Catch up

So I originally started this blog to help me record my life. Well, like most of my journals in the past 5 years, I have a lot of catching up to do. Like all of our summer vacation, how we celebrated our anniversary on the wrong day (yeah, that will be a funny post), my life with three kids, how jackson is growing, Livy's second birthday, Jackson's baby blessing, ben's scuba trip, our cruise to the caribbean with my married siblings (Taylor you should've pulled the trigger and gotten hitched before that trip, because you missed out big time!!), Thanksgiving, christmas, new years, fun times with the Rotars and other Fremont Eyres, volleyball this season, trying to enjoy Ben's calling as a seminary teacher and support, rather than get frustrated, and all the little moments I am trying to soak in wiht my kids. So maybe my new year's resolution will be to catch up on life! But for some reason I don't think that happens often, so my new year's resolution this year is:
Discipline.
Most of the time i like to set one goal, and then set smaller goals that are going to help me reach that goal, but this time I think I am going to keep it general.
Discipline.
Ben had to give a talk last week from the General Conference report on Moral Discipline. I think it was Elder Christoferson. On our drive down to gilroy we talked about all the different aspects of Moral Discipline and how the tiniest acts of discipline transfer so heavily into your life, other's life, and even into your community, state and Nation.
So my general idea of Discipline this year is discipline in my time-using my time wisely (so I don't feel like I am constantly having to catch up on life), discipline in my scripture study (which can be a trickle down affect from time discipline), discipline with my exercise (also an effect of time), discipline in my speech (always being positive and looking on the bright side), discipline in my finances (keeping to my budget more precisely), disciplined with a sleep schedule, and I think I can go on and on. But the general idea for me is that I need to be redevelop the characteristic of discipline. I used to be so disciplined as a student and athlete. But it is easier to be disciplined when it is only you you have to worry about. So I am going to try to get back some of that discipline I miss.

So this year I am going to try to be more Disciplined with myself so I can be better able to help others, mainly my children, my husband and my family and friends. And I am hoping that if I can master discipline in one area, it will have a trickle down effect into other aspects of my life.

So here is to a new year of being disciplined!! (And hopefully I will catch up on all the stuff I want to record for 2009, so i can print this into a book and it will really be like a journal.)