The New Year

Have you ever looked at the plans you made for the previous years and say "I haven't done anything constructive!?!" That is where I am now...redirecting my life back to where I wanted to be last year and the year before that and the year before that. As a matter of fact I reminded myself of a conversation I had with my spiritual father about my then 5yodd. The conversation went something like this...
Me "I feel like I am loosing touch with my daughter, I know I don't spend the quality time with her I need to. I just don't know what to say or do"
Him "It is not too late, she is only 5"
Me "riigghht, she is young I can start now" I leave with renewed hope that all is not lost.
Fast forward to today and she is 17 and now I have 6 more kids than I did then. SO not only do I not spend time with her I don't spend time with them either. Don't get me wrong I am not upset just shocked at how time marches on and I still have the same goals.
We are working on perfection, not perfect.
One of my favorite sayings is 'if you fall a thousand times a day get up a thousand times.'
So here we are January 2, 2010 and my goals are a cut and paste from last year:
Spend more one on time with each on my ten blessings from God.
Be more patient with each of them including but not limited to answering all their questions.
Keep a more organized home.
This is not an exhausted list just the ones I feel I always need help on. I do want to paint my house room by room, get passports for everyone and get out of debt this year. But those things aren't as important to me as the things that are a part of my character. So here I go into the new year, enthusiastic about what is ahead, not looking behind but forward with my eyes on Christ.

HAPPY NEW YEAR Y'ALL!!