2013: I don't even know where to begin! A year that started out wonderful and exciting, turned scary and helpless....but never HOPEless! I've never felt more loved by my Savior! I know His love hasn't changed, but my perspective has. During times that I should have been falling apart, He held me together, and gave me hope. He gave me people from all over to love, support, care, and pray for my family! I definitely had moments, many of them, that I wasn't as strong as I felt like I needed to be, but He was so clearly carrying me through. I learned a lot about patience, and waiting on Him. His plans are better than mine, His ways are better than mine, and He can even grow a baby way better than I can - anywhere. He doesn't need me - I need Him! I need Him more than anything because He gives me everything.
I learned (more than I already knew) that my husband loves me unconditionally and will fight for me and our sweet boys while protecting my heart as much as he can. He always knows what is best for me, and wants what is best for me when it counts the most.
I learned that my family and true friends are more awesome than I ever knew because they still love me and check on me even if it seems as though I've fallen off of the face of the earth and haven't been great in return. That's some good stuff.
I've learned the love of a mother, which there are no words to explain. I'm just grateful for the opportunity to be a mother to our sons. (I still can't believe God trusts me with two at once!)
I have been incredibly amazed and blessed by ALL that this year has brought into our lives, and while I wouldn't have planned it all the way that it played out, I know that there is a purpose and a plan for it and I pray that good will come from the miracles we have witnessed this year! Not just for us, but for others...I have already been given all that I needed and wanted with two healthy babies at home. I pray their lives will be a blessing to many and that they will learn to love The Lord with all of their hearts!
With ALL of that said, I must say, 2013 has actually been the best year of my life! I have been given so so much. Thank You, Lord, for it all!
