2009 has been an eventful year! I chose to review this year before I started planning for the next. After doing so it seemed that I could come up with better plans then the, lose 10 lbs...oh wait I'm pregnant I don't have to worry about that for a bit anyways!
Tim and I celebrated our 1 year wedding anniversary and our 5 year anniversary together. It was an amazing year and although people say that getting married can make things trickier it seems to me that it made it so much easier! Sometimes it is just nice having a title to define something that makes us feel more comfortable in it. Hopefully everyone that wants to get married to share their lives and love together will get this opportunity because it really is amazing. I look forward to many, many more years together to learn and grow together.
I graduated from Buena Vistas with my BA in English and Psychology! I love school but I have to admit I was so happy to be done. It was so nice to meet that goal and graduate with honors. I plan on going on for my masters in the next year or two but for right now I'm enjoying reading for enjoyment and focusing on family life and planning for the future without worrying about studying or papers. I am starting to miss it though!
Unfortunately in May I suffered from a miscarriage. Tim and I had started working on having a family in January and after a job change we thought it was finally happening. Unfortunately the baby just was not ready to come into the world yet and we lost it over Memorial Day weekend. It was one of the hardest things Tim and I had to go through together but fortunately I did not suffer from a lot of self blame or shame. We tried to understand that a healthy baby and a baby that was ready for the world would come to us and it was something we had to surrender control of.
In September we found out again that we were pregnant and still have the baby in my tummy today :) We have been lucky enough to pass the milestones of hearing the heartbeat, seeing the little one wiggle on the 1st ultrasound, and now I am feeling it move inside of me as well. I am so greatful to the little human inside of me because I know it is going to push me to be the person I want to be!
Being pregnant is a dream come true but so was having the ability to open my own boutique! Fannie's Closet was opened in August of this year and although it's not a multi million dollar grossing company I am so happy with it! It is really amazing to get to do something you love everyday and something that will work with having a family. I went from working 12 hours a day and seeing my husband 15 mins to getting to have fun for 8-10 hours a day and seeing my husband at night for supper and go to bed at that same time! I never thought those moments would be that important but they sure are.
So that's a brief recap of the major events in my life in 2009. I want to use them to achieve the following goals in 2010:
1) Surrender to that which I cannot control! I love having control and taking the lead but that doesn't work all the time. It drives me nuts when I can't predict the outcome of things but I need to work on realizing that it just isn't possible 100% of the time. This will probably be one of the hardest ones for me to do so it will be a work in progress.
2) Simplify my life! I've started this and want to make sure I continue doing it. Going from 2 incomes to 1 helps in this area. I never thought having less money would be a blessing but it has taught me to decipher between a want and a need.
3) Stop comparing myself to others/become less materialist! This goes along with the above one.
4) Work on becoming the best wife and mother I can be. I learn new things everyday and the work in this area won't stop at the end of 2010 but it's nice to realize it needs to happen and I need to work on it even when I think I'm perfect ;)
I think those 4 will giving me something to work on for the entire year plus some :) I am so ready for the year to come and to see how the new events will change my future! Happy New Years to everyone a little early!
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i know of a book that i read around our first month of marriage that helped me overcome a lot of my shortcomings as a wife! it is a Christian book, but let me know if you're interested! the author is very straight-forward, so i think you'd appreciate it.
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