When Ruby was born Chris and I immediately and strangely assigned her the same term of affection we have for each other (honey and bunny, respectively). What a lovely coincidence to learn 2011 was the year of the rabbit!
On a side note: We also have a series of nicknames for her: booby, rubes, rubix cube, rubester, rubicon, ruru (Maori for ‘morepork’ which is a kind of kiwi owl), hey you, no-no-no, stop-stop-stop, etc.
In the spirit of all the bloggers out there (I’m looking at you Merrilee) who do those year-in-review blogposts, here’s mine!
I always knew 2011 would be a pretty massive year. In retrospect it was a cakewalk compared to last year. I like to refer to 2010 as the year we became irreversibly domesticated.
In 2010:
- We rang in the new year in Beijing
- We found out I was pregnant
- We bought a house
- In my 2nd month of pregnancy (when I felt the most morning sickness) I co-produced and performed in a comedy show, Laugh Experiences with two comedian-lady-friends.
- In my 4th month of pregnancy, I performed in two more comedy shows with even more comedian-lady-friends (Laugh Experiences and Improv Divas)
- Chris and I went on holiday to Australia. It was our last big hurrah so to speak before “she” got here.
- I gave birth to you know who and spent the remainder of 2010 climbing up the steepest learning curve in my life (I’m proud to say we all survived!)
If 2010 was a year of big life changes, 2011 was the year we settled into those changes.
In 2011:
- Chris and I became dual citizens (for those intellectually challenged that’s Kiwi and American)
- I made my return to the stage with a cameo as the “Fairy Godmother of Motherhood” in my friend Jen‘s first solo show “How’s Wife?”
- Ruby made her first trip to America to charm the socks off of everyone she met (not by herself)
- Chris and I survived over 9 flights and 50 hours of flying with an infant
- Ruby survived her first year of life
- I went back to work
- Chris decided it was time to go back to uni and began applying to schools…in Melbourne (still waiting to hear back)
So if 2011 was the year of settling into big life changes, 2012 promises to be the year of unsettling into even more big life changes.
