Happy last day of 2014, friends! This was a heck of a year for the Gaddie Family. Disney trip, a three year old, kitchen remodeling, basement remodeling, news of a fourth member being added to the Gaddie household. What a great year! Leaps and bounds above how I felt about 2012 and 2013. I was thankful for a year full of (mostly) good news, finally.
So, here I sit. I can hear the bells of a New Year ringing in the very near future. My mind, naturally, is on resolutions. Just for fun, I decided to go back to my post this time last year to see if I actually accomplished anything I set out to do in 2014. I resolved to be a better Christian, save money, organize my 28th and Hudson business, organize the basement, feel better about myself, to single-handledly bring back snail mail, finish my furniture redos, keep my house picked up, and to keep up with my blogging. Whew. I'm exhausted just reading that list. In an ideal world, this would be the part where I tell you that I did all of these things and more to fulfill my resolutions. But this is real life and I accomplished some of these things. I wish I could tell you that I was a better Christian this year. But a tragedy happened in our community, to a family I barely know, and my faith hasn't really been the same since. Hopefully I'll get brave in 2015 and talk more about my struggles, but I definitely failed this year. Marty and I did do better with budgeting our money and saving. I didn't organize my 28th and Hudson business, because I ended up shutting the business down....for right now. Talk to me again when I have my own super organized craft room and am able to go to my very own space to craft again. Our basement is getting organized because we're finishing it, and I'm getting my own craft room, Avery is getting a playroom and Marty is getting a space for all his junk. Almost as good as the craft room? We're getting an area for storage. I'm envisioning walls of shelves for all our stuff. It's going to be glorious. I don't feel any better about myself. Same story, different day. I did send more snail mail in 2014. I didn't finish any of the furniture pieces I wanted to. Keep my house more picked up? I just laugh at that one. My house is always a wreck. Right now, I'm blaming it on being pregnant and miserably sick. After that? I don't know what my excuse will be. Keeping up with blogging. I started out really great, and ended up taking a two month break from blogging. That's the way it goes I guess! Accomplish some things, fail at others, don't beat yourself up for the ones you don't do.
So, in 2015, I resolve to not make any resolutions.
Of course, I have goals I would like to accomplish in 2015. But this new year is bringing us a new baby. There's absolutely no telling what I'm going to have time or energy to get done in the new year. I can't say that I'm going to start crafting more or be a better housekeeper or read more. In 2015, with a 3 year old and a newborn, I may be lucky to just keep my head above water.
Instead of resolutions, the Gaddie family is going to do a "Blessings Jar."
When we make resolutions, they have a way of making us feel bad about ourselves when we look back at our past year and think about all the things that we didn't accomplish. I'll be honest. When I looked back at my January 1, 2014 post, I was disappointed at myself for the things I didn't get done. Ergo, no resolutions. Instead, we're going to make a "Blessings Jar." Idea from this awesome post my sister shared on Facebook. Every time a good thing happens to one of the Gaddie Three (soon to be four, God willing), we will write it on a piece of paper (reality: Mommy will end up writing it on a piece of paper) and stick it in our blessings year.
When December 31, 2015 rolls around, we'll open up the jar, revist our blessings and marvel at what a wonderful year 2015 was, filled with blessings.
I smell a new tradition in the making. Happy New Year, y'all!
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