In case you forgot my goals for this year...here's a reminder...
- Play more games, at least a couple nights a week. We have a ton of board games, card games, and puzzles. This also counts as social skills therapy for my kids who have trouble with losing. ;)
- Eat healthier. Strongly considering going gluten free for at least a month, just to see what happens...
- Walk more. I'd like to get in 365 miles, which doesn't sound like much, but it's too darn cold right now, so I'll have to make up some miles in the nicer weather.
- Better model the behavior and language I want from my kids.
- Not pay any bank or late fees.
- Go on at least one date a month with my husband.
- Blog at least 52 times. Because I slacked off last year, especially after learning these posts are being watched.
2. I did go GF and it has helped several health issues I have dealt with for years...migraines and sinus troubles. I was also diagnosed with inflammatory arthritis this year after seeing several doctors and having every test under the sun done. I feel best when my diet is cleanest...no refined sugar, no gluten, limited grains. When I eat gluten, I do feel it almost immediately in my joints and usually experience a 3 day headache. What do I miss most? Pizza and Tim Horton's cinnamon rolls. I also completely quit drinking Pepsi in May, which is amazing. I drank one or two 16-20 ounce Pepsi's every day for over 15 years, and quit...cold turkey. I have found a soda I can have on special occasions...Izze. It's made with fruit juice and no other sweetener. Last I tried a sip of regular soda, it tasted terrible. Never going back! :)
3. Walk more? Fail. In my defense, way back in January, I had no idea how sick I was about to get. At that point, I was having major vision disturbances but that was my only symptom. By May, I could not walk farther than to the bathroom and I ended up in the ER with lymph nodes swollen bigger than golf balls. In June, I was diagnosed and started on some medications for arthritis, but my joints have not recovered. Yet.
4. Model behavior and language I expect from my kids...always a work in progress. Some good days, some not so good. Thankfully, my kids are forgiving and every day is a new day...for them and for me.
5. Bank/late fees. Well, almost. I'd say we did pretty well, considering the kind of year we've had. God is good...
6. Blog at least 52 times? Fail. I just can't do it when there is so much I can't talk about and I have to worry about what little thing I say might be misconstrued and used against me. And no, I can't talk about why I can't talk about what I can't talk about. Ha. Someday I'll meet this goal...and until then, rest assured that I am just focusing on living my life and not caring who is watching or why. Watch away. We've got nothing to hide. So there...which goes into my one word for the year...
Fearless.
That word has applied in so many ways to our life this year. We've had some shakeups and big changes, but I have also had remarkable peace. This has been a big struggle in the past, and I am so thankful for God's blessing of peace. I am no longer scared of our future. We are going to be okay. We have faced so much already...what is there to be afraid of now? Things work out in the end, they always do. What is the alternative, you know? Again, God is good. I am thankful.
