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Timeline Project - Nicole Styles

By NickiS
  • I'm Born

    After 8 years and lots of tears my parents are able to have a baby!
  • First Word: Mama

  • Potty Training Successful :)

  • All First Year Immunizations up to date - Ouch!

  • Need Gates on the stairs - Nicole is on the move climbing stairs

  • Remember being punished - sitting in the corner was awful, but it worked

  • Nicole Goes to Kindergarten

  • French classes are fun at Canadian school

  • Broke my left wrist on a slip in slide in the backyard

  • My mom and dad tell me that they are pregnant - it's going to be twins!

  • Meet my very best friend - at a bible school. We are completely different and it works so well

  • My little sisters are born - I become a second mom haha

  • Join a softball team - love it!

  • Puberty - not so much fun

  • Leaving Elementary school behind - hello High School

  • Smoked for 6 weeks - wasn't as cool as I thought it would be.

  • My first boyfriend

  • I get baptized - we do adult baptism in our church

  • College - Computer Technology - I didn't like it - you'll see two years later

  • I get married

  • I have my first little baby - it's a boy

  • I go back to college - still not sure what I want to be when I grow up, but I study education for starters

  • My second little boy is born :)

  • We move the family to Germany for a year - Woo hoo!

  • I get sick in the hospital for a week - decide to make health a priority, start running

  • We move the family home from Germany

  • Send my firstborn to Kindergarten

  • Have my last little baby boy - we are done

  • I enter nursing school

  • I get my first nursing job

  • Menopause is happening and I meet this life change with a bit of sadness that a big portion of what it meant to me a woman is coming to an end

  • I've been having hearing trouble, I finally get a hearing aid

  • I finally retire - it has been a rewarding career with many different job titiles along the way as we met our families needs

  • Husband and I go on a missionary trip for our church

  • Our children give us a dog for Christmas, it is our last one.

  • Husband and I move to assisted living - as a precaution. We have mixed feelings about this. It is hard to see our lives heading closer to the end of our journey.

  • My husband dies, we saw it coming as his health declined, he is older than I am so I knew he would go before me, but my grief is overwhelming

  • I die - it has been a long and lovely life. I have missed my husband terribly since his death, but was glad to have more time with my children and grandchildren.