1.01.2009

This Year

This year I have many goals...as I'm sure everyone does on January 1.  Not resolutions...they don't seem to stick.  So I am striving after a few goals, goals that I hope will make me a better wife, mother, daughter, sister and friend.  So here goes...my hopes for this new year:

*Read more...I love to read and can't seem to find the time after the boys came along.  I have a stack of about 15 books that I've been wanting to read and I plan to read each one.

*Read the Bible...all the way through.  I've tried over and over and always give up.  It is the most important book I'll ever read and I know I will be blessed for doing so.  I want to read it, soak it in and most importantly learn.

*Drink more water...and a little less coke.  For those who know me, you know this is quite an undertaking.  A cold coke is my crack, but I will try to balance out my intake with a little more water this year.

*Exercise...enough said.  Whether running after my boys or walking on my very neglected treadmill, I hope to be healthier this year.

*Let people know how I feel about them...life is too short not to.

*Play softball again...I may be older and slower and I certainly don't have time, but I hope to hit and run down a few fly balls again before I am too old.

*Write letters to my boys...I bought journals for them when they were born and they remain empty.  This blog is my way of sharing our daily memories but I hope to leave them with hand written letters so that maybe one day they'll know just how much I love them.

*Take a photography class...and enjoy a little something for me.  Maybe, just maybe, I'll learn something.

*Pray more...spend time each day in prayer.  I want to become a person who is constantly in prayer and who can pray openly with my family and especially my children.

*Enjoy quality time...spend time each day with Sam and Jack alone.  If only for a moment, I want time with each boy one on one so that they can know, at that moment, they are the most important thing on my "to do list."

*Save more...spend less.  I can feel my husband smiling as he reads this already.  

*Stress less over a messy house...this will be very hard for me and I am not making any promises (I see nothing wrong with vacuuming every day) but I'll try.  That's all I can do.

*Video more...or have someone else help video more.  Are you listening, honey?

*Count my blessings...really.  Not randomly or occasionally.  I know how blessed I am...two healthy, wonderful boys, a Christian husband, a home surrounded by family and farm land and a wonderful family.  I need to truly thank God for these things...every day.

*Give more...of myself and my resources.  Follow God's principles for giving and watch as he blesses my family for my faithfulness and obedience.

*Play more...with my boys and my nephews and niece.  Run, be silly, laugh and just enjoy life as they do...carefree and simply.

*Relish every second of my life as their mom...it doesn't get any better than this.  

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