another year gone.

So I recently had a birthday. Yes, I am finally 27 (for real this time! If you didn't hear I went like 3 months telling people I was 27 getting ready to turn 28, I guess I have already began to lose it...). Birthdays are funny how they make you reflect, make you nervous about the future, and how they seem to pass now with hardly any real thought towards them. They are just another year gone.

I have been thinking about the things that I have learned over the past year. The good, the bad, the unforeseen. If you can take a few minutes to sit in the quiet of your own mind, ask yourself this question, "What have I learned this past year that has impacted me?"

Here's how I answered...

Probably the biggest thing I have learned this year is that God is faithful when we are faithless. I do not know know when it happened, or how, but I actually feel like one of those people that can sincerely say 24 hours in a day is not enough! I'm not saying I walked away from God this year because I was busy, but its funny how I could look at the calendar and realize I hadn't read my Bible in a couple of weeks... Or maybe really sat down and had real one on one quiet time with Him. During those weeks I never once felt like God walked away, I always felt Him when I prayed... He was faithful. I always find myself asking, "Why?" No human would remain faithful in a relationship where there was no effort for a few weeks! I'm just being honest here. We now have 5 services on Sunday. I usually attend 2-3 back to back. That's a lot of church, BUT that's not a lot of "relationship". Your relationship shouldn't be based on a Sunday, that's the easy day, it should be based on the other 6 days of the week. So I'm working on being better on my half of the relationship...

I also learned what a, "courtesy flush" is, thanks to my friend Irene. If you don't know what it is, send me a message and I'll explain it. Thank you Irene!

I told you, it's the good, the bad, and the UNFORESEEN. That one would definitely fall into that category.

I've learned that these two people make me laugh and keep a smile on my face more than anyone in the world...

I am pretty nervous about her becoming a teenager... Wow. Maybe even actually dreading it, we definitely need a boy to even out some of the drama! If you could only hear the conversations that go on in this house or how she already has little crushes on some of the boys at her school... You'd be worried too!

Let's see... On that note, I realized over this past year I hate awkward questions like, "So when are you going to have another one?" But yet those same questions come spilling out of my mouth too! I hate it! "So when are you thinking about getting married?" "When are you going to try to have a baby?" "When is the next baby going to be here?" Ughhh... I'm trying to delete these phrases from my brain, but they've been burnt into it from years of hearing them!

The last thing that I've learned over this past year is that I'm a horrible blogger! I want to be dedicated. I want to blog at least weekly, if not more. I would like to tell you, "I'm going to do it more, I promise!" But that would be setting myself up for failure and we all know it! Right now, I'm just going to be okay with being a quarterly blogger :) Haha...

Happy Birthday to all of my blogger friends out there! Just in case I don't get to tell you..

See you soon! (fingers crossed!)