closing the decade
31 Dec 2009 Leave a Comment
in Life Stuff
Wow, 2010 is just hours away…thinking back over the last 1o years, I can’t believe all that has happened.
- 2000 Steve and I were married. We felt the loss of our first child through miscarriage, a heartbreaking moment that surprisingly brought us closer together. I believe it was in that event that we were strengthened for what our life together would bring, and subsequently what this last decade looked like.
- 2001, Logan was born, a beautiful little baby with blonde hair and blue eyes. We moved to a new church, in Hamilton. Steve finished off another degree.
- 2002, there was my car accident that I never should have survived, while 7 months pregnant. The scary moments of hearing that Abby had cysts on her brain, and feeling the relief of hearing that they were resolving on their own. September we saw our beautiful daughter brown eyed girl enter the world.
- 2003 brought the reality of autism into our life. with Logan’s diagnosis. We moved to another church again, this time in Meaford. It also brought questions about Abby’s development.
- 2004 autism was again brought into our life, this time in our daughter. Just a few months later we lost Steve’s father. A difficult season if our lives to say the least. We questioned many things, but saw God’s hand on our lives so rested in that knowledge, sometimes clinging to it with all our might.
- 2005, we celebrated our fifth anniversary by moving into our first home. Steve was again in school.
- 2006 we welcomed Justus into our home…filled with mixed feelings. We started off as foster parents, but quickly saw that he needed a more permanent home. So we were named his legal guardians. Steve had his first book published.
- 2007 An awesome honeymoon on a cruise through the Mediterranean. It brought another degree for Steve, graduating the same day we agreed to take Emma into our home. We also welcomed our first service dog Milo into our lives.
- 2008 another child, only this time much more complicated than the others, but in July we got the call that we would be legal guardians of Faith and she would be arriving that next week. We also saw Milo leave our home, he just wasn’t suitable as a service dog. Great as a pet, but not to the standards of a service dog.
- 2009 I wrote my GED, passing in the top 10%. In April we lost Steve’s mom to cancer. I was accepted into university and began my studies in July. Steve was accepted into a doctoral program. Halo arrived in our home, an answer to prayer and the best thing that ever happened to Logan. Abby went into short term residential treatment.
So much to go through in just 10 short years and yet here we are, stronger than ever. A home full of love, a church family who are welcoming of our crazy antics, and 10 years full of God’s blessings and provision. I pray that the next 10 years will be a little calmer in our life, but it seems that craziness follows us around, so I pray that God would bestow on us all that we need in order to navigate the roads of our lives.
I pray that God would bless you all in 2010. Here’s to the start of another decade.
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