1. You learn who your friends are.
Sometime, people don't even realize that they have shown you just what you need to see to dismiss them from your life. Sometimes people don't even realize how much they've hurt you by not including you. But you have to learn to move on. You have to just remember the good times and don't hold a grudge. Maybe they've changed. Maybe they don't even realize that you have dismissed them. In that case, how sad...
2. Life is short.
My husband is my life. My happiness. My joy. When I found out that his life would never be the same for him medically, it meant that our lives would change as well. Acute Renal Failure. Not the kind of thing that just goes away like a cough or a sneeze. It's for life. It means transplant. It means that I have to be strong.
3. Marriage is what you make it.
Marriage doesn't have rules. There is no RIGHT or WRONG way to do it, you have to do what works for you both. I've learned when to let go and when to hold on a little longer. Some things are just not worth fighting over.
4. Hold on to your babies tight.
In 6 months, I have learned to squeeze my baby a little longer. I learned that it's OK to snuggle her to sleep sometimes. Just because people say that doing it will make her co dependent, or she won't sleep in her own bed... I can get over that. I can't get her back if anything happened.
So, those are 4 of the top things I've learned in close to half a year. Stick around to see what another 6 months will teach me.
