And what a year it has been.
A year of change. Of blessing. Of tough decisions. Of love. Of tears. Of life.
We added a new sweet baby girl to our family. We learned of her existence in April, thought she was a boy until July, and once we found out "he" was a "she", we rejoiced in our upcoming re-use of all of Olive's clothes/toys/baby gear. She -- Delia Lyn -- arrived two weeks early on Thanksgiving Day, and we've been loving her ever since. Her birth will have its own, more complete, blog post.
We have decided to move to Minnesota for my job at the end of my maternity leave. That decision brings the bitter promise of sad goodbyes here in Virginia, and I'm dreading the day we embark on our next chapter of life 1,000 miles away from my parents and Olive and Delia's grandparents. I'm so excited to be close to Ryan's family and to the friends that we've missed so much while we've been out here -- but it will be very hard to leave.
We sold our first house -- a house that we loved, a house that we brought our first child home to, the home that held us as we became three. And then four. In the end, the whole thing was really better than we hoped. It was a short time period, and we broke even. Not bad for two and a half years.
I can't think of anything else that needs recapped at the moment. Long nights with a baby will hopefully provide more opportunity to blog. Dedication will hopefully provide the discipline to blog more than once a year. Not too tough to beat last year's entries, eh?
