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2015 Wrap Up

31 Thursday Dec 2015

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2015, 2016, Anniversary, cape may, DC, New Years, shoulder surgery, toddler, vegas, Wrap Up, year end

What good is having a blog if you don’t take a moment to collect your thoughts and reflect everything that has happened over the past year?

2015 was interesting and exciting year for our family. In January we were on month #6 of trying to get pregnant, and after a very early miscarriage in November I was convinced something was wrong with me. Luckily, within the first two weeks of the year, I got pregnant (Although I didn’t know it until after a weekend in Vegas- figures huh)!

One thing I never shared was that my husband’s grandmother passed away in early January. I remember it was during one of my prime times for getting preggers, and I sort of wondered if we would conceive about the same time she passed… and we did, and with a little girl. I really felt a big “circle of life” moment when I did find out I was pregnant.

In April, the hubby had shoulder surgery to fix years of pain and dislocations he had been suffering with. It was a really challenging time for us; I struggled being the caretaker for him, our son, and keeping up with my job and the house work (and let’s be honest, the house work was kept to a minimum). Hubby struggled to watch me, and not be able to do much to help (and he couldn’t wait to be the one doing the cooking again).

The rest of the year we spent a lot of time working, preparing not only for a new baby, but the birth itself, and spending as much time as we could with the toddler while he was still an only child. We took a trip to our favorite beach town Cape May, NJ, and celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary with an overnight trip to DC (and went to a restaurant that did not have children). In between were midwife appointments, trips to the physical therapist for hubby and chiropractor for me.

It’s crazy how quickly the summer months passed. It felt like all of a sudden I was face to face with my due date and just waiting day after day for our lives to change again.  Eventually baby girl made her entrance earth side, and we’ve begun a whole new balancing act.

I think about how I started this year feeling sad and frustrated. I spent a weekend in Vegas for work, and it was the first time in a long time I wasn’t trapped in my head, and I was just having fun (and in meetings of course). Two days after, a little pee stick changed everything and my year was brighter.

I’m so happy to have my amazing husband, and our two amazing children. 2015 has been a good year, and I hope 2016 brings just as much joy and love.

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PS: I also saw Dave Matthews Band for the 11th time, and the Bills have missed the playoffs for the 16th year in a row. Unfortunately, the DMB shows don’t outweigh the playoffs.

 

 

Six Reasons We’ve Been Married for Six Years

22 Monday Jun 2015

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This weekend the hubby and I celebrated six years of wedded bliss staying married. Marriage isn’t easy and so I thought I’d share six things that have brought us to a successful six years. (All views are from my perspective, he was not consulted on this post- surprise, surprise).

1. We remember everything is temporary. The times that things seem too tough to go on. The moments that we feel invincible. The highs and the lows are part of the roller coaster ride that is marriage. I think it’s been important that we acknowledge both while we’re in the moment and to remind ourselves each day will have the potential to bring a new challenge or a new success.

2. He lets me win. I like to be right…mostly because I know I am. But, even when I’m not (rare), he will let me win because he knows the conversation will not end until I feel like I’ve accomplished victory.

3. We both hate people. We don’t hate ALL people, just the morons that are roaming the earth that constantly interrupt the flow of our day with their stupidity. Sometimes it’s our neighbors, sometimes it’s our clients, mostly it’s random strangers that park too close to our car in the parking lot or meander down the grocery aisle with two carts side by side blocking the aisle completely. We bond on the daily frustrations we endure with the general public, and it makes us a stronger team.

4. He refuses to answer questions that have no right answer. He has fallen victim to the “does this make me look fat?” many times. Unfortunately for him, the expectedly correct response of “no” is not in fact correct. Even when he’s made the attempt to tell me I look fine, I will nitpick. His exact words, the tone he said them, how long he looked at me before head said them, or I will just straight out reject his opinion and conclude that I do indeed look fat and that he is a horrible person for almost letting me leave the house looking like that. Now when I ask questions like this his response is to remind me no matter what he says I won’t be happy, so he pleads the fifth.

5. Yin and Yang is legit. We are opposites in most aspects of life. I love the beach, he loves the forest. I spew all of my feelings in a dramatic fashion, he quietly keeps his annoyances to himself. We really do balance each other out; left to our own devices either of us could self destruct. Because we have the other, there is someone there to equalize the energy and bring a perspective that our own brain would never consider.

6. We both choose to continue to love each other.  It’s really that simple. Every day we choose to continue in this relationship. There are good days and bad days, but everyday we work at this marriage. I’m so thankful to have a partner that won’t give up on me when I suck, so I in turn won’t give up on him when he sucks.

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Now let’s hope I didn’t just jinx it all. 

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