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.
What a roller coaster huh!! But you kept your head up, and you made 2012 your underling. Here is to 2013.. Pregnancy?
Congrats!
Oh, maybe I read that wrong.
WHO’S PREGNANT???
What a year, eh?
May 2013 be awesomesauce.
I think I know what pregnancy you are talking about and if I’m right, I am excited too!
i love bullet points. plain and simple. I can’t wait to meet you for more than 2min this summer!! Yay for 2013!
Does this mean you have something to tell us “a pregnancy that has me {almost} as excited as I get when I am pregnant.” ?
Oh, sweet friend! What a year…and I can hear in your voice the strength and the mother bear that you are.
Happy New Year to you and your lovely family!
I love this… great way to recap and it wasn’t cryptic at all. 🙂 Wishing you more wonderful in 2013!