2009...the year in review

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Well, now that I've shared the past 10 years of my life (or rather, 9 of the 10) it's time again to look back over this past year and review what we've achieved, what we've gained, what we've lost, and what we've learned. I've been trying to decide how I wanted to do this entry this year and I think I'll do the same style I did last year...one pic and 2 or 3 sentences for each month. At least...I hope I can keep it that concise! But you know me and my gift of gab. (and my picture fetish..I can't guarantee just one per month! lol)

So...let's take a look back and see what all has transpired this year.


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~Greg and I rang in the New Year much the same way we did the previous year....friskly, heehee..
~Facebook was new to me and quickly becoming an obsession! I started reconnecting with people I hadn't seen in 20+ years! It was great!
~Things were mostly about school and kids, altho I did spend a lot of time with my Crown Club girls...donating food to our local shelter and making Valentine cards we would take to the nursing homes in February.




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~we started out the month with Trey having twisted his knee.
~We made a trip to Nebraska for my aunt's funeral.
~Molly and I made a trip to Oklahoma City to meet Patrea and her family for a weekend with Susan! OMG!! Just the girlie weekend I think we had all been needing!!




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~March started out broken...my truck broke, and Trey suffered his first heartbreak.
~Molly's long term crush became her boyfriend, but it only lasted a week or so before they became "friends" again. (she still crushes on him to this day tho!)
~My sister from Phoenix came to visit and we had all our family together!
and all that was in the first week of the month.
We also had things like....
~my mother joined Facebook, and can now say things she shouldn't online for the world to see
~I celebrated my 42nd birthday,first by spending a weekend with Trey alone, then by spending the actual day with Molly and she got glasses.
~we started looking for a puppy for me





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~Easter Brunch at Mom's. Greg got to go with me.
~had to pull together a community coffee that I didn't know I was in charge of til the last minute.
~Greg had to have major heart tests done, including being shocked by the paddles, which stopped his heart, and having to be resucistated. All that proved that getting a pacemaker (which had been reccomended for years) would only kill him, stopping his heart when it shocked rather than regulating it. It also cracked his back molar in half and he had to have it pulled.
~I sang for my mom at her church as a bday gift, and we celebrated her's and Jeanette's bdays afterwards.


*the birthday girls


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It was a VERY busy month:
~the first few days of the month were spent in Nashville at the Junior Auxiliary convention.
~Mother's Day Weekend started off with tornados, but we waited them out at the airport. I was rewarded the next morning (actual Mother's Day) with breakfast in bed.


~we finally found a puppy for me, and she was ready to come live with us by month's end.


~we celebrated Matthew's 11th birthday


~we made the decision to let Matt move to Glenwood at the end of summer and go to school with Trey.

~Jeanette gave birth to my wonderful nephew Max!


~I finished up another school year.



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~It was JuPoThiMo month: a month of posting positive thoughts about yourself. Tougher than I thought it would be.
~a new friendship began with a woman I'd known from church, but had never been particularly close to. Now we great friends and do girl things together regularly.
~Molly went off to Shreveport for 5 days of church camp. She accepted Jesus into her heart while she was there.
~Trey went off to Eastern TN for a week of church camp, and wound up in the ER for the first of what would be 5 shoulder dislocations. Yes...a mother's worst nightmare, that midnight call saying your son, who is in a different state hundreds of miles of way, has been taken to the hospital. Luckily he was in good hands.
~Matt got to spend that week home with me while the other 2 were gone.
~I traded my '02 Trailblazer in for an '08 Durango.



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Another BUSY month
~Alex turned 19.
~I taught summer school for the first time.
~We set off for a trip to Nebraska for a family reunion. We stopped in Kansas first, to see Trea and her family.


~Trey's shoulder popped out of socket again while in the motel pool in Kansas and we had to make another trip to the ER.
~We made it to Nebraska and had a wonderful time there. The zoo, a parade, a small town's annual celebration day, time at the park with family we hadn't seen in years, a trip to the farm and corn picking...yes, a wonderful trip.


~another family celebration...my brother's birthday, and the Nebraska cousins we stay with were there, passing through on their way to Louisina.

*baby Max was 2 months old

~my Phoenix sister's grandbaby was born

*Baby Raegan

~and we celebrated Greg's 45th birthday.


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~Molly was baptized


~and we celebrated her 10th birthday with a Mommy & Me day in Ttown--lunch at the Olive Garden and a movie


~Watermelon Festival was spent entertaining all the politicians from every level from city, county, district, state, and national!
~we had the first of Trey's orthopedic surgeon visits.
~The annual family Birthday Bash for all those celebrating August bdays


~I was told that I had no relationship with my oldest child. and he agreed.
~I moved my other son to his dad's house....worried that I would now also lose my relationship with him, but knowing it was a move he needed to make.
~A new school year started. Trey:10th grade, Matthew:6th grade (and in his new school)

and Molly started at a new campus as well, where she has to wear a uniform now.


~I ended the month in Memphis at a JA meeting, and spending time with my Memphis friends! A great way to end a stressful month!


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~Maggie got her first haircut


~I spent most of the month adapting to the ever changing curriculum and schedules at school.
~JA kept me busy as Public Relations Chairman with our Annual Spaghetti Supper.
~Greg wound up in the ER for severe dehydration from a virus.
~I was working on or heading up 5 different fund raisers at basically the same time.
~I was once again (actually twice again this month) on the local talk show on tv. I think that made 6 times this year.


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~Greg started talking marriage again...more seriously this time.
~I was finally settled back into the church choir.
~I missed my 20th college reunion, even tho it was only 40 miles away, because I didn't have the money to pay for the luncheon.
~I did get to go with my sisters to their 20th high school reunion tho.


~We celebrated Trey's 16th birthday while Shelli (my Phoenix sis) was in town and he got his official driver's license.




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~Trey got a girlfriend, Matt got a basset hound, and Molly had a sleepover.
~I got to spend time with my non-biological grandparents whom I hadn't seen in several years.


~it was another trip to the ER for Trey and his shoulder, the night before Thanksgiving.
~annual Thanksgiving brunch went off as usual.
~we took pics for Christmas cards

*not the one we used

~I put up my Christmas decorations the day before Thanksgiving...for the first time ever! Last year it was the day after T-giving..but before that, never til Dec 1st!


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a busy month that I cannot believe is over...
I did not begin the Christmas season is a holiday mood. I'm usually all about the Christmas season, but this year it took me most of the month to find that spirit.
~our tree was broken and pitiful, and I didn't even put out all the decor I usually do.
~Maggie went into heat right before I was going to get her spade.
~Molly had her first school dance and we had to find just the right dress.


~Trey killed his first deer


~Trey had his shoulder surgery the first day of Christmas break.
~Maggie got SHAVED by the groomer.
~Christmas Eve was spent at Greg's house making chocolate bacon, then coming home and opening gifts.
~Christmas Day brought much happiness with Santa's packages, and then gifts from Greg that night after preparing the brisket to take to my mom's the next day.
~Dec 26th was our family Christmas celebration.



Overall....



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