Life in a nutshell over the last 15 months…
Once again, I have not updated for a very long time. I’m just not very into the blogging thing, I guess. I’ve decided to try harder, though! (At the urging of the hubby…)
It’s been 15 months since I last posted anything. And what a 15 months it’s been… Well, the last 3 months of 2009 was rather uneventful. We had great holiday gatherings with family, basically.
Enter the New Year… 2010 has been filled with more sadness, more stress, and some happy stuff too. Many ups and downs.
Unfortunately, I do not feel at liberty to discuss certain events that occurred throughout early in 2010 (January – March, let’s say) that have filled me with sadness and that I’ve tried so hard to move past, but it still keeps me awake some nights. 2010 began on a tumultuous, stressful, sad note and it seems to have set the tone for the rest of the year. There’s really nothing more I can say about that.
February did bring joy as my brother and sister-in-law welcomed a beautiful baby girl into the family!! She’s such a doll, with sparkling blue eyes!
March and April brought significantly more sadness as we watched my grandmother (the one I’ve posted so much about in the past) continually get weaker in her battle with breast cancer. She passed away on April 18, 2010. I am still filled with sadness, especially as we approach Christmas. Thanksgiving was hard, but Christmas without her looms before me. She always loved Christmas. I miss her so much.
May is a blur of sadness and pain in my memory. Of course, we did have a lot of soccer and tee ball games to enjoy!
June brought the end of the school year and much happiness for the kids! Again, we attended the WV Christian Endeavor Convention, this time at the Warwood Christian Church in Warwood, WV. Immediately upon returning from the convention, my oldest son went away for a week of church camp at Elkhorn Valley Christian Service Camp in Bergholz, OH and had a fabulous time!! He can’t wait until next time!
July brought an intense mixture of happiness and sadness. My husband and I celebrated our 14th wedding anniversary on the 6th of July….that very same day, my other grandmother (my dad’s mom) passed away. She had lived in a nursing home for about 2 1/2 years, continually declining from Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases until they finally claimed her life just before midnight on the 6th of July. So, after having her funeral, we went away for the weekend to celebrate our anniversary. It was a very odd time. I was sad at losing Gram, yet it was almost as if I had already mourned her because she had already been “gone” so long. She hadn’t recognized anyone in along time and most of the time she was asleep, when she was awake, she just wasn’t there… I miss her terribly, I’ve missed her for a long time. None the less, it was wonderful to be away with the hubby for our anniversary.
August brought another week of VBS (Vacation Bible School), another fun CE Graduation/Bible School picnic, my parents’ 40th Wedding Anniversary, and the start of the school year!
Now, here we are in December. My oldest son is in 4th grade this year and my youngest son started kindergarten this year! Oh, how bittersweet that has been! He’s getting used to it, though. It’s taken some time, but he’s doing fine! I’m so proud of both my boys!
Christmas is just around the corner and I’ve not even started shopping yet, (Life is quite busy with cub scouts, basketball games, church Christmas play practices, etc, etc…) but it’ll get done!
And maybe, I just might post a little more regularly in the New Year…