2012 New Years Goals

Here at the Homestead goals for the year 2012 have been made, both personal and joint. We believe at this time of the year it is time to reflect back over the past year and consider things we can change to improve the new year.

One of the largest goals that was made had to do with the structure of our daily life. As the days grew colder and nights came sooner we soon began to comprise our daily structure. Nobody wanted to drag themselves out of bed or even do a fast clean up of the house. We all just wanted to be like our family pet, our potbelly pig named Sissy. She loves to eat, visit her box and then onto her bed to snuggle down under the blanket.

However even Sissy likes to change the rules and routine during these colder months. If we are not careful Sissy will act like she is off to bed until nobody is watching and there she goes. The first couple of times she left her bed it took us hours to find her. Now we have her hiding spot located and she gets caught every night as she crawls her way under Victoria's blankets. However that is not good enough. Sissy gets under the blankets and then turns around to get her head upon the pillow next to Victoria. Of coarse Victoria is happy to help out as she puts her arm around Sissy and off to sleep both of them will go.

So even though Sissy can be lazy, we can not become lazy. It is important in our old fashion large family we have to follow our schedule extremely close. If we want to start our next day off bad then be sure to go to bed with a dirty house. Everything will fall behind and for some reason I become an Old Grouch!

With all the goals each of us made for our New Year, we have found two goals that we have done in the past and recognize the benefit of making sure to keep this goal is to each of us. This goal is to have our personal devotion and pray both morning and night. Even though we do this as an individual we like to also make it our goal to have a morning time devotion because it helps us to remember our focus is the Lord and showing Our Lord's love through our actions and through our lifestyle.