Happy New Year from us here at the Peaden Home.
We've got a lot of things planned for this year: Finish out our first homeschool year, celebrate our 10 year anniversary, oh and... have a baby! I'll be honest, having a baby is the biggest and best thing that we are looking forward to.
David asked if I had any goals for this year and I made some quip about how I'm not setting any goals this year. I'm mostly serious. In reality, I'm actually a big believer in goals - but for some reason this year I'm just not feeling it. I don't think that you have to force new goals on yourself just because the date on the calendar changes (although, I usually love the chance to reflect and start a fresh year). But I'm still working on my goals for last year:
-Less complaining (own what I'm doing and do it happily).
-More organization and delegation
-Quality one on one time with Lydia and Austin (and Caleb) every day.
-No phone (or less phone) after David gets home from work.
-Faith and Trust in the Lord
*Cut out anything that interferes with these goals.
Plus - we are halfway through our homeschool journey and it has been amazing so far. I'm committed to putting the effort and energy into finishing the school year strong.
I did just change my lock screen to have a sentence on it. It says "Live what's in your heart." The gist of what that means to me is that I often have big, heartfelt feelings. I have dreams of what I want our home to be like. I have this picture of what I want to be like as a mom and a wife. Often, my actions don't line up exactly with what my heart yearns for - so it is a reminder to me to live my life with intention. My heart knows what kind of life it wants for myself and for my family, and if I try a little harder every day to put into practice those things, I just know that little by little the things of my heart will become our true reality.
David's goals for 2019 are:
-Take care of my high-maintenance wife by showing her all five types of love languages within each calendar week, because she likes all of them and I'm amazing enough to accomplish this feat on a regular basis.
-Work a billion hours at my job, and still come home and give 100% to my family.
-Be an all around amazing husband, father, employee, manager, and disciple of Christ.
Okay, technically I, Shantel, wrote these goals because when I asked David what goals he had he said "Too busy! Too busy for goals right now." (Said in a dramatic voice as he leaned over onto my shoulder pretending to fall asleep.) And also, I wrote those as his goals because he's already doing all of those things - so he doesn't even have to do anything extra!
So I guess this year will be a low key goal year, and that's just fine.
I would say, our family goal is to be kind to each other, spend quality time together, and transition to our new life as a family of 6! And that's a big enough, wonderful enough goal for us.
Happy New Year!
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