final 2010 post (four months late, lol) I guess that with Gauge’s birthday being two days ago, it made me want to post this even more...
Ten years ago it was the year 2000, and I 22 was years old and...
1. We had survived the Y2K scare, which obviously I wasn’t too worried about because I feel asleep before 10 p.m. on New Years Eve and woke up after midnight to see that the world hadn’t come to an end. I truly think it was a huge hoax to make money.
2. Gauge was born in April. My first pregnancy, my first child, my first boy.
3. I was in my first year of my new job at the Courthouse and knew then how lucky I was to have that job.
4. I thought that 30 was old and I guess somehow thought that my life would end at that point. I wanted to be married, done having children, and comfortable with exactly what I had, so I could be done making any accomplishments...because after all, I would be too old to accomplish anything. Haha! How naive I was. I had no idea how little I knew.
5. I also naively thought that there was no way I could ever love another child as much as I loved my sweet baby Gauge at that time. Although that love for Gauge has never ceased, it’s actually increased by the tons, it’s amazing the room you have in your heart for all the children that call you mom.
6. Less than a mile from my house lived the soon-to-be love of my life (and now husband) and his daughter, Alyssa. We had never met even though we lived in the same small town.
7. George W. Bush won the presidential nomination against Al Gore. I wasn’t too involved at politics at that time, but having a political job sparked my interest, so I was quite disappointed because I, as most of the rest of the Democrats in the county...felt like it was all 'fixed' since he didn't win the most popular votes in the country.
8. I started going to church again more regularly, and I feel that my personal relationship with Jesus Christ was renewed and the seed was planted to make it grow.
9. My Godson Nathaniel passed away the day he was born, on July 11. Michelle & Kris (his parents) lived in Bowling Green at the time, and Nathaniel was born in a hospital up there by emergency c-section, so I never got to see him until at his funeral. He and Gauge would have been a mere 3 months apart in age had Nathaniel lived, and there are still times that I think of what great friends they would have been throughout their lives.
10. I learned that I was much stronger than I knew and that I could make it raising Gauge on my own. We all know it didn’t turn out that way, but for that amount of time, I even surprised myself at how much I was able to do on my own.
