Renovate

Last year I had a word of the year. I didn't know it was a real thing...I just keep getting this one word in my head...I don't remember what the word was but I think it was something along the lines of "contentment" I refuse to look it up because I know I didn't follow the advice all year.  I know know if I'd considered that word something from God that would help me all year, it would have!  

So it's probably a beginning of the year thing, but sometime in February (it took all of January for me to realize I should have listened to last years' word).  Note that last year, we were trying to get an 1880's nearly 3,000 sq ft house which would have helped fulfill our dreams of growing our family and also doing foster care.  But it all fell through (super long story) and so we just unlisted our house last week or so because our future we were certain of (apparently forgetting we are humans) is a little fuzzy now.  Anyway, the new word that's been on my mind is Renovate.  When I say on my mind, I don't think it's random, I think it's something positive that God sends me way.  (Sorry, I'm one of those.)  Soooooooo - renovate took me a while to swallow.  But it's a positive moving forward and taking what you have and making it new and different.  It's exciting and a grand alternative to sitting in our possible misery while we wait for the next, literal, move.  Which is what we already started doing in January without planning it!  We pretty much changed most of what we were doing, rather how we were doing it...and started over.

We're at our third "at bat" with the Dave Ramsey snowball plan (www.daveramsey.com).  Another thing we are excited about.  I keep trying to justify a vacation...but we're not there.  We have so much, stuff.  If we renovate...it means appreciating what we have, getting rid of what doesn't work, and only adding what makes things better.

Oh, and I'm liking the complete bareness of this white blog.  But maybe, by the time 2016 rolls around...I'll be ready to renovate that too.