Happy New Year!

I just would like to wish every one a Happy New Year and to thank everyone for stopping by to read my little blog.  May God bless you all in this coming year.

Wow, have the last couple of weeks been busy!

• We spent a few days with my parents for Christmas.  It was a nice little visit and the kids enjoyed playing with their cousins again.  
• We had a mini Christmas dinner on the 28th at our house with hubby's mom, brother, and brother's girlfriend.  They brought even more gifts over and spoiled our kids.
• We had a lovely evening at a friends house for New Year's Eve.  Good food, fellowship and fun with three other families from our church.
• We have a virus or two floating around our house right now, so we are dealing with sniffles and coughs, but its not too bad.  I'm staying home from church this morning with the kids, I hate to spread germs around and I feel bad that we may have already done that at the party we went to last night.
• I'm trying to get my thoughts around it being a new year and where I want to go from here.  I'm a bit reluctant to choose a "word" for the year and to make many resolutions.  I don't feel that I can stick to things very well and don't like feeling like I have failed again.  :)
• I do have a goal for the next few months.  It started out this past summer, when I decided I was going to do something about my weight.  I was able to lose 24 pounds!  Yay!  BUT, then summer ended, the weather got cold, we stayed in the house a lot more, and I stopped eating well and exercising.  I have put at least 5 pounds back on again.  So here's where my goal comes in.  I want to get down to 140 pounds by my 40th birthday which is April 2.  So I have three months to lose just over 20 pounds.  That should be doable, right?  So my motto for the next few months will be:  140 by 40!