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It sounds like you had a lot of ups and downs this year but the brighter moments shone through!

For us, 2012 has been amazing as our LO was born in February. He's not the easiest baby but he has brought so much joy to our lives and every single day has been full of awe and admiration for him (mixed in with frustration and annoyance some days!).

My family is totally healthy. My sister gave birth to a beautiful little boy in October. We just finished incredible renovations to our home that we love.

The only downside to 2012 is that quite a few of our friends have gone AWOL since our LO was born...with some not having met him yet. But really, it's their loss!

2013 is a shaping up to be a big year as we will likely be moving cross-country in the spring!

Not much happened for us this year other than getting pregnant and having LO this December. I'm so thankful that my pregnancy was complication free and LO is perectly healthy. I'm so excited for 2013 and being able to stay at home and watch LO grow.

Throwing myself into the fray here. Hi everyone!!

I was just thinking about this -- my knee-jerk reaction was "Man, this year SUCKED." I lost my Grandma relatively suddenly, then my cousin (somewhat expected, given that he was fighting brain cancer for a few years) and then my uncle, very suddenly and unexpectedly a few days before my wedding. The holidays themselves were ridiculously stressful and work, over the last year, has been really hard to predict.

But then I remembered that we got married this year, our awesome honeymoon happened, and I realize it was probably a better year than I recall. I do hope 2013 is better, though (and I think it will be because we're supposed to buy a house and start TTC :)).

I spent most of this year trying to get pregnant (unsuccessfully), so that makes me want to say it was bad, but DH got a huge raise, and I got a promotion, so overall I think it was still a good year. Hoping next year will be better though!

Good! LO was born in August. Had a healthy pregnancy and now a healthy baby. We bought a house. I finished my training and started my first "real" job. Overall, very blessed this year.

We've had more than a few deaths in DH's family, unfortunately - it was a really rough year for his side of the family. But after TTC for almost 2 years, I got pregnant in May, and we'll have our son in early 2013. So it's been both good and bad.

We had a whirlwind year. M was born and placed with us, my career exploded and was very busy, Lala started school, mister transitioned from sahd to two new jobs, we bought one house, put two on the market, sold one, went through 3 nannies, and loved on our girls! I hope 2013 is less busy but just as fabulous!

Its been a pretty challenging year. We've been doing a lot of questioning this year about where we live, jobs, happiness. So, its been a stressful year trying to figure out what is best for our family. My dad had some heart problems so that has also been on our mind this past month. But my Dad is ok and everyone else is healthy so I call that a good year!

Bad then good-ish.
We had a rough first half of the year but things definitely changed the second half. The one thing that would have made 2012 great would be a BFP after TTC for 10 months now.

Well, trying to forget the past and hope for a great 2013!

I had my beautiful, sweet, happy, darling baby boy in February and he has completely consumed our lives!!! So that is VERY VERY good and outweighs any bad.

We've had a rough year financially... blegh. Hoping some doors open up about that...

it's been kinda rough. usually i can think of one awesome event that trumps all the bad things that have happened during a year, and there were just no really awesome events. sure there were smalls joys, but there were more big sad parts & disappointments. i am thankful that it wasn't worse and i'm thankful for that we do have, but i'm really hoping 2013 is a great year!

my nana passed away, one of my BFFs & i didn't speak for most of the year, we've been trying unsuccessfully to get pregnant for well over a year, there were quiet a few injuries & illnesses in my family, DH had some bogus things filed against him that was then retracted but it still cost him time away from work and us $$, on my big surprise vacation for us we both got horribly sick and couldn't leave our cabin for most of the trip, we've been trying to buy our first home and a lot of less than great things have come out that happened to DH's credit by a family member a long time ago, the house i fell in love with fell through after an awful inspection, our car was hit then a couple months later it had the window smashed and they stole stuff out of it, DH worked way too many hours and i put on lots of weight while depressed. haha. it wasn't our greatest year. i'm hoping that means that we have lots of great things on their way for this coming year, like a house & a baby & a new job for DH =)

The year started off very rough. We had a miscarriage on 12/31/11. My husband's grandfather passed away suddenly in the beginning of the year as well. The year improved with several weddings that we attended or were in (my SIL and two couples that we are close with). However, the year ended on a great note with the birth of our son on 10/31/12.

This year has been a ball of stress. I have been pregnant for mmost of 2012. Almost lost my job, started with a new company who "won the contract" so good I got to stay in my job but started over with benenfits and lost all Maternity bennies.
Found out while I was pg that dh has to leave for 1.5 yrs about 3 weeks after I am due. So 2013 is not looking fun. Yes I will have LO in 2013 (or in a matter of weeks now) but can honestly say this pregnany is not what I expected. Hard for DH and I to be excited and plan and all that happy stuff when he has to leave....not that we arent greatful and happy...we are....it def changes things a lot though.

I had a great 2012! Excited for 2013

Overall good! Found out I was pregnant in January, had a threatened m/c but the baby made it and here we are!

2012 has been without a doubt the greatest year of my life. I got married to my best friend, we traveled a lot, I turned 30 (and it wasn't so bad!), had the most amazing honeymoon in Australia, was able to cross many things off of my bucket list, and a couple days ago, I got a new (to me) car. I've had wonderful times with my friends and family as well.

I'll be sad to see this year end!

This year has been a mixed bag. Both DH and I started new jobs. However, I ended up leaving my job of 6 years that I loved due to some very unfortunate internal politics that really put me in a bad place. And the worst of it was I felt I had to put off TTC for 5 months until I had secured a new job. But ultimately, we both got raises and are happy with our career changes.

We also succeeded in taking two amazing vacations to Thailand and Mexico and finally became debt free after paying off all our student loans.

I'm still dealing with the disappointment of having to postpone TTC and still not being pregnant in 2012 as I had expected. But relinquishing control and learning to take things as they come has helped me grow and I think puts me in an even better place for 2013!