Ok, so I realize it has been a while since I have wrote a post. December proved to be an extraordinarily busy month for me. My husband was finishing up his Master’s Degree, the kids were out of school, and I was working like a mad women because while other jobs slow down around the holidays, that is typically when the hospital is at it’s busiest.
In December we had a wonderful Christmas, and also had friends and family that had struggles in some way. I am blessed that my biggest struggle right now seems to be the fact that I now have no dishwasher, since it decided to quit working on Christmas Eve and we do not have it in the budget to repair or replace it. I have come to embrace my situation and I will learn to love dry hands because surprisingly my dishes seem much cleaner with the hand washing method, even though it does take more time.
Now it is January. The new year. For most it is just about taking down the Christmas decorations and trying to make it to Spring, but for me it is a wonderful month. It is the month my first child was born. My wonderful GIRL. I am so so glad I had a girl first. She is wonderful in every way, even though she is my exact opposite. She loves crafts and trying new things. She is super unorganized and would probably forget her shoes if she was not reminded to put them on. She is however like me in how picky she is and how helpful she can be. She can see when there is a need and she will help in any way she can. She loves her brothers even though I know she longs for one of them to be a girl, she makes do by getting Aaron to play salon with her, and she returns the favor by playing cars and Batman with him.
I am coming to terms with the fact that she is not my baby anymore. She is almost as tall as me and grows out of her clothes every other week. I am aware that she is closer now to driving then she is to being a toddler again. I am so blessed to have her in my life and I can’t wait to celebrate her being 9, even though I have told her she doesn’t get a birthday this year because she can’t get any older. Happy Birthday Lauren! I love you!