Wow. I can hardly believe that another year has gone by. In years past I used to make a huge deal over the new year, I felt like it was one of the largest events of the year. As I've grown older, I take a simpler approach to it, I feel. It is just another day with another number. New beginnings don't have to start on January 1 of a new year. They can begin today. Tomorrow. Yesterday, last week or months ago. I feel like 2015 has been low key, yet so busy. Here's to 2015 and all that 2016 holds!
January
Apparently Facebook was really boring for me in January. Nothing but a shared Foster Care link! :)
February
- 7th: NCT Hike
- 28th: Mona had a play date with a clone 10x her size.
Ice Skating at Rosa Park Circle
March
- 7th: Project install safety gates for foster care licensing
- 3.14.15: ULTIMATE PIE DAY party. With Pi, Pie and .... White Chili and friends
- 17th: Business Professional day for office pics
- 23rd: Friend's Baby shower for her Miracle Baby
- 29th: Saw Cinderella in theater with my sisters
- 31st: ADOPTED my baby sister!
April
- Dad's health
- 4th: NCT hike with Hollers followed by Pizza!
- 11th: NCT hike
- 12th: PHANTOM OF THE OPERA with my older sister
- 14th: NCT hike
- 18th: Kayaking with Chelsea; fell in the river. Whoops.
- 25th: Nordhouse with Hollers and traveling M-22 to Traverse City
- 29th: 3.43 miles on the NCT with my lil trooper of a pup
May
- 4th: Dad's surgery
- 8th: Got a hammock!
- 23rd: Camping in my own back yard
- 24th: Road trip to Petoskey with Hollers
June
- 6th: Kayaking with Ashlee and Michele
- 13th: B-93 Birthday bash with besties
July
- 4th: Holiday with besties up on the Lake
- 8th Provisional foster license open
- 16th: Christmas in July Cards
- 27th: Sewed a little lamb for a co-worker
August
- 1st: COLOR RUN!
- 5th: First time Rock Climbing
- 7th-9th: Canada Wonderland with two of my besties
- 10th: HAPPY BIRTHDAY to ME!
- 12th made homemade Fettuccine Carbonara
- 15th: Completed PRIDE 5, 7 and 8 for Foster Care licensing
- 18th - 20th: Dog sitting
- 20th: Prepping cloth to make burp clothes for future littles
- 23rd: Hiking the NCT
- 24th: "Deal Newly Licensed Foster Parent
- 28th - 30th: Camping Ludington With Ashlee
September
- 3rd: call for placement; I accepted a beautiful 8 month old
- Started chiropractic care
- 17th: Lady A concert with my friend Ashlee!
- 19th: Irish Music Festival with the family!
- 23rd: baby's first day of daycare
- 27th: visited JodyAnn at WAR Rockford
- 30th: Baby Squidgey the binky thief
October
- 3rd: visited Aunt Brittany and ate at Boatwerks for the first time
- 11th: Orchard with my cousin and our littles
- 17th: Hockey game with my family; little sister sang the National Anthem with her school choir
- 21st: Baby crawled up the entire flight of stairs
- 25th: ZOO GOES BOO with my cousin and our littles
- 31st: caught up with an old friend and saw her beautiful new home
November
- 3rd: Started to Cloth Diaper
- 16th: Went to Frankenmuth Michigan for the first time with a bestie; got a tank of gas for $1.15 [thank you Wesco Rewards!]
- 19th: Fortune cookie: "You will succeed in whatever calling you adopt"
Prepped 11 dozen cookies for my Church's bake sale; made over 15 dozen total
- 21st: Road Trip to Traverse City Michigan with my cousin and her little to see another cousin. Drove home in a really bad snow storm.
- 25th: Christmas Tree up and gated
- 26th: Baby's first Thanksgiving
- 27th: Big BF splurge: Cloth Diapers
- 29th: LL Thanksgiving with friends
December
- 3rd: Carol the Singer arrived [got my first sewing machine!]
- 4th: Rockford Christmas Lighting Ceremony
- 5th: The Piano Guys concert with my older sister
- 9th: Puppy (#babysquidgey) turned 2!
- 18th: horrible ice and snow
- 22nd: prepped over 80 Christmas cards to mail; not mailed until the New Year
- 23rd: was gifted a $1 chicken and waffle from the restaurant next door to work
- 24th: sewed myself a skirt for Christmas
- 25th: Baby's first Christmas and my first Christmas as a momma
