HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! I hope that everyone has the happiest and most prosperous year to come! I am definetely rooting for the happiness part! It seems life has been such a roller coaster that it would be nice for it to even out and just be a calm year. NO sickenesses to deal with, no hospitals or deaths, just a quiet boring year is what I want.
I look back on 2006 and realize that we started out the year in a hospital, we dealt with our daughter being sick for the month of January, hubby losing his job over our daughter being in and out of the hospital so much, a pretty quiet couple of months, then finding out my grandma was going to die and then losing her in November. Of course there is my best friend who was on bed rest and then had the baby in February and her being there for almost 3 months. So I spent a good portion of my year going to a hospital or in a hospice house, 6 almost 7 months of all that! Its been a crazy year that is for sure. Now dealing with my grandparents estate has been a whole new stress level on the family. I think my whole family wishes we could rid my aunt of her horrible husband. There is not one of us that likes him but his wife and that is not saying much since she does not have any taste! He has been calling and badgering my aunt about money and she is sick of it, considering it should not be him talking about it, but his wife. My grandparents were very clear in the fact that it was to be dealt with between their children and the spouses were to stay out of it! But he has yet to respect that wish and has been badgering my aunt, who is not even the executor of the estate! Yet, when he does talk to my dad he does not say a thing about money, does not ask one question about it. He does not argue one point when talking to my dad. Luckily my dad is not a pushover and will put him in his place.
I finally got a chance to spend a little time with my best friend the other night. She wanted to borrow some of my scrapbooking stuff so I took it to her and got to spend a little time with her and the baby. Cecilia has gotten so big!! I cannot believe that she will be 1 next month. It seems like just the other day that she was in the hospital fighting for her life. Now she is a growing baby that is just really progressing beautifully. She is still tiny, all 14 lbs of her, but she is rolling around and is starting to scoot along the floor, so I am sure she will be crawling before too long.
There are so many things I reflect on from the past year and realize what a crazy one it was. I could have lost my daughter to an infection, had she not been taken such good care of, the chances were high that we could have lost her. I could have also lost my best friend, the baby was such a risk to her life, she was on so many meds, and had she not been monitored so closely, and had such a good team of doctors that we could have lost her also. There is also the baby, Cecilia was such a fighter! There were a few times that things were not looking so good for her, but she is here and the sweetest little princess! So, I guess there are so many things to be thankful for also. I still have my daughter, best friend and her princess. We are still dealing with the sickness from my daughter, but we are working on that and hopefully will get her back to herself sometime soon. If not from the chiropractor then hopefully the Mayo clinic.
I am sure there are so many other things to mention, I have either not thought about them, or have decided that I do not want to share them with anyone. Though there were all the sad times, there were also a lot of happy. My daughters are really coming around to all the different activities and have excelled in school. My youngest daughter was tested for the gifted program, and though she has not made it yet, I am sure that she will when she is willing to do it. They love cheerleading and Poms, love Girl Scouts, and my older one loves basketball. My youngest loves school and is really starting to improve on his speech, my oldest is doing a little better in school and will hopefully join Boy Scouts before too long. I have enjoyed the children so much more since they have been in school. It is so much less stress on me to teach them and is so much better for them.
Oh, and I did add a word verification to my comments thing. I keep getting spam shit. I do not have erectile dysfunction and really do not like to surf porn so all the spam stuff is rather annoying! It does not display info about anyone, its just a deterent to the damn spam. OK, I think I will end this post. Again, I hope that everyone has a great 2007.