2013... what a year it has been. I was pretty good about keeping my goals for 2013, mainly, I got hired as a postpartum nurse (dream job) and Jim and I sold our first home and moved into our dream home! If you want to read about my previous year, here's the link to my last year's review. :) http://janinapodzius.blogspot.com/2013/01/2012-in-review-2013-hopes.html
The highlights of our year:
Jim and I had been talking about growing our family and when would be the best time to start trying. I was still breastfeeding Abigail and not having a period, so when my birth control pill prescription ran out, I just never renewed it and thought whenever God decided to bless us with another baby then so be it. Well, I guess He wanted us to have 2 kids a little sooner than we thought, because just weeks after I finished my last pill, we found out we were pregnant again! I am so thankful that we've had 2 easy pregnancies- with Abigail and now Katherine. Now working in postpartum and having some antepartum patients on the unit, I realize I take so many things like a healthy pregnancy for granted. We ended up finding out we were pregnancy just shortly before Abigail's 1st birthday and announced it to our friends then. :)
I love the memories we created and the family/friends we got to visit with the trips we took to the Philippines, Chicago and Michigan this year. I don't know if we'll have any big trips in 2014... maybe Washington to visit some of my family for the holidays? We'll see. :)
Abigail turned 1 year old on May 8th and now she is almost 20 months old and a full-fledged toddler saying no to everything! We took away her bottles completely around 17 months and moved her to a toddler bed around 18 months. Lots of changes for our sweet little girl. Next on the list is potty training, but we are not going to stress about it for now. Abigail tells us sometimes when she has pee-pee or poo-poo in her diaper and runs to the potty and she has gone several times now in the potty, but we found that if we force it, we are just scaring her away from the potty and she is reluctant to even sit on it. So potty training will definitely be happening in 2014 for Abigail. Our big girl!
Selling our first home was bittersweet. We met with our realtor in January, put it on the market in March and sold it in May. So many memories there, including actually getting married inside our home, seeing our first house as newlyweds transform into a warm family home and Abigail's first 11.5 months of life were brought up in that home. We had great neighbors and lots of memories there. But our new home in Marley Park is perfect for us and where we plan our raising our family for at least the next 20 years.
Getting hired and starting my new job on postpartum in September was amazing. I really do feel so lucky to have a job I actually enjoy now! My new floor is much more enjoyable and for the most part, less busy and stressful. I do miss my old co-workers though. I know it'll just take time for me to develop new friendships on my new floor. It's nice working with my mom now too! I just think about how far I've come in my nursing journey so far and I actually feel proud of myself (which doesn't happen often). From my first nursing job in an all male prison facility (not joking!) to working on a high-stress and high-paced med-surg floor to now working with mommies and babies (where I knew my nursing passion has always been), it is just wonderful to me. Of course I would still rather be at home with my family full-time if I had the choice and we had the income to support that, but having a job I actually enjoy and knowing I am contributing and supporting us financially makes me proud too. I know I still need to go back to school eventually in the next few years, but I think we will have a lot on our plate this year learning to live life with a new baby and toddler that school will probably go on the back burner until at least 2015, unless we can somehow come up with the finances and time (I think I will have to go down to working part-time if I decided to go back to school to keep my sanity lol).
My dad has also been gone working in Washington for most of the year. He finally came home for good just a few days before Christmas and I am so glad he is home. :)
I also overcame my fear and started teaching Zumba classes! I've always loved dance, but to be the one in front of the class instead of just participating in it was a big accomplishment for me. But eventually, with a new nursing job and growing a baby inside of me, it got to be too much so I stopped teaching but I'm glad I did it for 6 months. :) Now my ZIN membership for the past 2 years wasn't a total waste lol.
2014- I have so much to look forward to this year!!! Starting with the birth of our daughter, Katherine. Seriously any day now. I still cannot believe I will be a mom of 2 little girls and that we will be a family of 4 (plus Jasper)! I'm also looking forward to hopefully switching to day shift after I return from maternity leave. I've been working nights for over 2 years now and I am done with it. The extra pay and no traffic sure are nice, but being able to be home every night to put my kids to bed and sleep next to my husband will be wonderful. I am also looking forward to all the home renovations we plan on doing! We have our annual Podzius family vacation in the summer, and it's always very relaxing and memorable. I'm excited to see where we'll be going this year.
2014 goals? Well definitely strive to trust and believe in God's promises more. I am such a worry wart but I think if I truly put my faith in Him, my burdens would feel lifted from me, but I'm still here anxious about everything. I'm glad I have Jim to balance me out, but I need to rely less on my husband to fulfill me and more on God. I plan on reading more books to help me become a better wife/mother especially during my late night feeds with Katherine. Finally learn how to use my craft cutter machine and camera. Oh, and the one that's probably on everyone's new year resolution list- get in shape! I think I was in the best shape of my life in 2013 before I got pregnant again, and now I am 50lbs heavier with this pregnancy. I am looking forward to losing the extra weight.
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