Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Hello!
I really have nothing to post tonight. But, I wanted my trusty followers to know that I am still here. I don't know when I will get around to creating a post worth your time. Just know I love you!
Monday, January 9, 2012
2011
One of the busiest of my life, with major changes.
January and February: Visiting my friend while she needed to stay within 30 minutes of her oncologist's hospital after adult stem cell transplant. Met a lot of wonderful people and gained appreciation for good health. Lots and lots of snow!
March: Crazy and fun FAST week planning a wedding with my daughter. She lives several states away and the wedding is at our home parish in August. A friend's grandsons are born 3 months early and we pray them through a roller-coaster ride as they struggle to grow.
April: Observed our 48th birthdays. Husband (who is 36 hours, 5 minutes youger) and I took a short trip in the middle of the month, but had a LONG ride home in a blizzard! CRAZY!
May: Our "baby of the family" baby graduated high school. Our firstborn baby has been here between jobs for seven months and moves out again.
June: Three of our adult children come home on weekends only, work at a camp. Our house is packed with between-semesters dorm/apartment stuff. Bridal shower in our house last Saturday of the month!
July: Last Graduation party at our house first Sunday of the month. Mother-of-the-Bride dress shopping becomes IMPORTANT to other people. Enjoyed the NOCancer Bike Ride and have been conditioning all summer with bike rides and long walks as often as possible.
August: THE WEDDING! Day flew by too quickly! All was absolutely beautiful and wonderful. Great rehearsal dinner, great visit with groom's family the day after. A week later, the campers return and two days after that, we take one to the airport to leave for IRELAND for four months! Two weeks after that, our sons both move to same college; older to his off-campus apartment; youngest to his freshman dorm.
September: Friend valiantly fights, but ultimately loses the battle with cancer. Long, sad month. Grateful for the blessing of kittens and a hammock.
October: Begins with a funeral and the return of the oldest child between jobs again. Trying to get used to chatting and "Skyping" as daughter in Ireland has no phone. Also, blogging enters the scene in our family life. Unbelievably beautiful pro-longed autumn.
November: Move the oldest again. Two weeks later, the youngest drops out and moves back home. Hunting season. Thanksgiving without two children (and son-in-law). Life has significantly changed.
December: All about preparing for Christmas. Daughter returns from Ireland nine days before. Newlyweds come for short visit. All of us together for about a day and a half. WONDERFUL! Weather is strangely mild, mild, mild. Dusting of snow for Christmas, but it doesn't last to the New Year.
New Year's Eve party here with our friends. Very nice. Miss our friend, sad to see her husband and sons without her. We are in this together.
Hoping 2012 will not have so many changes. Looking forward to a two-week road trip to the newlyweds in a few months. Rest of the year is going to be whatever it is going to be! Strange to have no school schedules here, other than knowing when college children may be coming back and forth. Hoping for a December graduation. Newlyweds will be here for Thanksgiving, not Christmas. I will step down from the board of the non-profit I co-founded in June or December. Otherwise, nothing else is on the calendar.
January and February: Visiting my friend while she needed to stay within 30 minutes of her oncologist's hospital after adult stem cell transplant. Met a lot of wonderful people and gained appreciation for good health. Lots and lots of snow!
March: Crazy and fun FAST week planning a wedding with my daughter. She lives several states away and the wedding is at our home parish in August. A friend's grandsons are born 3 months early and we pray them through a roller-coaster ride as they struggle to grow.
April: Observed our 48th birthdays. Husband (who is 36 hours, 5 minutes youger) and I took a short trip in the middle of the month, but had a LONG ride home in a blizzard! CRAZY!
May: Our "baby of the family" baby graduated high school. Our firstborn baby has been here between jobs for seven months and moves out again.
June: Three of our adult children come home on weekends only, work at a camp. Our house is packed with between-semesters dorm/apartment stuff. Bridal shower in our house last Saturday of the month!
July: Last Graduation party at our house first Sunday of the month. Mother-of-the-Bride dress shopping becomes IMPORTANT to other people. Enjoyed the NOCancer Bike Ride and have been conditioning all summer with bike rides and long walks as often as possible.
August: THE WEDDING! Day flew by too quickly! All was absolutely beautiful and wonderful. Great rehearsal dinner, great visit with groom's family the day after. A week later, the campers return and two days after that, we take one to the airport to leave for IRELAND for four months! Two weeks after that, our sons both move to same college; older to his off-campus apartment; youngest to his freshman dorm.
September: Friend valiantly fights, but ultimately loses the battle with cancer. Long, sad month. Grateful for the blessing of kittens and a hammock.
October: Begins with a funeral and the return of the oldest child between jobs again. Trying to get used to chatting and "Skyping" as daughter in Ireland has no phone. Also, blogging enters the scene in our family life. Unbelievably beautiful pro-longed autumn.
November: Move the oldest again. Two weeks later, the youngest drops out and moves back home. Hunting season. Thanksgiving without two children (and son-in-law). Life has significantly changed.
December: All about preparing for Christmas. Daughter returns from Ireland nine days before. Newlyweds come for short visit. All of us together for about a day and a half. WONDERFUL! Weather is strangely mild, mild, mild. Dusting of snow for Christmas, but it doesn't last to the New Year.
New Year's Eve party here with our friends. Very nice. Miss our friend, sad to see her husband and sons without her. We are in this together.
Hoping 2012 will not have so many changes. Looking forward to a two-week road trip to the newlyweds in a few months. Rest of the year is going to be whatever it is going to be! Strange to have no school schedules here, other than knowing when college children may be coming back and forth. Hoping for a December graduation. Newlyweds will be here for Thanksgiving, not Christmas. I will step down from the board of the non-profit I co-founded in June or December. Otherwise, nothing else is on the calendar.
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