Okay, so I'm a sucker for those "Year in Review" magazines and newspapers. I like to reflect--a lot. I spent the slow moments at work reflecting in my journal on the past year...it's been a doozy. Here a pictures, in random order, that enter into my reflection on life in 2008.

January: Happy Birthday boys

June: Hannah and Sara

December: hanging out with Chantel again

October: Saying good-bye to my mother.

March: Palm Sunday. An emotional day as it was Tia Liliana's last day in church.

October: Celebrating Ivania, my god-daughter's sixth birthday

June: my friend Lisa's wedding...I missed it, but was there in heart.

October: Dear Wolford folks who carried our faimily through grief with food and hospitality.

October: Saying Good-bye to Moz

February: Flat Josiah visits from Virginia, here he's in Zove on their first day of school.

October: my family

March: saying good-bye to Joseph's mom, Anna Mary

December: candlelight Christmas Eve meal

August: in Pindanganga preschool, they're using toys!!

March: meeting Joseph's nephew, Steven, six years old

July: seeing a nhau, the picture explains all that I know.

October: Jalen and Miana playing...I just adore my family

May: Joseph on boat ride. I just adore him too.

August: baobobs, inspiring trees

April: a bush bath

June: that fish has got some serious overbite

October: a cousin picnic

September: a spring walk in Harare

September: blooming jacarandas in Harare

May: Joseph on the beach

May: cold cokes

September: a friend's wedding.

September: more cool trees (eucalyptus, and yeah, I know, their root systems are like way too extensive and ruin other vegetation, but they're still majestic.)

October: my awesome friend Trina

October: Deanna and Lexi

October: laughter among grief

October: Laura, Phoebe, Carl

September: Mom and Kyle

May: snorkling

December: record snowfall. Emily, the princess snowangel.