And I'm back...

It's been just over a year since I've blogged here at Rachel Days. A rough year... but I've missed my "home" here at Blogger. So, I'm back! I'm pretty sure no one even knows I'm back here again... but maybe my bloggy friends will find me eventually. :)

A quick review of the past year:

• Greg and I celebrated our 9th anniversary.
• Rachel turned 6 years old!
• Greg's mom moved in with us as well as his brother who was fighting ALS. We also had our 2-year-old nephew with us for a good bit of the time. Our house was full and busy for a while. Greg's mom has since moved to Colorado, and sadly, his brother passed away last week.
• We moved out of my dream house and into a teeny tiny townhouse - temporarily. We are still in the teeny tiny townhouse, by the way... hopefully not for long.
• Rachel started Kindergarten (after our epic failure at Kindergarten last year before she was ready). This year has been great, though! I'll post more about that in a later post.
• I got a job doing medical transcription from home and I'm still in school studying, when I am able to, to get certified as a medical coder so I can move up the ladder a bit career-wise someday.
• I'm still doing some digital scrapbooking and I'm exploring art journaling and card making now, too.
• Homeschooling didn't happen this year because there was just too much else happening. We are revisiting that idea for 1st grade... more on that later.
• I'm been in and out of the hospital since September having surgeries for recurrent benign tumors. It has been and still is a frustrating issue, but we are working on finding our "new normal" now while we continue to seek answers. More on that later, too.

So that is a quick update. I'm hoping I can get my blogging mojo back now!

And finally, how about a couple of recent pictures of Rachel? Can you believe how grown up she is getting?