A decade in review.

I would like to review the last decade. The whole New Millinum thing. Glad to see at 12:00 on 01-01-2000 the world did not end, nor did all the computers shut down.

I was engaged for the first year and a half of the new decade, I married my co-worker, Spaghetti, on June 16th 2001. It seemed like I was getting so old then! I was only 22!!

Spaghetti and I bought our first place, fixed it up, saved our asses off, and bought a house 2 years later. That was 7 years ago this March. We starting filling the house up with pets. In two years time, we bought Jordan (Thing 1) and then Maggie May soon after. Sophie came soon to keep Maggie company, and so then was Chloe a rescue from being put down to keep Jordan happy. Spaghetti and I had lots of adventures to go on, so we said at least 5 years of marriage before kids!

Spaghetti and I went to Vegas for his birthday, Myan Riveria for our honeymoon, Arizona to visit family and my dearest gradeschool friend, Wisconsin for the Dells, Cedar Point, Ohio for the BIGGEST (at the time) roller coaster in the USA, Michigan for the collage football, and camping in the dunes, and our last big vacation harah was a two part deal for me, I flew to Utah to my first Stampin' Up! convention (2005) and then after a week there I flew up to Washington to meet Spaghetti at the airport, then to drive down to Portland Oregon to see his cousin and wife. The were gettting married the next week. It was a week of sight seeing, putting my feet in the ocean on the other side of the country, and of white water rafting where we did dangerous things and I almost drowned!

The morning we were going to leave for home from Oregon. We decided to start trying for kids. Lucky us that was August 1st 2005, I was pregnant by mid September 2005. Bagel was born to us on June 2nd 2006, I was 28. Not wanting to drag this whole pregnancy thing out, we tried for our second child when Bagel was just 13 months. She was 15 months when she wore the "I'm going to be a big sister" shirt to the Queen and Carrots house.

Weaky was born to us, April 25th 2008. With our family of 4 all set and intact, and having both kids before I was 30 (knocking on 30's door, July 19th) I was happy to be done being pregnant. And seriously looking forward to the life we would have with our family.

It was a decade full of new things. New homes, new lifestyles, new responsibilities.

But this decade was a hard one. I had just come into Spaghetti's life, and he was sad because he had lost his best friend to a medical mishap the year before I met him. And I had lost my Grampa then too.

I would have never guessed that my little sister would be over come by such a unknown muscle disorder. I still have my wonderful sister Frances, but that damn muscle disorder, Dystonia has taken over her voice by now, and she can not speak. She had a 16 hour brain operation that helped her tremendously. (DBS) she isn't twisted and hunched over, but she can barely feed herself, and speach is seldom.

But the losses this decade were a bit harsh.

Aunt Karen to alcohol abuse in the winter of 2006.
My Gramma Alice to a sweet old age of 90, in November 2006
Uncle Jim, Aunt Karen's husband, died of alcohol abuse, and a broken heart July 2008.
Which the loss of Uncle Jim, caused a rip in my mom's family so big. That her retardedly pompous and hateful sister completely turned the other brother Rich against my mom and me. Stating that it was us that caused Uncle Jims death. We haven't spoken to them in over a year. I know it will be forever after the words that were spoken. Now my mom has a broken heart. Bullies.

2009 was shitty. Spaghetti's Gramma passed away suddenly to a brain Aneurysm. On Spaghetti's birthday. February 7th. Then 7 months later Spaghetti's Uncle T went to the hospital with the flu, and died of a brain tumor and melonomia 21 days later. That was a horrible year for the family.

I can only hope that this new decade brings on happiness with those I surround myself with. That I can keep my family, Frances is able to speak some, and I just live and enjoy.

Here's to a new decade. One of promise, health, happiness, time with family, and enjoying my children grow.