Highlights of 2011

I love looking back on a year and thinking about all the wonderful things we as a family have seen and experienced. It just reinforces to me how blessed we all are and how fortunate I am. This year has gone very quickly- almost too quickly. The years seem to slip by very quickly when you have children. I can't believe my eldest is two! It just seems like yesterday that I was holding that positive pregnancy test... and now I have two beautiful young daughters!
The highlights of 2011 for me have been;

We welcomed our second child, another baby girl, into our family in April.

My husband found a job that he loves and enjoys.

I started blogging in May- I love being challenged to think and write about my life and what I hold dear to my heart. Thank-you to all those people who have supported and encouraged me!

My beautiful sister got married in November to a wonderful man- I am overjoyed to see how happy they are together.

I have 'settled-in' more this year to our new town that we call home. I have loved meeting new people and joining new groups.

I was Matron Of Honour twice! (All in one year, yes a little 'ouch' to the wallet but incredibly honoured and thankful)

What a wonderful year. I'm excited and encouraged to see what 2012 has for me and for my family!  If you haven't already 'looked back' on 2011, I encourage you to take the time to do so now... the new year is very close. 

Oh, and if you think you are alone by having more 'crappy' things happen in 2011 than good ones, then you are wrong. I could make a very long list of things this year that have been very hard. But that's not what this blog post it about. I am choosing to focus on the positive and leaving the negative behind. After all, there will always be negative things going on in our lives... the happy ones deserve our attention!

"Your attitude can take you forward or your attitude can take you down. The choice is always yours!"
Jimmy Catherine Pulsifer

So... let's choose to move forward and *charge into 2012  

* (I was thinking Arsenic & Old Lace- a Cary Grant classic)!