So long, 2010…you won’t be missed.
This was a year of great change for me. The year started knowing that I was going to be laid off. Several job opportunities were pursued; one of which took us to extreme northwest Washington state. But that, along with every other potential position, fell through.
I was laid off at the end of May, and we came to grips with moving back home to Michigan as our best option. We attempted to sell our house on our own accord, but a slow housing market and tough economic woes left us wishing we could just pack up the house itself and take it with us. By our moving day, we had listed the house through a Realtor, who would continue trying to sell the house.
There was a significant, unsettled humbling that took place when we moved in with my parents. We had come so far…we had started our own life, our own family…and there we were, more or less, regressing backward. But, I will forever be grateful to my parents for taking us in. And I know Logan will benefit from knowing his grandparents and the rest of his family better through these circumstances than if we had still been living out of state with less interaction with his family.
And that’s really where this year has taken me. It’s stripped me of my professional intentions and my personal hopes for the sake of reconnecting with and strengthening my family. Starting over. Isn’t that what the new year is about? I’m glad to see 2010 go; it certainly isn’t forgettable. But I am a better person for having lived through it, and I hope 2011 is a season of rebounding, recovering…renewing.
