The World Didn’t End…and other highlights of 2012

For the past four years of the 5.5 years that I have been blogging, I have done some sort of year-end wrap up.  Some years I’ve done pictures (so much work) and last year I got all creative with an exit-interview.
(Past Year-In-Review Posts for a Sparknotes-style quick glance at Sluiter Nation: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011)

I’m not going to be so creative this year. At all.  But I’m taking a note from John and using bullet-points, so at least it will be readable.

• The third trimester of pregnancy in a tiny car in the winter.
• Blogging friends having babies all over the dang world.
• A real maternity leave
• A baby boy who healed my horrible heart wounds that I refused to let heal before.
• OCD
• PPD
• PTSD
• General Anxiety Disorder
• Depression
• Celexa
• Kolonopin (I have no idea how to spell that and I am too lazy to go look at the Rx)
• The merging of the two high schools in the district where I teach
• Drunk driving killing my students
• Project 365
• Moving my classroom to a new building
• A healthier (mentally) C-section recovery
• six months of being a stay at home mom
• potty training
• teething
• new writing gigs
• splitting my teaching time between two buildings (high school and junior high)
• Cort hitting the 5-year mark of being a non-smoker
• A new niece on each side of the family: Lilly and Maria
• Eddie turned 3
• I turned 34
• Cort turned 34
• Charlie’s first Christmas (and every other holiday between March 13 and Dec 31)
• I started devotions with #SheReadsTruth
• I worked with BlogHer, SITS, Imagine Toys, and BabyHudle (US)
• I bought my ticket to BlogHer13
• I turned a bloggy friend into a real friend
• I worked on being a better wife, mom, friend, and all around human (I still have lots of work to do)
• I got glasses
• I took a DSLR class
• I prayed for someone who was hurting deeply and whom I thought didn’t really know me, only to become very good friends.
• kidney stones
• the world didn’t end, but my nephew Jack did turn 8 on Dec 21
• a new vehicle
• becoming a family of four
• Cort graduated
• weighing less the day I went in to have Charlie than the day I got pregnant with Charlie
• gaining baby weight after having the baby
• losing 11 pounds and then finding half of it back again
• having friends who we can play cards with until 2am and not regret it in the morning.
• a pregnancy that has me {almost} as excited as I get when I am pregnant.

That’s is.

Well, that’s probably not it.  I probably missed something.

And I left on sort of a weirdly cryptic note.  But ha!  I can!

See ya, 2012.  2011 was right, you were a funny guy.  ::high fives::

I can only hope that 2013 is 2012’s twin in awesome.