New Years Eve Blog.... I learned ALOT in 2011

Its New Year’s Eve... It has been an eventful year that’s for sure. It has been jam packed with supreme ups and supreme downs. I have learned a lot this year.

I learned that every bump in the road is really a lesson wrapped in a way we can understand it. I truly believe that God will not put me in a situation I cannot handle... I just have to realize how to handle it. Every situation I have faced this year I have been able to look back and go… Ok I get it now... lol 

I have learned to appreciate all the blessings I am given no matter how big or how small. Sometimes you are given something that you don’t realize how it will impact your life. I think its important to pay attention to small things like hitting all green lights on a long morning drive. To that person who let you get on the highway instead of sitting there waiting for the traffic to die down. It may not seem like anything but it is important.

I have learned that procrastinating in relationships can cause major holes and you may fall in the whole before you realize it’s there.  I tend to have tunnel vision and I have worked on that a lot this year. I need to see the whole situation not just what I’m comfortable dealing with. 

I have learned the phrase “ask God to help you with something and he will give you opportunities to deal with it”…. I like most other people wish that I could say Dear God I need your help with ______ and I could just go to bed and it would be done. But it is better the way he does it, just slightly annoying at times. lol 

I learned that I SUPREMELY suck at taking care of myself. I have gotten sick more this year than I think I have in my life… And I jokingly say one of the reasons God put Clay in my life is to take care of me. God knows he does a better job than I do… 

I have learned that my expectations for my husband are sometimes extremely retarded. I have a truly amazing man in my life but he is not perfect and will not answer everything perfectly and do everything exactly as I wish…. Even though sometimes that’s exactly what I would have expected. lol 

I have learned how important my relationships outside my husband and kids are. Before this year I did not really go out of my way to see my friends.  And yet I would expect them to go out of their way. I have really worked on being the friend that I want my friends to have, while I have not perfected the art form. I have really tried to forge and renew the relationships I find important. 

I have learned that even thought I have changed A LOT in the last 4-6 years I still have a lot to keep working on. Clay and I always talk about “old Katie”...  And how amazingly different I am from then. I think most of the people who knew me then would agree that I am an almost totally different person. And the people who know me now would NEVER guess how I used to be. But I tend to stick to …… “but if you saw me so many years ago.” I still have things to work on. Growing up how I did causes a lot of problems with certain thing and with God’s help and my AWESOME support system, and my own stubbornness. There may be a continuous better Katie….