Dusting Off The Blog

Wow, it's been so long since I've visited my own blog that I couldn't remember at first how to use it!

So here's the story: My blog is "Choose Joy Today" and I said that I would write about joy...get the picture why I haven't been around the blogosphere lately! 2009 was about the most chaotic year of my life. Just when I thought I had re-grouped, I had a dance with depression at the end of the summer. And then my father-in-law had a life or death medical crisis that ended with a last ditch effort to fix his heart with a very dangerous surgery. Fortunately, he made it, and he is doing great, praise God! But I just haven't been able to bubble up the joy.

I have been itching to write again. I can't promise how frequently it will be, or how joyful it will be. So you can read it, or pass on it, your choice. I'm on a journey to reclaim my spiritual joy, so I'll be writing about that along with all of the yuck that will probably go along with it.

2010 also promises to be a year of lasts and firsts for us...a year of lots of changes. Mallory is graduating, so we are in the "lasts" right now. So far we've had our last "first day of school," I've had my last "back to school night," I've probably chaperoned my last "class trip." We've done the last fall play and we are now on the last spring musical. Pretty soon we'll be shopping for the last prom dress.

The "firsts" haven't really begun yet, I'm just focusing on the "lasts" for now. But looming on the horizon is the fact that I will be out of the job I've held for 21 years...full time mommy. Like I said, lots of changes.

Consider this the introduction to the next phase of "Choose Joy Today." I know there will be some tears, and hopefully there will be laughs along the way too! "A cheerful heart is good medicine..." Proverbs 17:22