2010 In a Glance
CincoMom did this and I sure loved it, it's a year at a glance and it wasn't that easy for me to narrow down one picture per month but this is how it came out.
January - began good, things were happy, I was on my eat right, move lots routine and feeling pretty good about life in general.
February - Always a fun month, we can put hearts everywhere and it's all about love, not just the 14th but the entire month. My neighbor and friend Lynda found out she had cancer, she was going through her chemo and treatments, my life is good, I'm healthy and my friend and neighbor is fighting for her life, sometimes it doesn't seem very fair. The only thing we could do as a neighborhood and church was to support her with gifts of food and helping her with her family. She is in remission now and it was a Happy Christmas this year.
March - In March the madness begins, spring soccer practice starts and things begin to feel busy, I find peace in the word and prayer gets me through my days.
April - This month was very emotional and very hard for our family. My grandpa got real sick again with cancer, he has fought it for over 20 years always beating it, but this go around he was finished, he was ready to go and told us he had lived a really great life and cancer was too hard to take on just one more time, so we visited lots and tried to get as much conversations and hugs before he left us, there were many tears in April.
May - I turned 40 on May 3rd and on May 6th grandpa died, we celebrated 17 years of marriage on May 22 and all the while soccer still went on and life just kept going and it wasn't easy but it's life.
June - The garden showed promise.
July - My sister came to visit us from France and spent a few months with her family, it was so wonderful and one of the more happy occasions. She made it here to help grandpa die but those were under very sad conditions. We grew closer as together in May we stayed with grandpa in his final days.
August - Max came into our lives and it's funny how a fuzzy little animal can make one happy, and he has brought much joy to our family.
September - we wrapped up summer with a camping trip with good old friends, it was nice and felt needed.
October - I realized I needed to get a little help and I also needed to realize love can be found just about anyplace if we only open our eyes to it and even in the darkest times we have to look to the light because if we don't we create our own sad world.
November - fall was barely showing it's colors here in California but that's okay because thanks to flickr I was able to see lots of beautiful fall pictures from all the flickr friends back east. We spent Thanksgiving at our family cabin, enjoyed time together and got to play in the snow.
December - had to be kept simple this year we had no choice in the matter, however we learned something very valuable, the kids seemed to be just as happy and content with little gifts and we had fun making tons of snow flakes and homemade crafts, it felt like Christmas had a deeper meaning than all the commercialism I so easily find myself getting caught up in, I could really appreciate the reason for the season. It felt nice and I'm ready for 2011, I think it will be very good.
2010 In a Glance
CincoMom did this and I sure loved it, it's a year at a glance and it wasn't that easy for me to narrow down one picture per month but this is how it came out.
January - began good, things were happy, I was on my eat right, move lots routine and feeling pretty good about life in general.
February - Always a fun month, we can put hearts everywhere and it's all about love, not just the 14th but the entire month. My neighbor and friend Lynda found out she had cancer, she was going through her chemo and treatments, my life is good, I'm healthy and my friend and neighbor is fighting for her life, sometimes it doesn't seem very fair. The only thing we could do as a neighborhood and church was to support her with gifts of food and helping her with her family. She is in remission now and it was a Happy Christmas this year.
March - In March the madness begins, spring soccer practice starts and things begin to feel busy, I find peace in the word and prayer gets me through my days.
April - This month was very emotional and very hard for our family. My grandpa got real sick again with cancer, he has fought it for over 20 years always beating it, but this go around he was finished, he was ready to go and told us he had lived a really great life and cancer was too hard to take on just one more time, so we visited lots and tried to get as much conversations and hugs before he left us, there were many tears in April.
May - I turned 40 on May 3rd and on May 6th grandpa died, we celebrated 17 years of marriage on May 22 and all the while soccer still went on and life just kept going and it wasn't easy but it's life.
June - The garden showed promise.
July - My sister came to visit us from France and spent a few months with her family, it was so wonderful and one of the more happy occasions. She made it here to help grandpa die but those were under very sad conditions. We grew closer as together in May we stayed with grandpa in his final days.
August - Max came into our lives and it's funny how a fuzzy little animal can make one happy, and he has brought much joy to our family.
September - we wrapped up summer with a camping trip with good old friends, it was nice and felt needed.
October - I realized I needed to get a little help and I also needed to realize love can be found just about anyplace if we only open our eyes to it and even in the darkest times we have to look to the light because if we don't we create our own sad world.
November - fall was barely showing it's colors here in California but that's okay because thanks to flickr I was able to see lots of beautiful fall pictures from all the flickr friends back east. We spent Thanksgiving at our family cabin, enjoyed time together and got to play in the snow.
December - had to be kept simple this year we had no choice in the matter, however we learned something very valuable, the kids seemed to be just as happy and content with little gifts and we had fun making tons of snow flakes and homemade crafts, it felt like Christmas had a deeper meaning than all the commercialism I so easily find myself getting caught up in, I could really appreciate the reason for the season. It felt nice and I'm ready for 2011, I think it will be very good.