Facebook has a new notification box I just saw on the right hand side of the screen. It is laced with a spread that reads "On this day in 2010." And with that, it tells you what your status was last year on that same day.
When I logged in today it said, "On this day in 2010...Melissa Gresham practiced cartwheels on the grassy knoll during my run tonight. Perhaps I'll work it up to getting my backhandspring back. Or perhaps I will just break my back.”
I can't believe I was doing that just a simple year ago.
Can you imagine me doing a backhandspring now, or even a CARTWHEEL? Gosh, how much things change in just a year. All I have now are visions of myself panting for breath while WALKING up the slightest hill. Yes, the time has come for the last trimester.
What else was I doing a year ago?
We had just gotten back from our vacation in the Outer Banks I believe -- that lovely stay we endured at the Oasis Suites with Phillip and Carrie, and later were joined by John and Anna & Co. We all had our fair share of playing spades and drinking yuengling beer as I recall, and spent some time on the treadmill breaking sweats just before hitting the sparkling, bare pool. We bowled and ate dinner out and shopped. And some of us were, to some extent, more "free" than we are today.
Fast forward a year: I'm about to have a baby. Phillip and Carrie are married and making their home a nest for Phillip's two young boys. Mariah completed her first year of middle school, Daniel graduated college, and Tiffany got her driver's license. What a year will do and how it can bring such excitement.
As I ponder on this past year I wonder what I have done, what I have accomplished... How has this year changed or shaped me? Did I backslide? Did I draw closer to the Lord? I only hope to say that I have.
We planted our first garden with Pop's MAJOR help. Cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, and beans. Needless to say the tomatoes didn't turn out the best but the cucumbers were awesome! Also needless to say, with my pregnancy and Carrie getting married, we slacked off with its upkeep. It is a bit of a jungle at the moment needing some serious weeding. I suppose we are gearing up for fall now and the garden is on it's way to witherdom anyway.
I started writing for Manassas Patch, a local online newsletter, and managed to make enough in just a few short months to pay off our dining room table and buy some other small things I've been wanting like a replacement iPod and a customized frame for our wedding photo. Woohoo! (It's the little things, I tell ya.)
Mom and Pop have seemed to (mostly) get their upstairs room cleaned out - and declutterfy, if you will, a smidge starting with the storage areas, which I must say are fairly well organized now. They just picked a company to close in their porch and are working out the details to get it started. Let's hope it's done by NEXT year. ;)
Isaac bought a new car - Dodge Charger. His first American car. Need we say more?
Our condo fees went up like $25 a month. Go freakin' fig.
Pop is turning 60.
Casey Anthony walks free (for the most part).
Obama allows for more disaster in America.
Gas goes up nearly a dollar per gallon.
Lots of amazing family stuff happening while somehow the economy seems to be slowly going down the drain. Amidst it though, I feel peace. Peace among my family and in our homes - a comfort in reliance and stability.
I wonder what next year will bring...
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