Today is the day, the first day of my new year life circle, the day we can take it easy with our farm work, the day I can take my morning walk again. Hooray!

Coffee pickers came to pick the last round right before Christmas, Terry’s two nieces and their families visited the island for this holiday season, we had a busy and wonderful holiday with lots of family time.

Liam and Maddi, they are 13 and 12 years old, their family rented a beach house at Ke’ei beach, not very far from our place. every day Sonny asked same question many times, ” Are we going to Liam and Maddi’s place to have dinner?” or ” Are they come to our house to have dinner?”

If we did have a meal with them, he always had his toy pistol, toy rifle, and wooden gun with him, so they can play chasing and shooting game. He always teamed up with Maddi, to against Liam. If they came up to our place, three of them ran in the farm, played their shooting game.

If it was late and dark outside, they can play one of Sonny’s favorite games, which was playing Bombers At War on the computer, Liam showed Sonny how to get higher score; and played the game together.

They both were so patient and played so good with Sonny, he wanted to go with them when they were leaving. it was first time to him, at home base, tasted the life with cousins nearby, play with them almost every day. It was first time for us to see, the full excitement in him every second when he played and ran around with them. It’s the most special Christmas to him.

After the harvest, we couldn’t find any help to prune the trees right away; we started to do it ourselves while waiting for the help. I did the most of pruning on the upper section, Terry did the most of chopping.

It was my second year of pruning, I cut down lots of old branches, seems pruned heavier than before. I asked Terry’s opinion, he said:” I don’t know, you’ll find it out after next year’s harvest.” He want me to learn taking care the farm by my own way, making my own mistake on the way. He said:” Don’t worry, you can’t make too big damage by pruning.”

Later I got two local friends who helped to prune with me, and three Mexican workers who chopped the branches. They did a great job, now our farm looks very nice.

As soon as we cleaned a section, Terry put the CBB traps out.  It’s the best time to set the trap around the farm; bugs are looking for a home, but there are hardly any cherrys on the tree except the traps, they caught lots of bugs.

Through last year’s experience of dealing with CBB, we believe we can keep CBB’s population down. We milled this crop, it looks very good, the coffee we are sending out right now are this fresh crop.

If your life is full or busy, time seems fly by with a blink. One more year of our life disappeared, we are getting older, our child is getting bigger, stronger and smarter. Watching our child grow brings a smile to our face, every aging sneaking up  on us slowly. Like Terry said, building a child is more interesting than building a farm.

This morning I told Terry: ” I love our life,  raiseing a child together. We are so lucky to have each other and love each other. Someday, when Sonny grows up and out from the house, and you are gone, it will be a lonely life for me. ”

Terry said:” Today won’t come back, today is the day in your life. Enjoy today when you have it, enjoy the happiness when you are live in it. Don’t waste too much time to worry about the thing in the future. ” I know he is right, I’m trying to enjoy the happy moments we have right now.

In this new year, I wish our families and friends enjoy their life as much as we do, and a very good new year to look forward.

Best wishes to everyone !