every year, i say i am going to do something new...something better....something exciting. after all, that is what we all are "supposed" to do. resolutions are almost a necessity as we flip the calendar over to start all over again.
i will say, though, that being a parent makes a new year beginning a bit more nostalgic and meaningful. before the twins, ben and i lived and learned for ourselves only. sometimes our living was pretty. sometimes little caveats of our living was not-so-pretty. it's funny how much more you care about it all once little ones are witnesses to the lives you lead.
the past year has been so hard. i would like to say it in a different way, but it is what it is. ben and i had lived in ignorant bliss throughout my 9 month pregnancy with our precious babies. we thought family dinners, family church services, etc was what life with babies would simply be. lordy, we were in la-la land.
in saying that, i will also say that the joy tully and minnie have brought us has been in the most purest form possible. pure joy has been given to us by god through our babies. the lord's innocence and the lord's perfection has been given to us day in and day out in 2011 by watching our children learn new things and love life.
i don't really have a new resolution for this year. i guess i have a bucket list for 2012 that's currently being added to, per say, but a single highlight simply doesn't exist. i just want to be better...better at living, better at parenting, better at loving, better at marriage, better in just about every category of my life....but in all of it, better at being joyful throughout it all.
i wish you all joy in 2012....however that looks for you in your own life, i wish that just for you.....
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