Well, the time has come. As it does every year, fall has passed away and winter has set in. It's so clear and exciting as I sit here with my newly purchased Celtic Thunder Christmas CD playing and a unusual amount of snow outside my window! I have had an amazing fall this year and I am so excited about the winter to come... a few days ago the next months did not seem inviting at all but now with all the winteryness around me and an amazing fall behind me I am really looking forward to the next couple of months.
I have had an absolute fantastic fall this year. While the weather was depressingly sunny, and I really did miss the rain there still has been a ton to rejoice about!! I started my very last year of school at home, something I have been dreaming about for a VERY long time! I sometimes think I should be kinda sad about that, but in all honesty, I'm not. Don't get me wrong I have LOVED being homeschooled and wouldn't change that at all, but I am also very excited about going to college, especially for fashion. I've been thinking about college ever since I was an eight year old little girl and couldn't go to private school with my neighbors, the plan has always been that if I couldn't go to private school then I'd go to college and do running start just like my older siblings!
I also turned sixteen this fall, and I happily got to celebrate that with my best friend coming to stay with me for the week. That was great fun and we had alot a grand time taking lots of pics, walking the dogs, and visiting Seattle.
And that's not all that has happened this fall. I got to go see Celtic Thunder live for my very first concert, and I got to go to that with both of my best friends, the two people that I would want most to accompany me to that first concert.
Also, we got my new best friend, a new dishwasher. If you are very close to me and have spent time with me at my house you know just how exciting that is! It was quite the hassle getting a dishwasher that actually works, but it was SO worth it to get one. I am still in heaven about it.
And most exciting of all, this fall I became an aunt to two adorable twin boys named Adam and Oliver. They are the first babies of the Spears family and we are all so very excited about it.
And now, as I have bid fall adieu, I say a hearty hello to my favorite season of all, winter.
And it has already turned out to be an exciting season!!! It's already unusually cold and snowy, and I already have some great memories of this winter. Like me and my dad being two of only four people crazy enough to go see Harry Potter 7 in the middle of a snow storm, watching the last showing before they closed the theater all together. Like sledding down my driveway on a laminated piece of poster board, and like waking up to 24 degree weather and ice on the INSIDE of my window. Not to mention the all around winter feel in the air. I love it all.
And now, a wintery song/poem to send you off with.
Oh! pat, the bitter day when you bravely parted from us,
The mother and myself on the cruel quays of Cork :
When you took the long kiss, and you gave the faithful promise
That you'd soon bring us over wid you at New York
But the times they grew worse through the sild, weary winter,
And my needles all we had to find livin' for us two ;
While the mother drooped and drooped till I knelt down forenint her
And closed her dyin' eyes, dear--but still no word of you.
The the neighbors thought you false to me, but I knew you better,
Though the bud became the leaf, and the corn began to start ;
And the swallow she flew back, and still sorra letter,
but I sewed on and on, Pat, and kep' a stout heart.
Till the leaves they decayed, and the rook and the starlin'
Returned to the stubble, and I'd put by enough
To start at long last in search of my darlin'
Alone across the ocean so unruly and rough.
Until at the end, very weak and very weary,
I reached the overside, and started on my search ;
But no account for ever of Patrick for his Mary,
By advertisin' for you, dear, or callin' you in church.
Yet still I struggled on, though my heart was almost broken
And my torn entirely on the rough, rugged stone ;
Till that day it came round, signs by and by token,
The day five year that we parted you, mavrone!
Oh ! the snow it was sweepin' through the dark, silent city
And the cruel wind it cut through my thin, tattered gown.
Still I prayed the good God on his daughter to take pity ;
When a sudden, strange light shone forenint me up the town.
And the light it led on till at last right opposite
A large, lonely house it vanished, as I stood,
Wid my heart axing wildly of me, was it, oh, was it
A warnin' of ill or a token of good ?
When the light kindled up agin, brighter and bigger,
And the shadow of a woman across the windy passed ;
while close, close, and closer to her stole a man's figure,
And I fainted, as you caught me in your true arms at last.
Then Pat, my own Pat. I saw that you were altered
To the shadow of yourself by the fever on the brain !
While "Mary, Mary darlin'," at last your lips the faltered,
You've given your poor Patrick his mem'ry back again."
And the good, gentle priest, when he comes, is never weary
Of sayin', as he speaks of that light in the snow,
"The Lord heard your prayer, and in pity for you, Mary,
Restored Pat the raison that he lost long ago."
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