Welcome 2014

Wow, it has been a while since my last post. Not a while, a year! I cannot believe a year has blown by. Well my 2014 goal is to blog often, at least once per month. I enjoy doing it, I find it therapeutic, easy and just fun! Hopefully I can inspire and be inspired. Remember Life is too short to be anything other than positive!! So here are my Goals for the year ahead:

1) GIVE 'ER A GO AT HOMESCHOOLING!
Well 3.5 years ago I remember sitting on my couch thinking how far away the decision was to whether or not I wanted to send my kiddos to school or to keep them home and homeschool them. Needless to say to any parent out there, those 3.5 years flew right by me, and here I sit with one of the most important decisions I will ever make. Do I take my child's education into my own hands? I have done the pros and cons and am still sitting on the fence, just don't know how much longer it'll hold me ;) So, I have decided that beginning this upcoming week we will become a "trial home" for homeschooling. I'm not going to lie, I am terrified of the unknown and my ability to teach my child, but I know I CAN DO IT!!
 

2) BECOME A TOTAL YES!! MOMMA:

I have always had the desire to be a YES mom. Now, don't go of the deep end thinking that I will be one of those parents who say yes to everything, that is certainly not what I mean. I want to be a mom who allows their kids complete freedom as long as safety is followed. I want to let them destroy my house and not have my OCD scream at me until my ears bleed. I want to allow them to try new and exciting things even if it makes me nervous for them to try the first time. I want them to ask me: "Hey mom can we take out all the pots and pans and make a band?" and I want to be able to answer: "YES!!!!" without flinching or thinking of noise or mess, but rather focus on the fact that we are only kids once, and I want to make the best memories a child can ask for!

3) BUILD MORE AMAZING FORTS: 

 How exciting was it as a child to build a fort inside your house? To gather as many blankets, pillows, flashlights, books etc. as you could and totally let your little imagination run wild. You literally could be anywhere, you could be hiding from the bear outside your cabin door. You can be anybody you want to be. And for those couple of hours all you worried about was keeping that darn fort from tumbling down. I want to find my inner child with my kids. I want them to experience the great art of fort building. I want to forget all the non sense of being an adult and just get lost in my fort! Well my kids fort that is ;)

4) SAY GRACE.  We are a Christian family and yet we do not practice what we preach. Yep, that is right, we are hypocrites! You heard it hear folks. In all seriousness God is super important to my husband and I and thus we would like Him to be just as if not more important to our kidlets. Now I don't want to pour all my beliefs all over my kids so that they grow up resenting me, rather I want to inspire them to ask me questions, to be curious and to be open minded. So from here on out in this house, we pray, give thanks and forgive even when forgiveness is hardest thing to do. We live by our principles and are non hypocrites from here on out!!

So that about covers my main goals this year when it comes to my family. Hopefully I can actually meet them and come back on here in a year and know I have made my little family of four all that much more awesome!!