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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nNow that all of that is out of the way, I’d like to talk about this New Year.<\/p>\n
I’ve seen on more<\/a> than one<\/a> blog<\/a> the concept of choosing a word to define your year, and the more I thought about it….the more I liked the idea.<\/p>\n I have read in a lot of different places how 2009 was seen as a horrible year for many for a variety of different reasons. While the last quarter of 2009 is a little fuzzy or blurry in my mind, there are so many good things that have happened to us last year and I don’t resent 2009 at all.<\/p>\n January – We started part-time at the Life Center. So, see….2009 was actually pretty good to us. <\/p>\n Looking forward, I have a GREAT feeling about 2010. I think that this year is going to be an amazing year for us. I originally thought about the word HOPE….there are so many aspects to this word that I think apply and really would be great for our family, BUT……it just didn’t sit completely perfectly with me.<\/p>\n The longer I thought about it, the word I was most excited about was….<\/p>\n Here are some definitions of expectation, expectancy and expect….<\/p>\n 1. anticipation, hope Having just come through Christmas and being able to watch my kids on Christmas morning while they HOPED for certain things was amazing. To see the EXPECTATION on their faces as they waited for a present to be handed to them, and them to see the EXCITEMENT that the ANTICIPATION of finally getting to open that present brought to them was……well, it was tangible. You could feel it in the air and in the energy that they exuded as they wiggled and bounced and finally in their cheer when they RECEIVED something that they had HOPED for. <\/p>\n I just have this feeling that 2010 is going to be a great year. I am confident that good things are going to happen. I can’t explain exactly what I mean by this, but I believe that this year will be full of excitement, blessing, health (I’m throwing that one in there…the power of positive speech and all<\/em>), stability, etc….I just really feel like we’re going to be able to look back on 2010 and say to ourselves, “WOW! What an AMAZING year!”<\/p>\n I’m really looking forward to this new year and also to living up to the word “EXPECTATION”. I want to expect good things from life. I want to teach my kids to expect good things. I’ll also teach them to deal with the rough things that come along the way, but you can learn to see the silver lining in the middle of all of those dark stormy rain clouds that might come your way. I want to be a person who sees the positive in things FIRST, and to not have my first response always be a pessimistic one. I want to learn to HOPE a little more than I currently do.<\/p>\n I want that child-like EXPECTATION not only in my life, but EVIDENT in my life.<\/p>\n I’m excited to see what this new year brings and I’m expecting that I’ll be able to look back and be so pleased with how things turned out when all is said and done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Okay, so I’ve still not gotten around to editing my Christmas Photo’s but hopefully soon……. And one quick thing about my post from yesterday – Every word I said was directed at me, to me, by me, for me and had nothing to do with you. 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\nFebruary – Does Valentine’s Day count???
\nMarch – Get Away to Harrison Hot Springs
\nApril – My Oldest Baby turned 12
\nMay – Approved For Mortgage
\nJune – Bought our First Home
\nJuly – Moved into our First Home & Celebrated 14th Anniversary
\nAugust – Family Holiday to Whistler
\nSeptember – Kids Love New School
\nOctober – Swine Flu (Hmmmm this one might not be a positive, eh?)
\nNovember – More with the plague….
\nDecember – Christmas counts, right? Actually we’re on Full time at Life Center, now.<\/p>\n
\n2. that which is looked or waited for with interest
\n3. the feeling that something is about to happen
\n4. looking forward to something about to happen
\n5. to regard something as probably or likely<\/p>\n