2011...is this the future or something?

Happy New Year from me and the bird!

New Year's Resolution #1:  Teach Stella to kiss with her mouth closed.

I received an e-mail from my friend, Laurel, a few days ago; she was watching an old episode of "Mad About You" in which they were celebrating "Welcome to 1990" on New Year's Eve 1989.  I graduated high school in the year 2000 and, throughout my childhood, my teachers often talked about how great it was that we were the first class of the new millenium.  It's now 2011:  I've been married for five and a half years, I am about to turn 29, and I have a baby...but part of me still feels like I'm in high school - or even younger!  

Here are some of my hopes for the new year:

• Family:  I'd like to refine our goals for the future of our family.  Will we have more children?  Adopt?  Foster?  I am pretty sure we will welcome more children into our life, but we haven't decided how or when that may take shape...ultimately, we need to seek some direction from God on this area of our life together.
• Spiritual:  I'm reading through the Bible again this year.  Stella and I made it through the Gospels and will start on the rest of the New Testament tomorrow.  My friend, Heather, and I will read the Old Testament.  The last time I read through the whole Bible in a year I was in college, so this should be a good refresher.
• Home:  I'm hopeful that we'll have a clear sense of what we're doing when it comes to our house and the future of where we'll live.  We hope to sell in 2010 - God only knows the plans are for our future, but I look forward to someday living in a place with sidewalks, access to a downtown, somewhere much closer to our church, and a place where we can grow our family without having to move again.  
• Physical:  I'd like to Zumba my heart out in 2011!
• Marriage:  Tim and I want to pray more together (three times a week is our goal) and we are already looking forward to this year's Marriage Retreat at the Wolfeboro Inn.

I'm hopeful God has great things in store for 2011!  Maybe one of those great things is a minivan...just saying...