A Time of Beginnings

Note: This badly written post is probably boring, but it has babies in it, so it's all cool.

Each year, I marvel at how the time has gone by. At how different than I expected things were. At how long ago last year seems.

I hope it doesn't keep getting more and more like this forever, because each year the gap between this January first and last seems bigger than the previous one did.

This year is no exception, and I don't think next will be either.

The blog only saw eight posts last year, one of which I did not even write. My year was filled with other things, being more busy than perhaps ever before. I got different glasses, got contacts, got a car, finally got my license, got married, moved out and lived in an apartment for the first time, and changed my name within about a month's time.

This year, we'll have a baby before our first anniversary.

(This is added on and not really part of the flow, but I must mention baby Keith. He's awesome, and being an aunt is delightful.)

And so, as my dear husband has been recommending, my blog needed an update as well. My focus isn't books as much as before, but more of the path ahead, which is why I like this background photo looking down a road in Mesick, MI from our honeymoon. The look will be evolving for a while, probably.

I haven't thought much past Christmas this year - besides baby, of course! - and it is now past Christmas, so I should probably do that. But a few thoughts for this year.

We want to have people over frequently, about twice a month. It's really delightful to be the ones to have people over and not have to go anywhere! Connections with people you have into your home form in a way they don't in other settings.

I want to read more books. I have not made time for that much, really since I started college. Parker set us up with this app called Todoist. Clever title, no? Hopefully that will help both with this and with being more organized in general, another of my goals.

To grow closer to God is an easy thing for a Christian to say and resolve. But this past year. I have neglected my relationships in some areas, no more so than here. Thankfully my wonderful husband has been challenging and pushing me to devote time to Bible study and particularly prayer, as well as memorization.

He also tells me I need specific goals - hence the twice-a-month having people over and Todoist. Perhaps this is a goal in itself: make ideals break down into specific goals.

I could go on forever, but time is such a valuable thing. Two more thoughts.

Baby! That is all.

And next year, I want to know and understand and communicate with my husband 52 thousand, as Melody would say, times better than I do now. And those three, God, husband, and baby, will make this year quite an adventure.