2016 Review

2016 Reflections

10 Highlights

My baby shower
The birth of Evangeline Jane
Getting a drill for Christmas after (strongly) hinting about it for months
Winning big at the local Harvest Fair
Buying a new house
Renovating our crapshack and our "Painting Party"
Gilmore Girls Revival Weekend with my sisters
The birth of my first nephew, Elias
Vanessa getting engaged
Baby accessories. Shoes, booties, headbands, baby bikini's. I love all of it.
10 Disappointments
Not being able to breastfeed
After birth recovery time and Postpartum Depression
Granny dying 4 days before Eve was born and not getting to tell her that we had planned to name her first great grandchild after her.
Discovering the most awesome paint trim painting tool ever - when we were nearly done all our painting and renovations.
Not being well enough to fully enjoy our houseboat vacation this summer.
Fuller House
When the house cleaner I hired didn't show up and Arron and I had to clean our new house until late in the evening and I was so pregnant and sad.
Evie's being sick through her first Christmas.
A salt-dough electricity conductor experiment I worked hard on that didn't work.
"Me Before You" the movie. Didn't live up to the book in the least.

3 Game Changers
Having a baby
Buying a new house
Having a doula. Best money we ever spent.

3 Things I Focused onBaby
House renovations
Being creative & doing a lot of crafting projects

 3 Things I forgot

To make my famous "Bacon Roses" for Mitch for Christmas
My pillow at the hospital
To show up on a week I was scheduled to speak at Chapel. I was all prepared and ready to go, I just forgot to actually go.