2016 beginnings

I love the new year, I get excited and set huge lists of goals and get calender's and planners and all those things and I love it.
This year is the same my mind is swimming with goals big and small and ideas, but this year I am going to try to find and overarching word, and a big main goal to focus on.
 I have tried to put some study and prayer into this. The word I choose is :

Trust

I almost choose other words like, embrace or accept or enjoy- wanting to make sure I enjoy and accept my life and the stage that I am in but in the end I choose trust.

This year is going to be a great exciting year, but also a hard one for me (I suspect). This year Mitchell adds yet another job to his to do list, teaching online for BYUI. I am so proud of him but it does take time for him that would usually be spent with us. Also as his Master program continues it will take more and more time and effort. I need to be supportive of these things- and I am.
Biggest of all is us adding a new member to our family in may. This will be the biggest blessing and it will also be hard for us. Babies take a lot of time and sleep from mom, I have a hard time with sleep deprivation and after my last sweet baby I struggled for well over a year with postpartum depression. I am hoping to prevent that. We plan to continue to watch baby T next year even after the baby so I will have 3 kids, 4 during the days.( Baby T will be walking soon too!)
 AS our family embarks on these new adventures it is important for me to have trust. Trust in the Lord, Trust in my Husband and trust in myself. Mostly Trust in God and his plan. I know that if I have a firm testimony and faith and trust in the plan and the Atonement of Jesus Christ then our little family, and myself can get through anything. The biggest part of that is knowing that even when horrible or hard things happen God can bring about good from it.
I really hope that this year brings nothing but joy to us. I am so excited for us to have another baby and for Mitchell to get further in his Masters program and to have all the new career opportunities that he has, I am so excited for Eli to Start Kindergarten and for Kayden to go from nursery to sunbeams. I am excited for K to learn to ride a bike like his brother, and for our family of 4 to grow to 5. To update the house and to learn new things. We have a lot of fun ideas and plans in the works and it will be so fun to see many of them come to completion. We have trips and vacations planned and ideas and goals for our family. It is exciting!

Other goals are :
Daily Scripture study - family, couple and individual
FHE
morning prayers -(we are pretty good in the evenings)

and my "mom" theme for the year is to LOVE.
L-listen
O-observe
V- validate
E- encourage

I suspect that with a new baby coming and school starting in the fall these things will be more crutial then ever.