New Years Goals!

Happy New Year everyone! Hope you all stayed safe and had a fun new year! Thinking back on 2014, and boy was it crazy. It started out amazing. I had a nanny job that I loved and I was able to support myself some and I was finally feeling more independent in life. I did Kids Hope and loved that, I was helping out at church and doing things at church from time to time. My mom started a new job. Life was good and was coming together and I really had no major complaints. Heck, we even survived one of the nastiest winters in Michigan, in my lifetime. Then spring rolled around. My nephew, Jackson, was welcomed into the world! I love that boy to pieces. I had a cousin who got diagnosed with potential Ovarian Cancer, but then we saw God work a miracle and it was found the tumor was benign and there was no cancer! How amazing!! But then, at the end of the school year, I was told I was no longer needed as a nanny for the kids I was watching. At that time it wasn't a super huge deal, because I thought I had a potential for some other things that all ended up falling through. Then my mom got a second job, but she also started to have a lot of problems with abdominal pain and chest pain as the summer went on. I then had another nephew welcomed into the world, 5 weeks early, by the name of Cody! Again, such a sweet boy and God worked miracles and he is currently a completely, perfectly healthy little boy. I got my nose pierced! Then my mom had to have her gall bladder out, and we thought that would be the end of my moms pain and we would just be able to move on. But then on October 23, the day of her surgery, life came crumbling down on top of me, and we found out my mom had Stage 3 Ovarian Cancer and that is why she was having so much trouble, it wasn't just her gall bladder. And this last chunk of the year has been rough, but God has been doing great things already. All in all, it has been a crazy year, and I have discovered some personal goals that I have for 2015!


First off, and most importantly, I am going to stick by my mom's side and we are GOING to beat cancer! We will fight this and with God guiding us and holding us the whole way, we WILL win and we will walk together in a cancer survivors walk. Next thing, I am going to find a job that I am happy at and is the place where I feel God is calling me to be and where I feel I am making an impact. I want to be able to support myself more again and not rely on my parents. And most of all, I want to make my family proud of me. I want them to see me to my full potential and to see the kind of person I can be. And I want to show them that I will be ok in life. I want to work towards my simple dreams for my future. Next thing I want to do, is I want to approve my physical health. Although the thing I really want to do to improve my health, I may have to wait on for awhile. But I hope in meantime, I can start doing other things like going for walks more, maybe doing my workout games I have, or just lift weights. Just some simple things like that. The other HUGE thing I want to do in this new year, is I want to work on my spiritual journey more. I want to improve my faith walk and become and much better and stronger woman of God. Overall, I want to improve my quality of life and be the woman God is calling me to be, and do better at doing things to my full potential. I want people to be proud of me and not worry about me. I want to prove to people that there is more to me than meets the eye. I want to be valued more.


All in all, I am looking forward to 2015. I feel like God has some big plans for my family, my mom, and myself. I feel like this is just going to be good year. I definitely don't think it will be a easy year by any stretch of the imagination, I do think it is going to be tough and it is going to be a long journey. But God is so much bigger than any struggles, so I feel with God on our side, we will get through this year and everything will turn out just fine in the end. God is good all the time, and all the time God is good!


Hope you enjoy following me in this crazy an insane journey! Thank-you all so much! Comments are always welcome! Have a Happy New Year and enjoy 2015!! It's going to be a good one! God is going to do some big things! I just know it! :)

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