I can’t believe its already September! Let alone September 10th. It seems like only yesterday we brought Alexa home from the hospital & I was enjoying my first maternity leave as well as my first experience at being a mom. I can’t help but remember feeling like life as I knew it could not possibly get any better than it was during those moments. That should have been my first clue that life would not only change drastically, but that the next 2 years would inevitably have their trials unlike I could have ever imagined.
This week Monday marked not only my last “employed labor day” holiday but also the 2 year anniversary of my Father’s death. I heard somewhere that it can only get easier. I’m not sure I believe that but I keep hoping its true. It could be due to the fact that I have major pregnancy mood swings which make me cry at even the tiniest bit of a sappy commercial, let alone truly emotional moments in life, but either way every little thing reminds me of my Dad & I end up tearing up in no time. For instance, our church denomination recently held their Synod. As I was reading our church newsletter I noticed it held a report of the general daily happenings at Synod. No big deal right? Most people even find these things a tad bit uninteresting. I however found myself in tears. Why? Simply because it was at the last Synod, a mere 3 years ago, when my husband & I brought my mom to meet up with my Dad at the Synod held in Chicago on our way to family vacation. It was also there that Dad had been appointed to a committee to research the Federal Vision. The report I found myself tearing up over? A report merely mentioning what that committee had figured out/determined.
This week I find myself emotional enough as is with the 6th being the date Dad passed away, to the 7th being Micah’s birthday, to the 8th being when his grandpa also passed away…let alone due to the fact that it was my final week working at Interstates. I have been working there for the past almost 4 years and it truly become a sort of home for me. That place has seen me through some major ups & downs – from the purchase of our first real home (not counting the trailer in Ames) to the birth of our first child, to the death of my father, to the soon to be birth of our second child. It has truly been a great place to work & I will miss going there each day.
On the other hand, I’m excited to be home each day with Alexa & with the new baby once this child makes its arrival into the world. So far in the my first few hours at home I have managed to rearrange Alexa’s room & clean up most of the toys on the main level of the house. Now if I can get the rest of my 2 page to-do list done before November I’ll be thrilled :)!
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