I am truly excited about 2012. I have a feeling of hope and promise in my heart. Now, I am not really a big New Year's resolution person. I don't really believe that there is any magic in the January 1st date. I believe that I have the opportunity every single day to get up and make a decision to live differently if I so choose. That, to me, is one of the may invaluable jewels of being a Christian. I make a choice daily to follow what I feel Jesus is leading me to do, to say, to think, and feel. I can sincerely ask for forgiveness and repent, turn from my ways, and lead a new life, in the very next moment if need be. Now all that being said, I am going to make a goal of getting right back on my healthy eating plan. Five pounds of holiday weight gain later, and I feel the need to avoid sugar at all costs! Maybe that cinnamon roll stand isn't such a great idea....for my thighs, anyway!
I sure have missed you, little blog, but I had to take a little break during Christmas due to our busy schedule. It seems like for two weeks straight, we were busy every evening with the kids' and adult fun holiday activities. We soaked up every minute of the Christmas season. We are that crazy family that sings Christmas carols in the car. Yep. That's us. Just like the Griswold's in Christmas Vacation. And yes, it usually ends up that Danny and I are loudly singing in the front seats, while the kids look out the windows in the backseats, anxious to make our destination. We are the family cruising the block slowly, seeking the most outlandishly decorated houses. We drove down Sunset, our local famous Christmas crazy decorated block, probably 10 times. I am the mom who dressed her three daughters in the same matching Christmas dress for each and every Christmas party. And of course, my house has been continually filled with Christmas music, from sun-up to lights out since November 26th. The house has been fully decorated since the day after Thanksgiving, and I have loved every minute of it.
I have always tried to have everything pertaining to Christmas down and out of the house on or before January 1st. I feel that the new year deserves it's own time, apart from all things December. All of the decorations have been down and the Christmas music put away for a few days now. My house just seems a little dreary, as do I, I must admit. I seriously considered whether it would it be odd to have evergreen garland permanently draped over my "mantle" (it's not really a mantle, more like a hole in the wall, but who's keeping track?), but decided against it. The space where the tree sat is now completely bare, just a lonesome corner. I miss the Christmas music, so have turned on my favorite playlist a couple of times, but it doesn't feel right. It almost makes me more sad to listen to it. Ok, moving on....time for some pictures...
2011 was an absolutely wonderful year for my family. As I've said before, we've hit a magical, golden era in the lives of our four young kiddos, where life is just so good. So good. If Danny and I had only known how good it would be so soon, we probably wouldn't have felt so sorry for ourselves when the twins were born, so helpless and pre-mature and the girls were so young, too boot. We felt so in over our heads in 2008, 2009, and into 2010, it's crazy to think about it now. Maybe God had to take us down that difficult and seemingly endless, sleepless, painful path to come out so high in the end. I praise God for giving us our children so quickly. I never would have imagined I would have four kids in three years, after only being married for five years, but that is what God gave me, and I will be eternally grateful for His infinite wisdom and gifts.
Anyway! Whooo...moving on. I would like to leave with you a handful of photos from our family portrait session from last month. May God bless you this year!
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