The Past Year in Review

I started this post on Tuesday...now it's Friday. Where has the time gone!

Our little family took a trip up to St. Joseph, MI last weekend. Weston had a great time playing on the beach there...even though it was really tough for him to walk. In fact, it was impossible for him to walk in the sand. He just kept falling over. It was truly fun and precious to watch him experience sand for the first time (well, aside from when he was 3 months old when we went to myrtle beach-that doesn't really count though b/c he didn't really care much for the whole thing).
After many attempts at walking, he decided it was best if he just sat there. So he sat and stared at the little boys throwing sand at each other. I made sure to let him know this was not appropriate behaviour and that if he decides to partake in such behaviours, mommy will make the sand extinct...that's what we tell him about everything-if he plays more with his toy tirger instead of eating, then the tiger will go extinct (we take it away) but you get the point. All of his toys at one point or another have or will have gone extinct or are endangered.




This year has been one of many trials and a lot of fear/anxiety.
Last March/April, Chad lost his job.
Hard core remodeling of the house starts seeing as we couldn't afford it on unemployment.
April 8th-After 26 hours of exhausting labor, our precious boy was born by emergency c-section. We were told he might have to be taken to a hospital in Toledo if he didn't straighten up. He got his act together and I got to hold him 4 hours later.
May/June-Chad gets hired on at KTH. We live half of our time in Bryan and the other half in New Carlisle until October.
July-Our house goes on the Market.
October-Our house sells-all of our stuff gets moved to storage-where it still sits.
November-We find out we are expecting.
December/January-we tell the news of our pregnancy.
January 12-I had a miscarriage.
April-Mom gets diagnosed with breast cancer, has a bi-lateral masectomy, and awaits news of further treatment.
Busy busy-Not to mention all of the travelling we have been doing.
What a busy year. And all of this was mixed in with our day to day lives and holidays and family gatherings. If God would have told me we were going to go through everything that we did this year-I wouldn't have believed him. In fact, I wouldn't have believed that we would make it through and be stronger and closer than we were at the beginning of it all. This could rip a family a part. Thankfully we made it!
Well, i ought to A. either get lunch or B. Go mow whilst little one sleeps.