SO much has happened since then!
Every year I write a newsletter that I send out with my Christmas cards and family picture where I recount all the important things that have happened in our family over the past year. So, I thought maybe it would be fun to do the same for my blog.
Here are the TOP TEN things that I blogged about this past year!
- Family: No big surprise there... My family is pretty wonderful, both the ones who live with me and my extended family. We try to spend a lot of time together and with my husband's schedule, my teens' increasingly busy schedule and our youngest schedule, it's getting harder and harder to do. But we still do our best!
- Life: That's a pretty generic category, I am realizing now. It includes posts about our vacations, how we celebrate the holidays and various miscellaneous things. Sometimes I have a little pity party and think things are tough, but when I REALLY stop and think, my life is pretty easy and very blessed.
- Home: This goes along with life, and since you can tag a post with multiple category, I'm thinking these have overlapped. But I can see from this that HOME is very important to me.... I am a stay at HOME mom and I HOMEschool our kids.... and yet I find that some weeks it seems like I am never HOME! My home is a haven for my husband, so that he can unwind after his long, stressful days at work. There's no other place we'd rather be than HOME! Ok, we love the beach and mountains too! ;)
- Adoption: I thought this one would be first. It has seemed to consume our last year. I've enjoyed updating everyone on the process and all of our visits and now with how we're adjusting... And who knows, maybe there will be more updates in our future? We'll see what God has planned for our family...
- Marriage: I have a pretty darn good marriage... Sure, we have our problems, mostly because I talk a lot! ;) But we haven't gotten to the point of a good marriage without some HARD WORK! We've both learned that it's not about us being "happy", it's about the commitment we made before God to stay together no matter what and to work at this as harder than we work on anything else. We love our Dates and we love to spend time together!
- Homeschool: I didn't want to blog too much about this because it can sometimes be a sensitive subject. I don't want anyone to think that our decision is what everyone should be doing or that my kids are any better than any others. This is simply a lifestyle decision that our family has made that we have never regretted....
- Missions/Ukraine: This was a BIG year for us with my husband and our oldest son going on a 10 day mission trip to Ukraine. I have been on a 3 week mission trip in college. Our daughter hopes to also go to Ukraine in the next year or 2. Now, I don't think you should go on only 1 mission trip in your life, but at this point, my job is to keep things going at home while other members of my family go on these trips. We've have changed our spending so that we can save for mission trips. We were going to start saving for a Disney trip, but realized that for us, sending our teens on mission trips was more important. Now hear me on this- I'm not saying that a trip to Disney or any other vacation or fun spending is wrong! For our family, we can't afford to do everything, so the choice we made was for missions. We'll go on vacations, but that Disney trip is on hold for awhile.
- Exercise: This has been hit or miss in my life this year. I HATE running so that didn't last too long. We joined a local gym for 2 months and that was nice, but we just didn't have the time to continue it long term. A friend of mine gave me an exercise bike for free and I was doing well with that, but school, soccer and sickness set me back a little. I'm hoping SOON to get back into it and make it a regular part of my rountine.
- Books: I had a lofty goal of reading a bunch of books over the summer and into the fall, but life got in the way. I still plan on making it through my stack, but it's definitely going to take me into 2013 to get it done!
- LEO Life: Oh, wow... How embarrassing! It's been such a terrible year for law enforcement but I didn't want to talk about it too much and annoy people. I don't think that law enforcement is any better than any other person, but I realize the stressful job they have and the disrespect they encounter from both criminals and law abiding citizens. I also know that my friends and family are VERY supportive of our crazy life. Not every LEO family has that and so I am thankful that we do!
I have enjoyed this last year of blogging and am looking forward to this coming year and seeing all God has in store for us!
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