Here we are at the end of another year, and I can hardly believe it. This year has FLOWN by! I feel like this year I really joined the adult world. Two children, business owners, home owners, and continual work on our new home has made me feel so OLD, but in a good way. I read over my New Year's resolutions from last year and I accomplished ONE, and not even all the way! I had resolved to:
- Make a quilt....instead I sewed various other challenging projects like a changing pad, car seat canopy and pj pants for the girls and me.
- Get back to my pre-Chloe weight of 156...instead I walked a 5k and did loose 3 lbs! I even fit into my college pants, so I'm feeling pretty good!
- Join a book club...I joined a club, two of them actually, but I haven't been to any meetings!
- Read the Standard Works...didn't do that, but I read my scriptures every day, which is huge for me! I'm almost to the end of Alma (sometimes it wasn't very much, but it was constant!)!
- Make dinner five days a week...hehe, if PB &J counts, then I rocked it! We lived off those while building our house! I'm pretty sure I ate that atleast five days a week!
- A daily curriculum for Chloe...did not happen at all! I was good just to limit her to one show a day! This year will be better!!!
Other things I accomplished this year were:
- Building 4 houses! Woo!
- We kept GlitchBusters open (huge thanks to Chris)!
- Made my first blog book.
- Celebrated our 5th anniversary!
- We moved!
- Learned to cherish every extra moment we have with our girls and count our blessings!!!
- Survived Ronnie's long hours as he moved the radio station across town.
This year has been a very emotional one. We were spread very thin and felt very inadequate much of the time, but through the tender mercies of our Heavenly Father, we were able to get through. It was tough, but what we were going through was a blessing. This year taught us the meaning of sacrifice, in the truest sense of the word. The life we had was already great, but we gave up our time with our girls and most of the time our sanity, so that we could build our amazing new life in our new home. Even as I write this, I feel guilty, because we are so blessed, and there are so many that I know that went through truly horrific things this year. I know many who wish that the hardest thing they had to do was spend thirty hours a week building a new home. The Lord has blessed us this year with health, happiness, prosperity and joy and we hope to be able to pass that on. My new resolutions are:
- No more yelling at my kids
- Sew a quilt!
- Go to the temple once a month
- Have family night every Monday
- Learn a new challenging piano piece
- Start going to book club
- Finish our backyard
- Finish the BOM
- Make dinner 3 days a week (a little more realistic for me)
- Pay off one major debt
I'm excited! Happy New Year!
1 comment:
Do you want to piece a quilt or just tie one?
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