The business of starting

Whether I'm starting a job, a project, life at a new house, or a new role in life... I feel the same sense of "OHMYWORD!!!!" every single time.

In the past three months, the following has taken place:
1. I started my own AVON business.
2. I started talking to my parents, after over 18 months of not.
3. Thanksgiving.
4. Bruce's due date passes.
5. Christmas.
6. Bruce is born (read: the Heavens opened up...)
7. Post-partum depression and thyroiditis sets in.
8. New Years.
9. Steve is (officially) laid-off from his job.
10. We move back to my in-laws' house.
11. I start pumping (you know what I'm referring to).
12. We take our first mini-vacation to Cannon Beach, OR.
13. I go back to work, at just 6 weeks post-partum.
14. Bruce is dedicated.

One thing changes... I'm able to breathe... and then another thing changes and *wham*. Start all over.

In the midst of all this starting and stopping and coming and going, I almost forgot one important thing: to enjoy. It is simply amazing to think that I have a son. I can sit and enjoy his little smiles, gurgles, and spit bubbles for hours on end. It is wonderful knowing that we have a place to live, a family to help take care of us, and an abundance of crazy cats (7 in all, people) to keep us entertained.

My plans for this blog? To use this as a way to keep my memories of this amazing time alive. Bruce will want to know what his life was like in these early days/weeks/months/years, and I plan to tell him this:

You enjoyed.