I sit at the keyboard with my hands shaking and sweating. I stop to remember all the memories that we experienced on this project. The joking about the family time we have spent on the project for “our” families. The picture with the team next to the Jesus poster. It was 2 am the day before the go-live. I smile about this moment. I was middle of a storm but at least we have good joke about it. I remember the night a fellow team worker forgot about his wedding anniversary that happened the previous month. Him running to the store to buy a gift card and the team helping him write this card.
In the middle of the project, I remember a teammate family having a car accident and driving off a mountain road and flipping several times. This reminded me that jobs will come and go but you will always have family. Looking back I learned on this project that if you don’t give time for yourself (personal, children and family) you can not thrive in life. You need to have a thriving life to succeed in life and business.
I am not a perfect person but my faults define me as a unique person. A child personality is defined when the child says no and the caretakers listen. This is a lesson I am learning currently, with my daughter.
Change is hard. I am the type of person that would love to live in one house my whole life (no change). I am now at at a spot with change on the horizon. The cards show the Pettinger family moving back to Denver. We will not be moving right now. We have time to sell the house and then move to Denver.
We are happy about the moments we had in Bellingham and the friends we have. We always have new babies running around and families waiting for the baby to arrive. You can always have someone to understand the challenges with the lack of sleep and the difficulty with boys aiming at the toilet.