a time for everything

A time for beards, and a time for shaving them (for Joel, that is; he came home with one as per request); a time for saying hello, and a time for saying goodbye; a time for quiet, and a time for visiting; a time to be home, and a time to start packing ...

Joel and I were able to spend almost all of the Christmas holidays together - minus the last minute shopping, and dentist appointments, and those exams and studying for them. I wrote my last exams at Redeemer until December 2011. School would be starting on Wednesday, but I will be cleaning up the chaos that is reigning in my room so as to stop living out of a suitcase :)

Handel's Messiah at Roy Thomson Hall, exciting announcements by friends (an engagement and a pregnancy), catching up with good friends, spending quality time with family and each other - yes, it's been a wonderful holiday.

It's been an incredible year with the next one already laid out with some of its plans and fears and anticipations.