New Beginnings...

Looking back over this past year, I would definitely say that it's been one of the hardest years of my life.  Learning that my parents were moving back to Japan, selling our house (not exactly with a willing heart), moving with three children, and homeschooling two of them with the third being a very busy toddler destroying everything she can possibly get her little hands on, would give me reasons to call this year a time of learning, with lots of mistakes, lots of tears, but so much joy! 

Three precious girls in their Sunday dresses

I am already breaking one my resolutions by staying up too late writing this post, but you know what?  It's ok because they are really goals, not resolutions, that with God's strength, I am going to strive for and only by His grace will I ever reach.  
A few of my goals for this year are to ...1.  Read more to my girls2. Go to bed earlier (oops!)3.  Read through the Bible again in a year4.  Read a book a month (can you tell that I want to read more?)5.  Take a picture every day of something that I'm thankful for (it may not always be posted on here, but I'll do my best.)6.  Run another 5K or 8K7.  Memorize Colossians 1 & 28.  Declutter...