Once again I have been slacking! Each time I vow to be better at keeping up with it...so here goes try number one million and something!! Its been a busy year in the Williford household starting with the completion of what seemed like a nearly endless 8 month process of the short sale of our home in Florida. Bittersweet it was in every way...glad to be rid of a house that was creating so much emotional and mental exhaustion for us but a house at the same time was where our new family got its start, a house we called ours, that we took pride in. From the day in Febuary that we signed the papers we have just temporarily pushed it out of our heads or at least to the back of our minds where it won't wear us down anymore knowing full well that as much as it is most likely completely over that the banks still have another 5 years to pursue us for the amount not covered by the short sale. Until that day comes why think about it right, especially if we can't control it?? So onto challenge #2 of 2010 which happened to involve our living situation yet once again! So in April we learned that the house we were renting here at our new duty station since September of 2009, the same house we had been paying our rent on time monthly was going into foreclosure because the hoity toity bitch (forgive my lack of lady like language) that owned it had decided to just not pay her mortgage for most likely the entire time we had been under lease with her. What a stressful freakin mess that ultimately led to us ironically finding a house that size wise and comfort wise suits our family much better. We moved in June to the new house and immediately threw a party to celebrate our little man's second birthday! It was a great party, a lot larger than initially intended and/or expected, but successful thanks in part to our great friends we have made in the area and a pinata and the purchse of a mini bounce house for the kids (which since has been a big hit and come in handy on several other occasions). Our little man turned two going on six. What a little attitude he has developed and he is going through the terrible twos although he really does have a great personality. It may be biased to say but he is a very likeable kid overall. With Shane and I in dealing with Cam, due to his age and stage, it is a constant power struggle between us and him. He is as stubborn as they come. We get comments frequently about how well he talks for his age from people we know and complete strangers. He is a smart boy. He LOVES animals, farm animals in particular. He has had several opportunites to interact with animals this year including one of his little girlfriend's birthday parties back in September. She had had a farm animal theme complete with real animals for the kids to look at and touch. That is where Cameron had his first horseback riding experience on a honey brown horse named Sunny. He has not forgotten it yet. Its hard to believe how big he is getting. Never has it become so clear to me just how much of a big boy he is becoming as it has in the past few weeks. The biggest part of our year has been spent waiting and preparing for the arrival of our little girl. We found out we were expecting our second child in April. An ultrasound at 16 weeks was the first time we were told she was a girl. We decided to name her Caroline Rosemary...Caroline was a name both of us were drawn to looking through list upon list of girls names and later we realized it was a family name on the Williford side of the family...RoseMary being the combination of mine and Shane's grandmothers' first names. They both meant a lot to us and have unfortunately passed on. So finally after another great pregnancy (I say great despite being closely monitored again and taking weekly shots of progesterone from weeks 26-34 due to a history of preterm labor with my first pregnancy because I had no morning sickness again and carried all belly again and just felt pretty good in general) I went into active labor on the afternoon of December 23rd and finally decided to go to the hospital once my contractions became 6 minutes apart. Ironic enough the week before I had had a dream that my baby was born on December 24th and thought nothing of it quickly dismissing it until I delivered her after about 8 hrs of labor at 1237 am on December 24th. She weighed 7 lbs 9 oz and measured 19 inches in length. She was beautiful and of course it was love at first site all over again! And despite the fact that I had been stressing endlessly about how I wasn't really crazy about the idea of having a Christmas baby through my entire pregnancy I now feel it couldn't have been a more perfect date for her to be born...she is truly the best Christmas gift ever!! All we need to do is look at it from a more open minded, more creative perspective. We spent all day Christmas Eve and Christmas day in the hospital...despite our doctors' efforts to discharge us on Christmas Day morning, she unfortunately lost a little too much weight in her first 24 hours leading to us having to stay an extra night in the hospital. We finally came home on the 26th during a snow storm that dumped about 8 inches on us...something that is kind of rare for this area. We celebrated Christmas with my mother in law and her boyfriend on the morning of the 27th. My Sweet Caroline is here now and after not being home with my little man for three or four days and seeing only her during that time he looks so much bigger physically and older to me now. I just CAN NOT believe how fast time goes...it leaves me breathless. But nevertheless, as many bittersweet feelings as life can leave you with, each day this year it has become more and more apparent to me how truly greatful I should and do feel for every little thing I am blessed with!! I have never felt more blessed than I do now as 2010 comes to an end. Happy New Year!
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