We all know that this year is coming to an end. We all make resolutions for the next year that we usually end up giving up on by the end of January, if not sooner. Some will last a couple months, maybe, but more often than not, we give up on our resolutions. I don’t really make “resolutions”. I make goals that I would like to achieve by the end of the next year, but I do that every year. As in, I continue every year because there is always something that I can improve on.
If I was still single and living by myself, I would just work on myself and be the best that I could be, with Gods help, of course. We cannot always work on ourselves though, even when we are single. If that makes sense. In a way, we are always working on ourselves, whether we think we are or not. Everything we do, every day, is adding or taking away from ourselves. The question is, what are we adding or taking away from our character, from ourselves?
Now that I am married and have a family to take care of, my goals are all about them. We just had Christmas, and I hope everyone had a very merry Christmas and enjoyed time with their friends and families! There is a day that many people do their Christmas shopping on (besides Christmas Eve :P). It is Black Friday. I went Black Friday shopping with my mother-in-law, and she asked my husband (if I remember correctly), what he needed or wanted, and he said “Just buy my wife something nice.” Which is super sweet, right?! It was. The only problem is, there is nothing I can think of that I want or need, besides groceries and money for bills, am I right? 😛 I will look at things on Amazon and see things that I like but then I look at it some more, and then I change my mind.
Anyway, I was out shopping on Black Friday with my mom-in-law, and she wanted to do what my husband said – buy me something nice. Which I did look. I looked at the clothes. I really looked. I tried super hard to find something that I really liked, and liked enough that I would actually wear more than once. Well, now that I have a family, all I think about it getting things for my husband, my daughter and even the dogs sometimes. 😛
I hardly ever look for myself anymore. Unless it’s like a cheap $5 shirt or sweater or something, which you can usually only find at Walmart, and maybe occasionally Target. But I hardly ever go shopping anymore, anyway. The only shopping I do is groceries and paying bills and occasionally I’ll pick something up for my daughter or husband if I see something that they would like.
Do you ever find yourself like that? You try so hard to find something you like, because maybe either someone (your husband) wants you to get something nice or maybe you just want to splurge on yourself a little bit, but you just can’t find anything that you really want? The only thing that I’ll splurge on myself every now and then is maybe a coffee from Starbucks, because think about it, those coffees aren’t cheap! Am I right?! Or I’ll go get a slush from Sonic or something like that! That is my splurging on myself these days, if at all.
But anyway, back to the new year part! I tend to go on rabbit trails sometimes, But then again, I actually didn’t go on one this time! But now I am!
So, when you think about your New Year Resolutions, just think about what you want to do to better yourself for yourself, for your family, or whatever it may be. Or maybe it is to volunteer at a certain place once or twice a month or something like that. Don’t make “resolutions”, just take life one day at a time, do your best, and have a better relationship with God. We need to read our Bibles more, and really get into it, not just skim through and say “Ok, I read it.” and be done. We need to really think about the words and pages that we are reading. Those are God’s Word, after all.
We are also expecting our second child! We are very excited! If you all would pray for us in this, and that the pregnancy will go smoothly, and that we can figure out our finances and find a house that will work for us and our budget, that would be greatly appreciated! We are a growing family of four now! Six – if you count the dogs! 🙂
We have three more days of 2019 left. Make them worth it. And make every day after that worth it and make them count.
I hope you all had a very merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Here is to 2020!
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