As this year closes out I have a very simple wish for each of you. I pray that you may have hope. Great hopes. The kind that you can’t tell anyone for fear of sounding like some kind of nut job.
I am not praying that you get what you want. Looking back there are a lot of things that I wanted that I am glad I never received. I want you to have more.
I want you to believe in something; to have hope that something that seems so far fetched right now is possible.
I wish for you a drive to do the unexplainable in the name of the impossible.
You know those days where you are in a real funk and everyone knows it but you just don’t know why? I’ve had a few of those this past month. 
My mom is an amazing woman. Actually, she’s not my mom, she’s Beth’s mom. I just refuse to add the “in-law” tag as she defies all the imagery of a typical in-law.