Happy New Year!

Happy 2011!

I love anything new. New clothes, new babies, new shoes,new ideas, a new week, a new year. It is a nice time to take inventory of where you are at and where you want to be - what God doing in your life, etc.

So I did not win any blogging awards for 2010. Work consumed a lot of my time, but I am blissfully unemployed from my Movex gig now, so will hopefully have more time to spend with you blog readers out there.

2010 roared in with a road trip to Vegas for work and another to Mississippi.
Here is a shot from Vegas...


The year started off cold! The 3 older boys were in private school at Berean and Andrew was the ELP program at Schwartzkopf. I was volunteering at school, homeroom mom for the twins, and working full time. (note some errors in this sentence - how the heck did I try and do all of that ?!?) As summer approached, we transfered our last embryo that we had on ice to see if we would have baby #5. May rolled around. The kids were out of school, I was NOT pregnant, but was still working like a dog. Jeff and I began praying more about direction, and decided to go after our family budget with a hatchet so I could quit we working.

We sold a car, our piano, our camper and other random things not nailed down. We cancelled our gym membership that no one used, changed some monthly expenses with insurance, etc, and in November, I stopped working. I honestly feel like I am still recovering from it all. The emotional stress of feeling guilty that I was not with the kids when I was working - and then feeling guilty that I was not working when I was with the kids. It was all quite bizarre.

Fast forward to December of this year. Jeff's work has been slow as well, so all the changes and stuff we unloaded certainly helped the cause! Oh, and we pulled all the kids out of private school.
Here they are on the first day of school! And, they are all on the SAME schedule. It is divine!



The three elementary aged ones are togehter, and Jeffrey a.k.a. now as "Jeff" is in public middle school. I told you, if it was not nailed down, it got dumped out of the budget.

So here I am at the start of the new year. There is NOTHING on my calendar. No work trips. No volunteer duties at school. Just wide open little boxes of dates waiting for what God has for me this year. I am looking forward to being "mom'. I am looking forward to being just "me" - not Molly who does this or that - just Molly. Who knows, maybe I'll actually blog again on a regular basis.

The one thing that I am going to do is memorize some scripture. Pop over to Beth Moore's blog for the details. I'll try and find the link.

Dinner just arrived! Have a blessed 2011!