Ringing in a new year always has its ups and downs for me. It's exciting to feel like you can start anew with goals and hopes for the next 12 months. But for me, a new year also means turning another year older which scares me. I don't want to get old.
Anyway, I thought I would write down a few of my hopes for 2011, as I've been thinking about them for several days now.
1. Be in the Word daily. Our pastor preached an amazing sermon yesterday about delighting ourselves in God's Word. I want to do that. I want to delight in the Scriptures every day.
2. Have more mommy friends. There are tons of women in our church who have infants like me and I just haven't made the time to get to know them. I realize my need for fellowship with other women in the same phase of life as me - in order to keep my sanity and hopefully to reassure myself I'm doing at least some things right as a mom!
3. Improve my time management at home. I need to work on how to balance time between taking care of Caleb and yet still keeping our house in some sort of order (ie cleaning, running errands, cooking, staying within budget on everything, etc). If I ever get to that point I will be oh-so-happy.
4. Pray more diligently for others. My prayer life lately tends to be self-focused. I want to lift others besides myself and/or my needs in prayer.
5. Learn new things. This year I hope to learn how to crochet and want to cook a new recipe weekly. I'm also going to start my first raised bed vegetable garden.
6. Quilt and read. I love doing both of these things and hope to be able to do more of both of them this year. I would like to make good progress on my cathedral window quilt and I hope to read a lot of books.
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