I just wanted to write three quick things that I want to improve at:
I want to be a more involved aunt to Jason and Addie's kids, my wonderful nieces and nephews. I want to put it on my calendar once a month to go pick them up in Waterloo and take them out for bowling, a museum, the library, ice cream. I used to love living in Waterloo and taking our Godson, Tommy, to Four Queens, pizza, hockey...
I want to be a better communicator with friends and family. I need to make myself take time to call our friends the Barimacs, whom we loved when we lived in Davenport, and to catch up with our Godson, who is now almost an adult.
I want to be better at sending Birthday cards and visiting people on holidays. It makes me sad that our friend, Doris, who we deliver Meals on Wheels to, didn't have visitors on Christmas because of the weather, and that nobody helped her put up her Christmas tree or decorations. It saddens me how few people at the nursing home are visited and how much money is spent in our school and church on unnecessary beautification instead of for altruistic purposes. It would have been a much better use of money to build another hope home for troubled youth than to use it (whether it was donated or not) to build an electric sign or an addition of coat closets and fancy tiled floor. I pray for our friend's son who fell on Friday, for my friend, Stacie and her husband whose dad past away on Friday, and for the safety and health of the people of Haiti. I pray that I do a good job in planning the benefit event, The Market, in April to raise money and used musical instruments and art supplies to bring to youth in need. I pray that I keep a pure heart, have positive relationships with my coworkers, and am the best mom and wife I can be.
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