Holidays

So Long, 2015

IMG_7464Since I didn’t get around to posting about our Christmas right after the holiday, I thought I’d combine it with a post for New Year’s Eve. And hey, I got to it before the year actually ended, so that’s pretty good!

We kept Prim’s first Christmas fairly minimal, since she really doesn’t need a whole lot toy-wise these days and we lack a permanent residence at the moment. Santa ended up bringing her some blocks and books and Green Toys, along with a few other wooden toys, some stacking cups and a cold teether.

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I was most excited about Prim getting The Bumper Book, which is a book from my mom’s childhood that she read to us when we were kids and is now out of print. Santa must have some tricks up his sleeve since he was able to find it! 😉

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Um, and yes, baby moccasins may have been a “practical” item added to Prim’s stocking. (I mean, they are bigger sizes for when she actually starts walking, so they’re kind of necessary, right?)IMG_7506 IMG_7503

It was a pretty awesome day; and overall, a pretty amazing year. 2015 was the strangest combination of really great things, paired with really terrible things.

In reminiscing over the past year (as one does on New Year’s Eve), here’s what stuck out:

  • A babymoon trip to New Orleans in January with KC, which included both some of the most delicious food and some of the coldest weather the city had ever experienced.
  • A work trip to NY in February, without a coat that zipped over my big, pregnant belly (and it was 6° when I arrived). Luckily a local — and also pregnant — friend of mine let me borrow an extra one she had lying around!
  • The arrival of the sweetest tiny human imaginable in May.
  • Followed by the loss of close to a half-gallon of blood after we brought her home (mine, not hers, thank goodness), which prompted a trip in an ambulance to the ER and a procedure that was worse than labor.
  • Savoring those sweet first weeks home with baby, only to find out we were being evicted when she was only 2 months old.
  • Moving in with in-laws (on-site babysitting and free rent! Yes please.)
  • Going back to work, which is somehow both a break from the everyday of having a baby, and also terribly, terribly hard.

There are so many big, amazing things already in the works for 2016, and I can’t wait to talk all about them on the blog. For now, I’m focusing on the present and thinking long and hard about my goals for the new year. (Post on that coming up!)

Let’s do this, 2016. I’m ready for you.