging saying good-bye to 2010 and thanking you all who have become such an intimate part of my life.  When I began my blog a year ago I had no inkling that my life would change forever and that I would cry and laugh and pray and experience such goodness and sharing as I have.  I am so grateful for the joy and the human-ness and the sharing of life's sadness and silliness that you gift to me and letting me in to your life and you coming into mine.  When I think of the Godwinks....I am overwhelmed and get a tear in my heart.  How often I will see something at the quiltshop, grocery story, bill boards, toy store or a thought pops in.....of you!  We have travelled to Disneyland together, chased mustangs, cried over loved ones dying, cheered me on as I sat for hours this week in the middle of wilderness bogged down in mud and shared dreams both fulfilled and in the making.....

So with this past year CELEBRATED and will be alluded to in future, I greet this New Year, 2011, with a photo of the Liberated Roller Coaster.....Sums up life for me, the peals of delight, screams of fear and the butteflies in the belly while a friend or loved one sits next to me or waits on the ground to take my hand and ask if I am ok.

With humble gratitude I say "Thank you!"  now let's.....DANCE with our needles and quilt up some fun and beauty!!!!!!

Love, Em