Inventory

This past year, I...

• was amazed at how fast time went, despite how slowly it felt during 2am feedings. Tonight, when I rocked Bug to bed, he could barely fit on my lap.
• never realized how much a baby's laugh could fill me with joy.
• lost the 55 pounds I gained, and another 5. And a dress size.
• lost 20 minutes off my best marathon, and somewhere around 40 minutes or so off a 70.3.
• laughed at the irony of this, since I spent the better part of last year worrying I'd be huge and slow forever.
• found a few more gray hairs.
• enjoyed 4 months of maternity leave, and then went back to work.
• dealt with some anxiety related to the return, but know I made the right decision.
• watched Matt become an amazing father.
• took Bug to the pool, the Zoo, Lake Wawasee, Lake Erie, Mitchell's Ice Cream (a lot), the circus, a few Indians games, the Nature Center, on bike rides, and on my training runs for the marathon.
• became completely immune to puke, poop, snot, and drool.
• realized that Boston isn't just a self-depricating joke for me anymore. It's a possibility.
• felt a little (selfishly) better knowing that the rest of the nation was in a bit of a recession, too.
• got to join a wonderful group of people and share triathlon with some awesome girls
• appreciated my job even more for the opportunities it gives me to be with my family.
• experienced having 2 sets of grandparents within miles, and saw how wonderful that was.
• wished someone would have told me about the freaky post-nursing hair loss that apparently is quite common but TOTALLY FREAKED THE CRAP OUT OF ME. Note to self: now you know.
• realized that life is just a little sweeter with his snuggles and smiles.
• never want to forget what it was like to rock him to sleep every night, and feel his little heart that I helped make beat against my chest as he sighed himself to sleep.
• felt like the luckiest girl on the face of the earth.