2015

2015 was a hard year.

mentally, physical and emotionally.

this was by far the hardest year as yet for our family.

we were tested to our full capacities.

but because of this we learnt a lot of lessons.

i grew wiser as an inidivudal,

as a couple we strengthened one another and stood up when the other was ready to give up, 

my family became my rock.

i was extremely happy to see the back of 2015

but i am grateful for the person who i have become.

this year we sent our first born off to kindy, our little bracky started preschool,

the boys did swimming, soccer and t-ball,

we flew to new zealand and queensland,

we had family holidays to canberra and the snow for the first time,

we discovered our love for camping and the beach,

we fell in love with The Wild Pear for breakfast,

makai received an award at presentation day and received his first principals badge,

i found out what i wanted to do for a career,

jevan become a qualified chartered accountant, 

zayden began walking and talking,

braxton found his soul mate,

we moved house and wards - twice.

i got to tick a whole lot of things off my bucket list

- my favourite being paddle boarding.

the boys found our how exciting body boarding is.

we did the colour my rad run.

the list could go on and on.

as i reflected at how terrible this year was and still yearned for the great 2014 we had,

a quote came up on Facebook that i felt was exactly there for me to read.

" I plead with you not to dwell on days now gone not to yearn vainly for yesterdays, however good those yesterdays may have been. The past is to be learned from but now lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the ashes. And when we have learned what we need to learn and have brought with us the best that we have experienced, then we look ahead and remember that faith is always pointed to the future. To Yearn to go back to a world that cannot be lived in now, to be perennially dissatisfied with present circumstances and have only dismal views of the future, and to miss the here and now and tomorrow because we are so trapped in the there and then and yesterdays are some of the sin's of Lot's wife." 

Elder Holland

this quote has been the slap across the face i need to let go of the then's and to embrace the now's.

i know the best is yet to come.

2016 is looking up !