2012: Year in Review

Looking back on 2012 is bittersweet. We experienced a couple range of emotions over the last year. Here are some memories, times, that we will never forget:

- Match Day brought our answer to the question everyone was asking us: where will you live?? It has been wonderful to live in a completely new city, make new friends and really establish ourselves as a married couple.

- Our wedding in April. The best day, surrounded with our families and friends. The love we felt that day was overwhelming and we continue to flourish from it, growing more and more in love every day.

- Intern year started in July. It's been a learning curve. It's been a challenge, sometimes rewarding, and usually fun because of my co-interns and senior residents.

- October came with a heartbreak. We lost our father, suddenly. The numbness that comes with the finality one is faced with evolved into transient moments of realization of loss and grief over the next months. We still love him, care for him deeply, remember him daily and try to support his beloved wife.

- November was exciting as a Coptic person when we witnessed the selection of the 118th Coptic Orthodox Patriarch (and the reelection of Barack Obama---had to put that for my husband).

In 2013, we look forward to what God has in store for us. By God's grace, we'll celebrate a big graduation --the kind with the doctoral robes-- this May, a new career, and whatever else God is planning for us; his plans are greater than ours.