Ending of THAT year!

Is so glad to be done with last semester and last year in general. Between the rigorous class I took (said to be the worst one there is... even the seniors in my class dumped half their workloads to try to cope with this particularly demanding course) and unavoidable life events, it was rough to say the least.

I know that I am a perfectionist and take longer to do my work usually, but this was ridiculous. My typical week was minus 1-2 nights sleep (a bad week I would go as many as 3-4 especially around midterms), the nights that included sleep were between 2-4 hours (6 on a REALLY good night), and 40-60 hours were spent on that one class alone (not including my other course I was taking on Short Stories or time I needed for the rest of life).

Then, to add to it all, we started the school year with Geoff's motorcycle accident (which we are beyond blessed at how God protected him even on the freeway) and a continuous weekly catastrophe would follow for the remainder of the semester. Wednesdays were particularly the worst, though not singular to that day we had both kids (in a two week time frame) with brain injury watches (through the night of course), auto problems with the new van we had JUST gotten the end of July, and a myriad of other issues that continued to make life just that much more difficult. And after ending both our semesters on Dec 18th, we spiraled into the Christmas holiday. Spent 4 wonderful days with family, celebrating and then rushed back home to start packing for our immanent move. Just over 3 years at the last place, it was time to move on for a number of reasons. Prayerfully we searched, fearing we were not going to find something in time, God brought the perfect place to us at just the right time. We are still settling, but I am grateful every day for our beautiful new home that I feel so blessed to be in with a great landlord to boot!

All that to say... I am SO glad to be in 2011. :) Last year was a big year of change for us, and despite all that ranting, it was a necessary year. However, I am looking forward to all this year has to offer and can't wait to see what happens...