The Traveling Housewife: 2012 in Review

My best friend gave me a planner for my birthday last year with space to write in every day, and I decided to use it like a journal. I wrote something that happened every day as well as anything big we had going on, like church meetings. I was consistent enough that there are only a few days with question marks for the whole year. I was reading through it today and wrote down some of the big events. I also counted 70 churches that we were in this year for meetings or conferences. Here are our highlights from 2012!

1/1 - Dedicated The Dida to the Lord at church

1/12 - The Dida's first zoo trip (My mom has worked here for 6 years)

1/14 - The Dida's first table food

2/13 - Toured the USS North Carolina

2/21 - Visited Washington DC - Air and Space Museum, Botanical Gardens, Capitol Building, and the Library of Congress (my favorite!)

2/28 - Busch Gardens in Tampa

3/13-14 - Philadelphia, PA - Walked downtown, Chinatown, Liberty Bell, had real philly cheesesteakes, and ran the "Rocky Steps"

3/17 - Wore a Saree for the first time

3/19 - New York - Ground Zero, Times Square, the subway, The FAO Swartz store, and Tiffany's

3/24 - Lookout Mountain, Chatanooga, TN

4/2 - Zoo in Columbia, SC

4/8 - Easter

4/26 - The Dida's first trip to the beach

5/11 - "Princess" Mother's Day Banquet (my first as an official Mama!)

5/25 - Concord, MA

5/28 - First trip to the ER with the Dida

6/16-17 - Lost my wedding ring in SC and found it 24 hours later in GA - a real "God Moment" in my life

7/24 - Zoo with my Aunt and Cousin

8/31 - Started this blog! First Post!

9/5 - The Dida started walking!

9/8 - Downtown Disney

9/12 - The Dida turned 1! - How to make that hair flower

9/13 - The Hubs turned 28!

9/15 - The Dida's first birthday party - Party Details

9/22 - Lake Erie

9/25 - Hershey's World of Chocolate

10/6 - Sight and Sound - Jonah
10/28-30 - Rode out Hurricane Sandy in a "haunted" historic hotel
11/12 - Dropped Jeremy off at the airport to fly to Nicaragua and had another "God Moment" on the drive back to my grandparent's house - The full story
11/22 - Thanksgiving and my Grandma's 75th birthday