So I decided to try to go back and blog everything that I missed out on the last year in the same detail that I have been blogging would take more time than I currently have. I went back and looked at my blog. My last normal blog was right before we found out that my Dad was sick. My life went upside down and sideways for a while after that. At this point however, how far behind I am is keeping me from getting caught up. So I came up with this idea. I am going to give some highlighted bullet points to catch up everyone and some of the bigger things I will blog in more detail for those interested in going back and reading them more fully. (If want to see greater detail go to my "blog archive" on the far right column and click on 2011 and then pick by date. March 2011 is the earliest)
*My Dad was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer April 2011
*We adopted a dog through a Brittany Rescue April 2011
*Isabella and Kaydence turn 1 year old April/June 2011
*Dad's celebration of life party June 5
*Dad died June 8, 2011
*Nick married Kelsey on August 6, 2011
*Girls big birthday party - pirate themed September 2011
*We started homeschooling November 2011
It is hard to lump all those things together but they are the main things of the year. I will be blogging each of them in more detail over the next week possibly with a few more things like camping trips, blueberry picking, random cute things. My Dad's illness and then death affected everything. It has been more difficult and life changing than I ever thought it would be. I think of him every single day and it is hard to look back and only have memories. We don't have a lot of pictures together and I didn't journal very many of our activities together - more just took for granted that they would be there for a long time to come. It sounds like a cleache but live life and enjoy, taking in everything you can and spend as much time as you can with those you love ~ journal, blog, take pics, enjoy as you never know when time and circumstances will change.
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Such a nice surprise- I just checked in on a whim to see if you had gotten back to blogging and I was treated to half an hour of catching up with you and your beautiful family. You have had a lot of ups and downs, and it is wonderful how you take each day and live it with grace and faith, as best as you are able. You're a good mama, grandmama, daughter, wife, woman- just keep on traveling down the road, you're doing great!
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