2016 Highlights
Wow, what an unforgettable year 2016 has been.
To be honest, it started off pretty miserably. The transition from zero to one child was unexpectedly difficult. Now I feel like I'm over the hump and could easily have more kids, but zero to one...WHOA. What a ride it has been.
This year has definitely been a year of growth and change. It's hard to articulate, but overall I feel...
- Less patient
- More confident
- Less worrisome
- More generous
The thing that stands out to me the most this year is the amount of support I've gotten from my family. I've always been close to my parents, but I have relied on them more than ever before and they have really been my rock. I'm pretty sure they kept me from jumping off a cliff on numerous occasions. :)
Another thing that stands out is how sick I have been this year! I'm usually never sick, but I've been through two major stomach viruses and other minor illnesses this year. Cam has not been sick at all, which makes me think I gave him all of my immunity when he was born!
Despite being sick (again!) for these final two weeks of the year, I'm ending 2016 on a high note.
When I look back at certain moments this year, I can definitely say it's been one of the happiest times of my life, mostly thanks to this young man, God's gift to the world:
"The message is simple: When you come to one of the many moments in life when you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, do not, I pray, discount that you filled [my] days with a sated joy, a joy unknown to me in all my prior years, a joy that does not hunger for more and more, but rests, satisfied. In this time, right now, that is an enormous thing.”
2016 Highlights
To be honest, it started off pretty miserably. The transition from zero to one child was unexpectedly difficult. Now I feel like I'm over the hump and could easily have more kids, but zero to one...WHOA. What a ride it has been.
This year has definitely been a year of growth and change. It's hard to articulate, but overall I feel...
- Less patient
- More confident
- Less worrisome
- More generous
The thing that stands out to me the most this year is the amount of support I've gotten from my family. I've always been close to my parents, but I have relied on them more than ever before and they have really been my rock. I'm pretty sure they kept me from jumping off a cliff on numerous occasions. :)
Another thing that stands out is how sick I have been this year! I'm usually never sick, but I've been through two major stomach viruses and other minor illnesses this year. Cam has not been sick at all, which makes me think I gave him all of my immunity when he was born!
Despite being sick (again!) for these final two weeks of the year, I'm ending 2016 on a high note.
When I look back at certain moments this year, I can definitely say it's been one of the happiest times of my life, mostly thanks to this young man, God's gift to the world:
"The message is simple: When you come to one of the many moments in life when you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, do not, I pray, discount that you filled [my] days with a sated joy, a joy unknown to me in all my prior years, a joy that does not hunger for more and more, but rests, satisfied. In this time, right now, that is an enormous thing.”
- When Breath Becomes Air
2016 Highlights
- Every moment with Cam.
- Every moment with our dogs / pet therapy at the Ronald McDonald House with Pippa
- A weekend at my parents house in January. It snowed that weekend and I had a lot of extra help with a newborn!
- Regular days spent at home doing routine stuff around our house.
- My sister's wedding
- The Stand
- Basement renovation!!!
- More involvement with my church and my Sunday School class
- Annapolis, Wrightsville Beach, Las Vegas, Bermuda, and Palm Beach
- Blueberry picking out in the country. It was sunny and hot, and overall just a perfect summer day.
- Being pampered at the Umstead spa
- Fun nights out with friends
- Discovering Fixer-Upper this December for the first time!! Now I stream the HGTV show and I just finished reading the Magnolia Story. It has been life-changing, haha!
- Celebrating our fourth wedding anniversary, surviving our 8th year together, and adjusting to our first year as parents. Brian still has the best (and most unexpected) humor of anyone I know, but you have to catch him at just the right moment. Those moments make me the happiest.
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