I have mixed feelings about 2016 because while Joe losing his job at the end of February cost us valuable retirement savings time, and we couldn’t enjoy his time off to its fullest since we didn’t want to dip into our savings account too often, it was nice having four day weekends together. I’m hoping 2017 will be a little more fun for us overall since we won’t have financial worries hanging over our heads.<\/p>\n
January<\/strong><\/p>\n I turned the dreaded 40<\/a> February<\/strong><\/p>\n Chocolate Expo<\/a> March<\/strong><\/p>\n We spent the month just adjusting to Joe being home all the time and he took over the cooking and cleaning.<\/p>\n April<\/strong><\/p>\n Private roller skating party<\/a> May<\/strong><\/p>\n Brookfield Zoo<\/a><\/p>\n June<\/strong><\/p>\n Got rid of our DVR and cut our cable package to the bare minimum<\/a> July<\/strong><\/p>\n Joe and his daughter reconciled<\/a> <\/p>\n August<\/strong><\/p>\n Indiana Beach<\/a> September<\/strong><\/p>\n Nothing terribly exciting.<\/p>\n October<\/strong><\/p>\n I had a health scare<\/a> November<\/strong><\/p>\n Gizmo passed away (Nov 11th) but I didn’t write about it because it was very painful.<\/p>\n We visited Joe’s family in Arizona December<\/strong><\/p>\n Joe got a job<\/a> I have mixed feelings about 2016 because while Joe losing his job at the end of February cost us valuable retirement savings time, and we couldn’t enjoy his time off to its fullest since we didn’t want to dip into our savings account too often, it was nice having four day weekends together. I’m hoping 2017 will be a little more fun for us overall since we won’t have financial worries hanging over our heads. January I turned the dreaded 40 Our first meetup February Chocolate Expo Chicago Auto Show Post Secret event in Milwaukee Joe lost his job March We spent the month just adjusting to Joe being home all the time and he took over the cooking and cleaning. April Private roller skating party Marshmallow passed away Went to a Cubs game May Brookfield Zoo June Got rid of our DVR and cut our cable package to the Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8189"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8196,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8189\/revisions\/8196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOur first meetup<\/a><\/p>\n
\nChicago Auto Show<\/a>
\nPost Secret event in Milwaukee<\/a>
\nJoe lost his job<\/a><\/p>\n
\nMarshmallow passed away<\/a>
\nWent to a Cubs game<\/a><\/p>\n
\nWent to The Cure concert<\/a> (which was the highlight of the year for yours truly)
\nHad a garage sale<\/a> which was mostly a complete waste of time<\/p>\n
\nMilwaukee Zoo<\/a>
\nFixed the refrigerator water dispenser<\/a><\/p>\n
\nSteve passed away<\/a><\/p>\n
\nDay 1<\/a> – Flight & Food
\nDay 2<\/a> – Chicken & Waffles
\nDay 3<\/a> – Botanic garden
\nDay 4<\/a> – Met my great niece for the first time
\nDay 5<\/a> – Wildlife World Zoo
\nDay 6<\/a> – BINGO
\nDay 7<\/a> – Lights of the World Festival
\nDay 8 & 9 <\/a> – We adopted a dog and went home<\/p>\n
\nVisited my uncle<\/a>
\nDoug passed away<\/a>
\nFinally named our puppy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"