Year End 2011

I am playing catch-up and it has been a crazy year. I suppose as most years go there have been some good stuff going on and terrible stuff going on in my family. The terrible stuff will be the first to go that way I can get the tears out of my system. I am on vacation and it is coming to an end with tears mostly at night when everyone is in bed. I am here alone with my computer playing games while thoughts run through my head.

Early in January this year, my mom-in-law ended her battle with cancer and the Lord took her home with Him. She decided to stop the cancer treatments during the summer or early Fall and we never asked for a time frame as to how much longer she had with us. Thanksgiving sucked in 2010 as everything was so chaotic. We had planned for a simple Thanksgiving and for some reason it got all complicated. Christmas was spent with my family in Ohio which seemed to have gone better except for the fact that my cousin's boyfriend was a little drunk and decided to throw out some swear words from time to time. January 2011 came around and my mom-in-law died.

In February, my grandma decided to kick the bucket as well. She died the day before her birthday. My mom never gave grandma her birthday present. We had a traditional Roman Catholic burial for her and I said the petitions. My cousins did the readings and my sister and other cousin brought up the gifts. If you aren't Roman Catholic and you are reading this all confused, send me a comment and I will clarify.

Jumping to October, as I said the good stuff will come later, my Uncle Louie dies of cancer pancreatic to be more specific. He went quick considering he was diagnosed in during the summer. The doctors did what they could for him though like my mom-in-law progress was difficult to find so treatments were stopped and he died.

In December, my Uncle Johnny decides to die from alcohol poisoning. He also had some other medical conditions and was taking other medications to treat those conditions so I am unsure as how his body was affected by the mixing of medications with the alcohol. He had a simple memorial service since his body was cremated. My cousin and I did readings and the priest did the petitions. No one did gifts since the memorial service was at the funeral home so only a partial Roman Catholic funeral.

A mix between the two, I crammed 600 hours into one semester to graduate on time. Amazingly enough, I got all 600 hours between two internship sites. God comes through when I needed him the most. He was my strength during this time when I wanted to quit. Okay enough of the bad stuff, now onto the good stuff.

In March, we celebrated my birthday as well as my son's First birthday. In April, I hit the "300" mark on internship hours. In May, I complete all 600 hours and graduate on time with my class. In July, I receive my limited license and go into private practice with my own company Community Recovery Counseling Center, PLLC otherwise known as CRCC. Thanksgiving and Christmas go much better this year than they did last year. Both were very low key which is what my family needed for this year. That covers 2011.