The year 2012 is coming to end and what a year it has been! I am hoping for a new year filled with good surprise and adventures.
We started 2012 out with intense marriage counseling. We left Cadence with my parents for a week while Josh and I were able to just do life together for a week in Muncie and start with marriage counseling. Unfortunately January and Febuary were filled with lots of hurts and tears, but there was a light at the end of the tunnel. We were able to visit NJ in March where we got to take Cadence to the ER for the second time that year. This was the beginning of us finding out that he has asthma and we were going to have some long months ahead of us. April began with finding out Josh's mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. Having to watch her go through surgeries and chemo from long distance was hard on all of us.
In May, Josh and I got to go to Northern Ireland for two weeks with the Campus House. This trip was amazing. The sites were breathtaking and the people were fantastic and the memories will last for a lifetime. The summer brought lots of traveling, something like 70 hours in the car, family time, retreats, etc. August came around and the life of campus ministry was in full swing once again.
This last semester was tough on us. Feeling tired and frustrated, we had started wondering if it was time to leave the CH and do another kind of ministry. We thought we were thinking a year or so ahead but in November, the Board made that decision for us by letting Josh go unexpectedly. Thus we ended our year in NJ with family for Christmas and a time to think and pray about our future.
So it's kind of funny to read all of this and people might just think we have had a very depressing year and yeah it has been a rough year of changes and frustrations, but really it has been a great year as well. Josh and I are doing great as a couple, it is refreshing to think about how i am truly married to my best friend. And since we are doing well on the marriage front, it's helping with our parenting as well.
April 30th brought me a niece, Leia!! In October, Michele was done with chemo and is on her way (with a couple other surgeries) to being fully cancer free. We are blessed with a little boy who makes us laugh every day. We have family and friends that have taken care of us and loved on us these last eights weeks and really the whole year.
So what about 2013? Yeah I have wondered that as well. We have no idea what that brings. A new ministry? A new house in a new state? A new family member (don't get excited, nothing yet!)? I have no idea, I would love all of that. Only God knows. I do know that we'll take it one day at a time, together.
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