my candy cabinet is full of all of my favorites (ok…it’s not a WHOLE cabinet completely dedicated to candy…just a section….)….there are hot tamales, chocolate covered expresso beans, toblerone, dove chocolate, haribo gummi bears, a take five, junior mints…. i’m in a place of tension – i want it to last as long as possible and i also want to eat it all right now. it's a dilema...a conundrum (i just wanted to use the word conundrum)
i’m so thankful for days that are compatible for catching up – days where the time is there and the motivation is there (earlier this week I was having motivation issues). i caught up on 4 journals today! Christmas journal + all 3 kids’ journals!
i can’t help but reflect as 2010 comes to an end. thus, a list….
ten things that didn’t happen this year (things that either really don’t matter/are just random observations – the first few – or things that I’m super thankful didn’t happen – the last few)(and i didn't intend for it to be 10...i just wrote what came to mind...and when i counted it ended up being 10!):
- the UGA flag didn't get hung up.
- there were no candles in our windows during December.
- the McMichael family didn’t go to St. Simons (but DID go to Myrtle Beach!)
- i didn’t see my mom at Christmas (she was sick).
- i wasn’t pregnant (that’s the first year that’s happened since 2003)
- none of our kids had major illnesses (and really not even many minor illnesses).
- there was no reason to get in touch with our car insurance company (no wrecks, no tickets, etc.)
- there were no positive test results (or negative results when a positive was needed!)
- no significant deaths (of course there were deaths and they were significant – but no one particularly close to us…hope that doesn’t sound offensive…)
- we didn’t have to pay big bucks (close to $3000) to have our car fixed – we happened to have coverage through Ford with a $100 deductible (God did that).
that is a hard list to make…i can’t even comprehend all that didn’t happen in 2010…it’s incredible to think of all the heartache and hardship and hurt that God saves us from…i thought about making a list of all that DID happen this year – but i’m not sure i can wrap my mind around that one either…at least not tonite. i do know that God is faithful. He is good. He is enough. 2010 was a year of experiencing that…
AND – EXCITING NEWS!!! i figured out why the post time was wrong….it was set for Pacific Time! it SHOULD be correct now…not sure why blogspot/blogger/whatever you call it chose Pacific as the default time (and i just noticed that it changed the time on all my other blog entries….so now my random time posts aren’t going to make sense. oh well!). we can all rest easier now, i'm sure.
seems like more people than usual have made mention of being excited about 2011 'cause "it's going to be a great year"...may it be so! (seems like alot of the time we get what we expect...i'm excited that so many around me are expecting great things in 2011!)
