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This is for the Eiffel Tower Oct BOM Challenge. The challenge was to think about change in your life. the year 2009 was full of changes in my life and I choose to try to put it all in one LO. The covered photo is of my FIL holding my 2 week old daughter in his final days. I covered the photo out of respect for him. The journaling reads.
2009 was a year of profound change for our family. Less than ten months after we got married Toph and I welcomed Genevieve to our new family. She was and still is the best thing either of us has ever done. Sadly, as we prepared for our new life with our daughter Topher’s father was finishing his journey and he passed just days after we moved to Arizona. Topher was left an orphaned adult and Genevieve lost the best partner in crime she would have ever had. Topher was devastated by his loss and feeling guilty about moving us so far away from Michigan where my family and support network live. And he would soon begin residency and work more than seventy hours nearly every week. Genevieve and I would spend many long and lonely days together. The effects of all of this on my husband were terrible and it was difficult for me to watch. I could offer little other than patience, support and love, it all seemed so inadequate as I watched my husband and best friend living with such tremendous grief. Genevieve was the one thing in this world that could make him smile some days, but she was a difficult baby for her first three months. She had colic that would make her cry inconsolably for three hours every evening and she never slept more than two hours at a time leaving me weary and ragged. Being a new parent was more difficult than I could have imagined. Some days I felt incapable of being the parent Genevieve would need. It was so heartbreaking to feel like I couldn’t take care of either of the people I love most in the world.
In the summer of 2009 I would have guessed that Toph and I would never survive all that we had been through. However, from the vantage point of October 2010 I see that all these trials have only made us stronger and more committed to each other.
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