2016

We are getting into the groove this week again...schooling, piano practice, and laundry. Always the laundry. Sometimes it's good to be back to a routine. I am also trying to be more purposeful about working out. The elliptical and I are friends again...as well as the new (to us) stationary bike we picked up Monday night! The sellers were happy to get rid of it, and we were happy to bargain with them...to get it for a better price. Win-win. And it's a Schwinn! (See my little rhyme there?) :)

Hard to believe that this year, 2016, we will finish 4th grade for Mr. P...and Kindergarten for Kenz. Time flies. I never realized how much, until I became a parent. I know what my Dad meant, when he would say, "It seems like just yesterday you girls were little..." We were looking back at old pictures, as Joel works to get our (many zillions of) photos organized. I can't believe how things have changed, since this pic of us leaving our 1st house in 2007!

We celebrated 12 years of marriage in December. We have 2 more kids since this pic. And have 2 precious miscarried babies in Heaven. We currently live in our 3rd house. Time. Flies. I think this is motivation for us to live our days with purpose and find the joy in every thing.

Ephesians 5:16,17 says See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Such a challenge to me! Redeeming the time...which is so fleeting. I want to work in 2016 to find the joy, even in the routine. Especially in the mundane things that sometimes fill my days/weeks. And to be thankful for them. Thankful for these 3 little people that call me, "Mom". And for the man I love, who calls me his wife. These are not things to be taken for granted. 

Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. - Philippians 4:14