2012: A year in review

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2012 has been a crazyyear for me. Good, but crazy.At the beginning of2012, I was having a hard time looking forward to the year ahead. Snookums andI were newly married and I was about to send him off to Afghanistan for 9 months.It would be our firstdeployment, and I just was NOT looking forward to it. (Could you blame me?)
However, now lookingback over the year, that very deployment is what shaped my entire year. All mybest and worst moments were somehow tied in with it. But, for just as many “nofun” moments it supplied, it also made available some of the GREATEST momentsof the year!
Yes, it definitelySUCKED having him away. It was hard on both of us. But, because my husband wasdeployed, it brought us closer, it made us a team!2012 and our deploymentprovided the time, and funds for me to do a lot of traveling, and enjoy somereally cool experiences with my friends and with my family! Without that time,I would have missed out on some once in a lifetime events! (One example isseeing my brother graduate Navy boot camp!)
It also allowed me alot of alone time, to figure some things out for myself, dabble in some of myhobbies, and start to really decide how I want my career and life to play out. (Of course, no matter how well laid our plans are, they will ALWAYS change.)
2012 taught me A LOTabout my husband, our marriage, and it taught me a TON about myself. 2012 really made thephrase “you find out who your friends are” ring true. It taught me that yourfamily will always be there, it helped open my eyes to the way things work, andalso helped me “draw a line in the sand” about other things. In 2012, I learnedhow to stand up for myself.
I grew up a lot in2012. I learned that a positive attitude is important, and decided thatspeaking positive, and surrounding yourself with likeminded people is 90% ofthe battle in being happy.
I learned what ittruly means to MISS someone, I learned what it feels like to be totallyhelpless, and I learned how it felt to have no control over things.
I experienced true JOYand RELIEF after finally seeing my husband safe and sound in front of me again.I also learned thankfulness.

I did a "Top 11 of 2011" post, last year, which you can read HERE. But, this year I am going to do something a little different.
For the next 12 posts,I’m going to look back on each month. It will not only be a way for me torelive a few of my favorite memories of the year, but it will also help remindme of what I learned along the way!
2012 was a very good year for me, even with the deployment. Looking back, it was honestly a BLAST.I hope 2013 holds justas many “lessons” as 2012 did.
Happy New Year!