Growing in God

Well, we are completely settled into our new condo! We got moved in on January 2, so we have now been living here for close to 3 weeks. I was so excited for this new fresh start, but I didn't fully realize how tough this would be, either. Let me first start off by saying that I do LOVE our new place! It is really nice, really close to a lot of stuff, and is so much easier to take care of and maintain. I am loving it. But at first it took some adjusting. When we first got moved in and I said good-bye to our house, I was very emotional over it. It had really hit hard that I was going to be leaving the place that I grew up in and lived in my entire life, and that I was going to be leaving the place that will always be "My Mom's House". I had a brief meltdown and I cried, I almost felt like I was leaving my Mom behind and part of me behind. And when I got back to the condo, I had a hard time calling it my "home". It did not feel like home at first. It felt...

2016 has come to an end. And all I have to say is that it is about time! 2016 was just a very rough year on me and my whole family. Starting out with watching my Mom be horribly sick and then going from that to watching her die, was the most awful, painful thing for us to go through. And since saying goodbye to her, it has been such a rough journey of learning a new normal and learning to do life without her. It has been incredibly difficult and was not something I had in mind for 2016. But there has been some good things that have happened this year as well. As far as my goals I had last year for myself. The first goal I had was to continue to work to make money so I could be even more independent. And that goal I for sure succeeded in. And in fact, I ended up saying goodbye to my old job as a before and after school child care worker and started a new job as a Preschool Teacher's Assistant at an actual daycare and it is full time instead of part time. I love my job and I am mak...