Four years ago today, the UPS man delivered my 28-pound package of puzzling joy, and yesterday marked the four-year anniversary of starting this blog! Wow, it’s hard to believe that I have been doing this for so long. Click here and here to see those historic posts once again. 🙂
This puzzle entitled, Life: The Great Challenge, has certainly been a metaphor in my journey with this big, beautiful beast. Here are some of the many Life challenges / highlights from the last four years.
Derek, my oldest son, was 5 months old when I got the puzzle. He’s now getting ready to go into pre-K!
My husband quit his job, then took us to southern CA for 8 weeks to do consulting work.
We put our house on the market, packed up all our belongings, and moved to Atlanta, GA for a new job opportunity.
Status of Section 1 at time of move to Atlanta, GA.
We lived with Randy’s sister and her family for 5 months while waiting for our house to sell.
We lived with great friends for another 6 months while waiting for our new house to be built.
We moved into our new house in mid September and 2 months later hosted Thanksgiving for about 20 people.
After 1.3 years of neglect, I was finally able to pull out the puzzle and work on it again.
I got pregnant with our second child.
I finished Section 1 on April 2nd, 2013 – 2 years, 8 months, and 10 days after starting.
Section 1 finished!
I gave birth to our second son, Cole, on July 30th, 2013 – 3 weeks earlier than planned.
I finished Section 2 on April 13, 2014 – 1 year and 11 days after starting (I’m getting better!)
Section 2 finished!
On July 1, 2014, I got this “brilliant” idea to join a group puzzle project with my friends from the Flickr Puzzling group I belong to….yeah, everyone but me finished within 10 days! LOL What was I thinking?!
Goal date for completion of Section 3 is October 18, 2014. Wish me luck!
