So here are 37 things that I learned this year:
1. How to be a good long distance friend.
2. A wonderful technique for picking up dog poop.
3. How to save a choking baby.
4. How to start a blog
5. How to be a 22 year old freshman in college
6. How to legally change my name
7. Weddings never really go according to plan.
8. At any age, it is hard to leave your mom.
9. How quickly grocery money seems to disappear
10. The skill of packing and moving.
11. Snapchatting.
12. The value of a new hair do.
13. How to live with someone who uses your toothbrush.
14. How to make gravy.
15. I discovered dry shampoo.
16. The best way to get from Illinois to Indiana.
17. I do not like to fly.
18. How to make adult friends.
19. Dunkin Donuts is actually better than Starbucks.
20. How to knit.
21. Settlers of Catan.
22. How to say goodbye.
23. Sometimes you just have to live with missing people.
24. It is illegal for me to carry a taser.
25. No one should live through winter without flannel sheets.
26. Finally rocked walking in high heels.
27. Garrett hates taking pictures with me.
28. Weddings are expensive.
29. The invention of the Grocery Clip changed my life.
30. How to build a tent... in the living room no less.
31. How to dodge jury duty on the week of your wedding.
32. How to passively aggressively retaliate against noisy downstairs neighbors.
33. Halloween will hereafter always be Harry Potter Day.
34. How to get both a husband and a dog through training at Petsmart.
35. Travel via Amtrak.
36. Diplomatically deal with people who don't like your husband.
37. How to leave home, transfer schools, quit a job, get a job, be married, move everything, lose friends, leave friends, make friends and how much I appreciate my mom.
My heart is full. We've been so loved and so challenged and so supported. This has been a hard year, I don't want to sugar coat that. There have been a lot of changes and pressures and days I wasn't sure I could live through. A lot has changed, and more will change before this time next year; but we are confident in our God and content to wait for His timing in 2015. Thank you for being a part of my year.
See you next year,
-- Emily LeVault
