With the
holidays behind us, we are just over a week into the new year. The snow has begun to fall in buckets it
would seem, and turning everything into a winter wonderland. Is it bad that I've already had enough of
winter?
To say
that 2014 was a busy year is a serious understatement. As with most, it was packed with a variety of
challenges and triumphs. The beauty of
hindsight is that you can often look past the shadows in that rear-view mirror,
and clearly focus on the highlights and this year, we were lucky to have more
than a few.
The year
kicked off with my celebration of 6 years post gastric-bypass. This in itself wouldn't sound like such a
huge deal, except for the fact that had I not had the surgery, doctor's
predicted I wouldn't live 5 more years.
The surgery turned into an ordeal that saw me in hospital for the whole
of 2008, but in the end I got to come home.
For a
time things seemed pretty uncertain, and I'd come home pretty incapacitated,
but I fought my way back onto my feet.
I've become pretty fond of saying that stubborn isn't always a bad
thing, with a big grin of course! I take
somewhat of a deeper pleasure now in all of the things I wouldn't have gotten
to enjoy had I not taken that leap.
In 2014…
We
celebrated 17 years as a family, welcomed our first grandson just in time for
Easter dinner, making him among the first in our family to show up early for
anything! Not long after our youngest
daughter turned 20, signalling the end of an era - the last teenager graduating
to adulthood.
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| Brayden William James Sanderson made his arrival on April 20th, 2014 effectively upgrading himself from jelly bean, to easter egg! This is one of the very first photos we were able to take of him while he was still in the incubator. |
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| Time sure flies when you're hanging out with a good friend. <3 |
Somewhere
in there I turned 45, and I find myself musing at just when I blinked and
jumped from 25 to 45 ~ so much has happened in that time frame, so much packed
into each and every chapter. Some flowing together, and others seemingly having
nothing to do with one another; quite an eclectic mix.
My hubby
and I were both active with a variety of community pursuits, enjoyed a variety
of hobbies, and professional pursuits and took on a few new challenges.
We made some serious headway on our house recuperation after dual repairs/renovations, and the clutter collected during many years of med issues, both in and out of our house. It's finally feeling like we're getting somewhere and I couldn't be happier about that!
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| A surprise birthday visit from her brand new nephew for her birthday ~ Happy Birthday Auntie Caelly! |
We ended
the year with a holiday filled with family and friends, and a surprise visit
from friends who were home for the holidays.
We were blessed to have all of our kids home for Christmas and a few
extra days to visit with the kids who live further away from home.
We all
have a lot to deal with in life - but if you take the time to look for it you
might just notice how truly blessed we all are.
This world would be a far happier place if we all made a point of
looking for those smiles and happiness, instead of focussing on the sadness and
tears.
This
life is short ~ make the most of it!
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