This year was dedicated to the word Permission. So it’s appropriate for me to end the year by giving myself permission to rest. I don’t know about you, but the end of the year feels like a hurricane of activity. Our holidays seem to last for a couple of weeks. We travel several hours to make it to a couple of gatherings which include several overnight stays. We have a quiet Christmas, but also invite a guest or three to pop in throughout the day. The kids are home from school (a different and welcome kind of crazy). And there’s the year-end wrap up for The Painted Pen … In…