Today is the last day of 2013 and I’m not all that excited to see it go. It’s been a year of more mountain tops than valleys, so it’s not like I’m just dying to rush it out and ring something else in.
Time just keeps ticking and ticking and ticking on by – where did 2013 go?! Days with my Wrexy seem shorter and my kids keep growing up without permission! While it is such a joy to see the little adults they are becoming, I don’t want to miss a single day with any of them. I want to take it slow and press it all into the wrinkles in my brain so I don’t forget these days. My life with my little family is significantly more blessed than I ever could’ve imagine for myself. Who am I that He would bestow such merciful blessings on me?
Highlights of 2013
We were blessed with a sweet baby boy (on tax day – he’s redeeming it!)…
Sawyer turned 3 and got to celebrate with a host of family and friends…
We got to go on a vacation to Denver and make lots of memories as a family…
Sawyer got to show her first goat…
We celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary by bowling as a family…
We traveled to Kansas to witness one of our best friends’ wedding…
I got to act out my obedience to the Lord and start this blog…
Sawyer got to be in our neighbor’s wedding…
We got to spend time with the majority of the Phipps family at a cousin’s wedding…
Add all of that to everyday blessings plus visits from family and friends…
2013 was good!
Where did it go? It went by in family dinners, road trips and snuggle sessions…in Cubbies meetings, sale barns and swimming pools…in weddings and pony rides and birthday parties and midnight feedings and suppers in the kitchen and jumps on the trampoline…those everyday moments that make up minutes and hours and days and weeks and months and years and LIFE. I sit here sentimental, cherishing each one…
but I shall embrace 2014 just the same.
You are good and do only good; teach me your decrees.
The Lord has been so good to us…and we pray…
…let 2014 be more about You and less about us.
…let 2014 be more full of grace and love and mercy and kindness and self-discipline and joy and less of their oppositions.
…let 2014 be more about Your will and less about ours.
…let 2014 be about YOU. And only YOU.
Happy new year to you and yours!