Happy New Year to one and all. My prayer for you is that peace is in your life this year as well!
Friday, December 31, 2010
2010...Over and Out!
Happy New Year, everyone! I am so excited to embrace 2011. The complete and fulfilled feeling I spoke of in my last post has only grown through this holiday season. My boys bless my life every day. I am feeling like life is pretty much perfect, and so my family has made an important decision...we are complete. We are good enough just they way we are. It feels so good to be starting a new year with this weight off my shoulders. We are planning vacations with our boys, we are planning "just adults" getaways, and I know this year will fly by just like the last one, filled with happiness and memories...if I allow it to be that way. I have finally decided, that is what I want. Peace, contentment, joy in my already abundant life. Who can ask for more than this?
Happy New Year to one and all. My prayer for you is that peace is in your life this year as well!
Happy New Year to one and all. My prayer for you is that peace is in your life this year as well!
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Another Year...
Looking back on the year, I have not written as much as I wanted or needed. However, I think that these eventful past months, as well as the closing of another year in our family's life, is a good time to look back and spill a little of what has been on my mind.
My baby has turned three! This is absolutely unbelievable to me. He just got here! How have three years passed so quickly? I looked back on my post on his birthday last year, and I had expressed a wish that I could freeze him at two, because he was so precious, happy, and perfect at exactly that age. What I never could have expected is that I love him even more infinitely now at three. He is still such a cheerful, adorable child. In the past year, he has also become one of the funniest kids I have ever known. He knows how to get a laugh, and every single day is made brighter because he's a part of it. I can't even put into words the way I feel about him. He has been the most remarkable gift to our family. I am so blessed to be his mother.
Big guy is halfway finished with kindergarten...something else I simply can't believe. The kid lives for school. He has turned into an awesome reader, and he still loves to draw and write. His dearest wish is to be a published author. He is more like me than I ever could have imagined! He has made so many friends this year, and I see him blossoming into a confident, smart young man that I am so proud to call my son. I adore him more every day. His precious smile and excited chattering are so much a part of my life now. He is a child I love, but more importantly, he is a kid I really like to hang out with.
We went to the North Carolina mountains to ride the Polar Express this weekend. The boys are at the perfect age for this experience. My beautiful sons became so thrilled as we approached the "North Pole," and it really was overwhelming to come upon Santa in his sleigh in the snow. Big guy was once again sure that this was the real Santa, since our train ride had taken us to his home, and we got the most wonderful picture of him looking up at Santa in awe. It was hard to take that train ride and not believe! :)
This year has been a tough one in a lot of ways. I have so many things that I want to work on within myself. I have felt myself going through stages of anger, bitterness, and jealousy, and these are qualities within myself that I really, truly hate. However, at the end of this year, on this wonderful mountain adventure with my husband and sons, I didn't feel any of those things. I felt peaceful, I felt blessed, and I felt almost...almost...complete. My prayer for 2011 is that those days become the rule rather than the exception. I have so much! I have so much it is almost overwhelming to me. My resolution is to live every day for what I have already been given, not for what I may (or may not) one day receive. My family is a gift of inestimable value, God has blessed me so very richly, and I am humbled by the great privilege of having these boys in my life.
My baby has turned three! This is absolutely unbelievable to me. He just got here! How have three years passed so quickly? I looked back on my post on his birthday last year, and I had expressed a wish that I could freeze him at two, because he was so precious, happy, and perfect at exactly that age. What I never could have expected is that I love him even more infinitely now at three. He is still such a cheerful, adorable child. In the past year, he has also become one of the funniest kids I have ever known. He knows how to get a laugh, and every single day is made brighter because he's a part of it. I can't even put into words the way I feel about him. He has been the most remarkable gift to our family. I am so blessed to be his mother.
Big guy is halfway finished with kindergarten...something else I simply can't believe. The kid lives for school. He has turned into an awesome reader, and he still loves to draw and write. His dearest wish is to be a published author. He is more like me than I ever could have imagined! He has made so many friends this year, and I see him blossoming into a confident, smart young man that I am so proud to call my son. I adore him more every day. His precious smile and excited chattering are so much a part of my life now. He is a child I love, but more importantly, he is a kid I really like to hang out with.
We went to the North Carolina mountains to ride the Polar Express this weekend. The boys are at the perfect age for this experience. My beautiful sons became so thrilled as we approached the "North Pole," and it really was overwhelming to come upon Santa in his sleigh in the snow. Big guy was once again sure that this was the real Santa, since our train ride had taken us to his home, and we got the most wonderful picture of him looking up at Santa in awe. It was hard to take that train ride and not believe! :)
This year has been a tough one in a lot of ways. I have so many things that I want to work on within myself. I have felt myself going through stages of anger, bitterness, and jealousy, and these are qualities within myself that I really, truly hate. However, at the end of this year, on this wonderful mountain adventure with my husband and sons, I didn't feel any of those things. I felt peaceful, I felt blessed, and I felt almost...almost...complete. My prayer for 2011 is that those days become the rule rather than the exception. I have so much! I have so much it is almost overwhelming to me. My resolution is to live every day for what I have already been given, not for what I may (or may not) one day receive. My family is a gift of inestimable value, God has blessed me so very richly, and I am humbled by the great privilege of having these boys in my life.
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