New Year to Be Thankful

     It's a new year and I am back to blogging. The kids are now seven and a half.  They are in first grade and doing amazing!!!  We have chosen to keep them all in the same class for awhile. They have their own friends and don't rely on each other too much so keeping them in the same class hasn't been a problem. Plus it's easier on me. I only have one teacher to work with. 

 Miss Ma'am loves to write and enjoys writing her own books. Maybe we have an author in the making. She is very creative and loves imagination play. 

Little Man wants to know how the world works. If he can take it apart he will. He is very curious about all that is around him. He is also our mathematician. I think he will know his multiplication facts before he gets to 3rd grade. 

Big D is our compassionate one. Most of the time if he is willing to give up what he has to help someone else.  He loves to read as well. He will pick up a Magic Treehouse chapter book and have it complete in one afternoon.

The past several years I left blogging to raise these beautiful triplets, go to grad school, teach, be a wife and learn that God is in control of it all.  I am excited to be back!!!! God is bringing me into a new phase of my life and preparing me for a journey of gratitude and I want to share that with all that know me.

    For years I was smiling on the outside putting on the picture perfect family when we went out. Mind you I have an amazing family so it wasn't too difficult, but I wasn't feeling full. My heart and my actions were empty. I have been in a season of winter waiting anxiously for spring to arrive for several years.

     This past fall I went on a journey with some dear friends at church to refocus our lives and live in a way that pleases God in everything we do.  It was a time of renewal for each of us and brought us closer together as women of God. From that study I began to feel the snow melting and God changing the season of my heart. 

     This year I have the pleasure and honor of guiding a study for the women in our church over Ann Voskamp's 1000 Gifts.   This is going to be a learning experience for me as we go through this study. I am challenging myself to find my own 1000 gifts in the year 2015.  I want to know what it is to be content in all circumstances (Philippians 4:12) and I believe this begins with being thankful. Thankful in the lean times as well as the abundant times.

     As I blog about our ever changing lives my goal is show how I am thankful for the newness and changes.  Each week I will post some of my thankful moments here, on twitter, and facebook following the Joy Dare from Ann Voskamp's website. http://www.aholyexperience.com/ 

    I look forward to walking in a new relationship and new season with God. HAPPY 2015!!!!