A Backwards Glance at 2008
I know that 2009 has been here for quite some time. I mean, you've all probably stopped writing "08" on your checks by now. Maybe not. Sometimes I still write "99." Don't laugh. That was the year I became a mother, and we all know that children suck brain cells away like X-Men's Rogue (who, by the way has the coolest name AND the hair of the gang) sucks away others' powers.
Anyway, I thought it might be fun to go through the beginning-ish sentences of some of last years blog posts and see what kind of story they tell.
January 8 Okay, it's been almost forever since I've talked to you.
Today was a little hard, but not too bad.
January 9 I thought today would be harder than it is.
January 10 Today I spent a lot of time searching.
January 17 Last week was really hard.
January 24 Today is Day 17.
January 26 Caleb: "You know what Jesus is working on right now?"
February 7 "Gong Xi Fa Cai" or Lots of blessings and prosperity to you!
February 13 Two years! How they have zipped right on by.
February 20 40 days of prayer and God speaks...and this is where he is leading.
February 22 I just had to share this picture of my youngest two with you.
February 26 The kids begged me last weekend to let them have a cook-"in," so we rigged some wire hangers and roasted hot dogs and marshmallows for s'mores over the fire in our woodburner.
March 3 "Gabriel is transforming...into a seven-year-old!"
March 5 Last week, on a Sunday afternoon, our neighbor called.
March 13 For Lily's third birthday, my brother Josh and his wife Lana bought her a cute Barbie doll, all decked out for the beach in her fairly conservative bathing suit, wrap and big, beach feet.
March 27 I LOVE Easter. Love it.
March 31 Is your refrigerator running? You'd better go catch it! Hee hee.
April 9 Such a glorious, warm, sunny, earthy, springy weekend we were given!
April 18 I hate coloring my hair.
April 21 I gave my little blog a face lift today...do you like it?
April 23 So it's not as golden as I thought. Rob's new job is not going to work out.
April 24 I know it's officially spring, because literally overnight my weeping cherry trees erupted into full blossom.
April 30 Today Lily and I met my sister Jamie and her daughter Emmaly for a day of shopping (low budget!), lunching and just being together.
May 6 Seth Sightings
May 12 Why I love being a mother. A small sampling.
May 22 My heart is breaking today for a fellow adoptive parent.
This morning the kids and I drove out to Russ Forest to walk the trails.
May 23 I've taken Jeny's yellow challenge.
May 30 What happens when you leave your firefighters in the drier too long.
June 17 Right now, as I type, Rob is in Washington DC, either waiting for his turn to interview with the Navy Chaplain board or actually in the middle of the interview.
June 30 "Lieutenant Fasnacht." It's official!
July 8 I recently joined a yahoo group for military families who homeschool.
July 18 Have I shared with you Caleb's obsession with berries?
July 27 Yee Haw (Picture of Texas license plate, indicating that we will be moving there.)
Okay, so Friday my doctor found an "abdominal mass" the size of a softball parked in my midsection.
July 28 "Dog Show At the Fair" Gabe did really, really well. Disney...she decided she was not a performing monkey and chose obstinance over obedience.
August 5 I've had blood drawn, and I underwent an ultrasound and just yesterday a CT scan. They think it's a cyst, but I'm still waiting for the CT scan results to come back to confirm that's all it is.
"Horse Show" I'm so proud of my little cowboys.
August 11 "My Weenend In Photos and Captions" (Included are photos of Caleb's birthday and Rob's commissioning service at church.)
Blood tests for cancer: normal.
August 13 The Good: The OB surgeon is AWESOME. The Bad: Okay, I'm going to be cut open from above my navel, around my navel, and then down below my navel. The Ugly: 17 cm X 13 cm X 9 cm. Yeah, that's how big this growth is.
I have a surgery date: Tuesday, the 19th at 2:00 p.m.
August 19 "Today's the Day" (Surgery.)
August 21 Hi. I'm home. Very glad to be home.
August 22 Wanna See? ***Warning Graphic Medical Photo
August 31 "Rob's Gone: Day 2"
September 8 I'm still mending, but much to my boys' chagrin, a little tiredness on mama's part does not stop school from coming to our house.
September 17 "The New Justice League" Evil-doers beware!
I told the kids to go outside for "recess" and ride their bikes.
September 18 Pretty Lily
September 23 "Cardboard Testimonies"
::Watch this only if you want to feel so thankful to God for what he can do in a broken person's life::
October 9 The kids and I just returned from a 2100 mile round-trip road trip.
October 24 These autumn days are all running into one another.
November 3 I'm answering Jeny's pink challenge today.
Gabe's first toothless smile in seven years!
November 14 "Two." That's how many days I have left until the movers come and start loading up our stuff.
December 2 The bird has landed...and the mama bird is reassembling the nest. (Okay, that sentences really doesn't make that much sense, does it? Sorry.)
December 15 We're starting to get settled here in TX, though it's kinda hard to feel Christmasy when the needle outside points to 72 degrees.
