I'll Be in Trouble

Well, it's Sunday evening and if I don't blog I'll be in trouble with my husband. Yes, I was surprised to have him ask me to please update by blog because he already knows just about everything I do before I write about it. He says that while he is waiting for patients to get numb, he likes to read family blogs. In fact, like many, he feels like he has gotten to know family members much better just by reading all the blogs. So I'll try to get back on the blogging wagon, it isn't because I didn't want to, I just chose to use my time in different ways last month and I don't regret a minute of it. December was wonderfully busy, it may take me a month just to write about it. But I'm not going to start that tonight, instead I'm writing down a couple of ideas I have for the new year.

First of all I love my sister Kelly's regular post entitled "Things I Love on Friday's", I wish I had thought of it or I wish I could copy her idea. I especially liked her last comments on the year 2009 and reading the things that she is grateful for. Check our her blog if you want to see a cute mom and a wonderful, kind, and honest person. I am going to find a way to regularly share my joys better. Truly, I want to write them down for me, so don't feel obligated to read. (All two of you - haha). I just finished reading These Is My Words and related so well to Sarah, the main character. At the beginning she keeps a journal very regularly but as life increases in busyness, as more children arrive, as the need to help others surpasses her personal desires, her journal entries first decrease and then become random, spaced out by months and even years. I understand, it isn't that you aren't doing or feeling things, in fact the feelings seem to intensify with age, it's that you have so many "to do's" that writing about them gets lost and you have to try to remember them in your heart.

I also just discovered a blog (turned book) called The Happiness Project. It looks interesting to me so I may share more of that as I look in to it. I feel like I have so many answers to the qustion of how to be truly happy; but I'm interested to see how others, especially those without the Gospel, find it or what they learn in their journey.

OK, so I'm at least back on the blogging band wagon, Matt will be so pleased. Stay tuned for more regular posts.....I hope.