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Mom and Dad B flew home. Christmas decorations are coming down. 2010 is officially underway.

I wasn’t planning on doing one of those year-in-review reflection summary posts. But here it is.

2009
January – Brandon and I rang in the New Year in Saskatoon. It was blizzarding. His first visit to meet my family and experience Canadian winter.

February – Booked tickets for parents to come to Nevis.

March – MED 5 has a garage sale as we all prepare to leave the island.

April – Finish Basic Sciences. Say good-bye to Nevis. Initiated refund process with Travelocity. Whisked away on a surprise trip to Venice. Engaged!

May – Bought wedding dress at first stored I tried. Nightmare getting it fitted. Mornings at YMCA with mom. Days at Moose Jaw library with Step 1 material. Fought with Travelocity for refund.

June – Brandon surprises me by driving to Moose Jaw. More studying. Robin and Aruna visit the farm on their way to Ontario.

July – Finally receive refund from Travelocity. Step 1 is done! I passed!

August – Married! Rotations start in Oklahoma City. Deliver a couple of babies.

September – Husker season starts. Ob/Gyn is replaced by Family Medicine. Suh joins our little family.

October – Family Medicine (and H1N1 flu season) ends. Enjoy Internal Medicine.

November – Brandon cooks his first turkey for American Thanksgiving. The Roughriders make it to the Grey Cup.

December – Mom and Dad B come to visit! Brandon takes Step 1!

I can hardly predict how this year is going to top the awesomeness of last year… but here’s a sneak peek at what’s to come.

2010
January – Finish Internal Medicine rotation. Start Pediatrics. Apply for and arrange fall elective rotations.

February – Head to Vancouver for a few Olympic hockey games. Joyce takes Step 1!

March – Psychiatry rotation.

April – Take Step 2. Start 3-month Surgery rotation.

May – Maddy turns 7!

July – Roughriders are back in Mosaic Stadium.

August – 1st anniversary!

September – Husker season starts again!

December – Brandon finishes his MBA!

Today’s photo is of the Survivor Tree at the Oklahoma City Memorial for the Murrah Federal Building bombing. I absolutely adore this tree. I don’t know what it is. Maybe the old grainy black-and-white photos of it sitting in someone’s backyard decades ago. Or the way new growth sprouted the spring after the bombing when everyone needed to believe life would go on.

I am thankful we are more than just “surviving” this time in our life. We are soaring and celebrating. Life is awesome.

Today’s photo is of the reflecting pool at the Oklahoma City National Memorial site dedicated to the victims of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.

As I think back on 2009, I realize I can’t get away without writing a summary post of all the awesome and amazing things I’m so very thankful for.

Coming up. But in the meantime, it is a great time in my life to be living in the present and looking toward the future.

“It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.”
~ Unknown

I wanted to thank the following ladies for upping to the holiday cheer quotient around here:

Jillian – I curled up in bed with a cuppa cocoa last night. I have been drooling over the latest homemade bottled Christmas gifts on your blog.

Laurie – The cards are beautiful. I am looking forward to thinking up occasions to mail them in the new year.

Joanne – So much oatmeal, so little time! YUM! Thank you for rounding out the food groups in our holiday snacking plans.

You gals rock. Thank you!

some of my favourite blog writers are coming out of the woodwork after weeks and weeks of lame, spotty, sketchy pretend posting.

it must be November! i never formally participate in National Blog Posting Month, but i love everyone else that does.

October came and went again.

for the 9th time on this blog.

thanks for reading. if it wasn’t for you guys, well… *sniff* you know. i mean, a lot has happened over the years. some ups, some downs. i taught myself HTML from the confines of a falling over data entry office in the days when startup.com’s were making money. ironically, i was coding images and descriptions for hospital supplies.

and here we are.

and here we go.