* * *
A crazy kind of year. I've noticed lots of reasons to be SO thankful to God. I can clearly see His hand throughout it all. I can also see lots of areas that need improvement in my life...and in my writing patterns. We'll work on those things together, you and I, dear reader.
How was your year?
Anyway, I thought it might be fun to go through the beginning-ish sentences of some of last years blog posts and see what kind of story they tell.
January 8 Okay, it's been almost forever since I've talked to you.
Today was a little hard, but not too bad.
January 9 I thought today would be harder than it is.
January 10 Today I spent a lot of time searching.
January 17 Last week was really hard.
January 24 Today is Day 17.
January 26 Caleb: "You know what Jesus is working on right now?"
February 7 "Gong Xi Fa Cai" or Lots of blessings and prosperity to you!
February 13 Two years! How they have zipped right on by.
February 20 40 days of prayer and God speaks...and this is where he is leading.
February 22 I just had to share this picture of my youngest two with you.
February 26 The kids begged me last weekend to let them have a cook-"in," so we rigged some wire hangers and roasted hot dogs and marshmallows for s'mores over the fire in our woodburner.
March 3 "Gabriel is transforming...into a seven-year-old!"
March 5 Last week, on a Sunday afternoon, our neighbor called.
March 13 For Lily's third birthday, my brother Josh and his wife Lana bought her a cute Barbie doll, all decked out for the beach in her fairly conservative bathing suit, wrap and big, beach feet.
March 27 I LOVE Easter. Love it.
March 31 Is your refrigerator running? You'd better go catch it! Hee hee.
April 9 Such a glorious, warm, sunny, earthy, springy weekend we were given!
April 18 I hate coloring my hair.
April 21 I gave my little blog a face lift today...do you like it?
April 23 So it's not as golden as I thought. Rob's new job is not going to work out.
April 24 I know it's officially spring, because literally overnight my weeping cherry trees erupted into full blossom.
April 30 Today Lily and I met my sister Jamie and her daughter Emmaly for a day of shopping (low budget!), lunching and just being together.
May 6 Seth Sightings
May 12 Why I love being a mother. A small sampling.
May 22 My heart is breaking today for a fellow adoptive parent.
This morning the kids and I drove out to Russ Forest to walk the trails.
May 23 I've taken Jeny's yellow challenge.
May 30 What happens when you leave your firefighters in the drier too long.
June 17 Right now, as I type, Rob is in Washington DC, either waiting for his turn to interview with the Navy Chaplain board or actually in the middle of the interview.
June 30 "Lieutenant Fasnacht." It's official!
July 8 I recently joined a yahoo group for military families who homeschool.
July 18 Have I shared with you Caleb's obsession with berries?
July 27 Yee Haw (Picture of Texas license plate, indicating that we will be moving there.)
Okay, so Friday my doctor found an "abdominal mass" the size of a softball parked in my midsection.
July 28 "Dog Show At the Fair" Gabe did really, really well. Disney...she decided she was not a performing monkey and chose obstinance over obedience.
August 5 I've had blood drawn, and I underwent an ultrasound and just yesterday a CT scan. They think it's a cyst, but I'm still waiting for the CT scan results to come back to confirm that's all it is.
"Horse Show" I'm so proud of my little cowboys.
August 11 "My Weenend In Photos and Captions" (Included are photos of Caleb's birthday and Rob's commissioning service at church.)
Blood tests for cancer: normal.
August 13 The Good: The OB surgeon is AWESOME. The Bad: Okay, I'm going to be cut open from above my navel, around my navel, and then down below my navel. The Ugly: 17 cm X 13 cm X 9 cm. Yeah, that's how big this growth is.
I have a surgery date: Tuesday, the 19th at 2:00 p.m.
August 19 "Today's the Day" (Surgery.)
August 21 Hi. I'm home. Very glad to be home.
August 22 Wanna See? ***Warning Graphic Medical Photo
August 31 "Rob's Gone: Day 2"
September 8 I'm still mending, but much to my boys' chagrin, a little tiredness on mama's part does not stop school from coming to our house.
September 17 "The New Justice League" Evil-doers beware!
I told the kids to go outside for "recess" and ride their bikes.
September 18 Pretty Lily
September 23 "Cardboard Testimonies"
::Watch this only if you want to feel so thankful to God for what he can do in a broken person's life::
October 9 The kids and I just returned from a 2100 mile round-trip road trip.
October 24 These autumn days are all running into one another.
November 3 I'm answering Jeny's pink challenge today.
Gabe's first toothless smile in seven years!
November 14 "Two." That's how many days I have left until the movers come and start loading up our stuff.
December 2 The bird has landed...and the mama bird is reassembling the nest. (Okay, that sentences really doesn't make that much sense, does it? Sorry.)
December 15 We're starting to get settled here in TX, though it's kinda hard to feel Christmasy when the needle outside points to 72 degrees.
* * *
A crazy kind of year. I've noticed lots of reasons to be SO thankful to God. I can clearly see His hand throughout it all. I can also see lots of areas that need improvement in my life...and in my writing patterns. We'll work on those things together, you and I, dear reader.
How was your year?
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