See ya 2013

This is a hard year to look back on and find many highlights, but I'm sure as I do it a few more will come to mind!

• Bill started a job in Toxicology in early January.  It wasn't the best job ever (no benefits, no time off) but it was a job and it kept us floating for most of this year.  It was technically temporary and they let all their temps go in October, so he is back to the job search.  It's not easy for him.  
• Feburary my Grandparents help pay for me to fly to my other Grandparents in Idaho after my Grandfather is put in the hospital after a heart attack.  Amazing weekend being with my mom and her family.  Plenty of drama, but very glad I went, as it was my last visit. 
• March, on the way home from our neices birthday party, I'm feeling nauseated which prompts me to take a pregnancy test in which we discover we are expecting number 3!
• I decide to enlist a friend and actually start trying to sell some crochet stuff.  It was really fun to contemplate and start although hard to generate business.  My friend is the one who has some real talent for crochet and runs this business on her own now (for reasons that will make sense shortly).   You can find her on Facebook.  Sometimes things you do end up not being for you.  Wanting to start this was one of those things in my life.
• Bill works away on his new armor made with metal scales.  It's really cool!  
• June, Memaw passed away.  She is missed by many. (my step moms mother)
• After returning from a visit to Bills grandmothers (we went with his parents, his mom is such a trooper traveling) I get called for an interview at Eastern.  I had applied for my former bosses job (she retired) and I interviewed for it on our anniversary.  I started that job mid August and am still plugging away at it.
• Speaking of, we celebrate our 10th anniversary!  
• Miriam starts kindergarden and transitions beautifully.  She loves to go to school.
• I have gestational diabetes.  It seems to explain, at least in part, why I often feel sick even later in pregnancy.  It's managed fine by diet.  
• October, my Grandpa passes away.  
• November we meet our little guy, Nathan!  He is super sweet.
•  I start back to work part time after 8 days.  Which is a long story that deserves more than a bullet point.
• We take Nathan to meet his Grandmother (Bills mom) when he is 3 days old.  Grandma had taken a turn for the worst.  She passed away about a week later, on Thanksgiving.
• A nice Christmas in the Tri Cities.  All Bills siblings were there and we had a great Christmas Eve at his sisters house.  My kids would spend every waking minute with their cousins if they could.

I am ready to leave this year behind.  There are a hundred things I could write in my post for 2014 but I am trying to come to grips that I am a working parent with a new baby.  2014 will probably be a lot of lost sleep.  I don't think that will stop me from writing a looking forward post...stay tuned.