Let's do this!!!

This post is a little different from last year's.  I can actually say I managed to fulfill my wish for the 2012 quite well.  I maybe even did it too well!  Before, I accomplished two out of five goals.  For 2012, I really wanted to focus on living in the present.  Throughout my life, this has been a challenge.  Also, I new that 2013 would be an exciting year, but that there was no way I wanted to miss a moment of 2012 either. 

Thankfully, I enjoyed most of my pregnancy and felt little need to rush it along.  I was still able to do nearly everything I enjoyed, I felt wonderful, and there were very few challenges.  Of course, the very end was a little tricky, but I'm grateful I was only impatient for a couple weeks out of the entire nine months.

Once Calvin arrived, the clock always seemed to move too quickly.  We have joked that he was born at least a month old already because he's been doing almost everything ahead of schedule, and he's topped the growth charts since birth.  This really forced me to live in the moment.  If I blinked too long, he's outgrown a size of clothes, mastered a couple new developmental tasks, and was being mistaken for twice his age.

Unfortunately,  I was doing so well with living in the moment that I didn't get to enjoy the holiday season enough.  I dragged my feet a bit on celebrating, but we still ended up with some pretty special holidays.  Halloween was a lot of fun, Thanksgiving was more meaningful, and Christmas was more important for all the very best reasons.

This year, we have a lot of big changes coming.  Devin will graduate medical school and start residency--a goal he's been working towards since before we met.  He's also been in medical school for almost the entirety of our marriage.  This may also bring a move for us as well.  Before that, though, we will be separated for four weeks (starting Sunday) while he is on a away rotation.  We've never been apart longer than a week since we've been together.  We will have to adjust to him being gone long hours this fall as well.  My goal this year is to be able to smoothly make the transition and find meaningful ways to spend the time we are apart.  I have a tendency to become anxious about change--even good change.  But, I'd like to be better at working through it this year.  I really think I'm ready to do this!!