2024 Word in Review

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Well it’s officially 2025 and I am still figuring out my word for the year.  But it’s hard to look forward until you’ve looked back so let’s finish out 2024.  My word for the year was Embrace.  It was another big year for our family as we all entered a new stage of life.  My children became aunts and an uncle, we became grandparents, our parents became great grandparents and our daughter and son in law became parents.  Obviously, it’s the best thing ever becoming a grandparent! I know people tell you that but until you experience it yourself, there’s just no explaining it.  Besides being a mimi, I also get to do mimi daycare a few days a week.  I love it!  We have a great time and the best part is, she’s as extroverted as I am.  We are gonna have some great adventures this next year and I can’t wait!   Embracing this new role really was the biggest highlight of 2024!  Thank you Lord for the blessing of grandchildren.

Something that I didn’t share much on my blog but needed to happen was embracing change with my mental and physical health.  Maybe it was stress, maybe some hormone issues, my thyroid, getting older, a combo of all of it?  But somehow, I gained quite a bit of weight the past two years despite eating relatively healthy and walking with some strength training mixed in.  I started 2024 weighing the most I have ever weighed even with four pregnancies.  Now I know, weight is just a number on the scale but it was much more than that.  I went to the doctor in January because I did not feel good.  I was tired, I was probably a little depressed, I didn’t feel like myself, I wasn’t sleeping great, I had a host of different issues.  We tried some supplements and it did help a bit, magnesium being the biggest game changer.  By May I was over it and so I told my hubby we were going to do Whole 30 to see if it would change some of our habits and maybe help me figure out if I needed to cut out some foods.  June 1st was game on and by the end of the month, I knew it was exactly what I needed.  I embraced some changes in my diet, including limiting and trying to avoid dairy as much as possible. I still don’t eat much in the way of grains, even gluten free grains, rice and oatmeal.  My body just doesn’t love it.  But I do know my body LOVES salad and steak.  My lunch most days is a salad and it makes me happy.  The changes in my mental and physical health over the past 6 months have been so refreshing.  I feel SO much better!  Honestly, I didn’t realize how crappy I felt until I realized how good I feel now.  I’ve embraced a more whole foods diet and I’m so thankful!

Something I really wanted to do living in Minnesota was embrace winter.  Well, jokes on me, we had the mildest winter ever this year.  I think it snowed less than 10 inches total all winter, it was actually pretty pleasant as far as the temperatures and I walked almost everyday.  A few times I even sat outside and enjoyed the warm winter weather.  Somedays I had to put on another layer but I barely wore my winter jacket.  If you geek out over weather, you may like reading about what the DNR called The Lost Winter of 2024.  So far, this winter isn’t quite as lovely although we’ve not had a ton of snow so far.  I have still been trying to get outside to walk and  I find the fresh air to be refreshing.  Again, embracing winter was pretty easy, especially when you have friends and puppies to walk with.

While I was working on embracing the truth of who I am in Christ and who He is, I completed the New Testament Bible Recap Plan and did Practicing the Way study by Jon Mark Comer with some friends.  Such a great book and study, I highly recommend it.  Our faith journeys will always be a work in progress so I will continue to embrace the process.  Somedays and maybe some years are much harder than others but God’s faithful even when.

I definitely think this year of embracing was quite lovely all in all.  There were a few things I had on my list that I didn’t share here that I am going to carry into 2025.  I won’t be leaving embrace behind but it will be more of a partner with my next word.  I find that I still remind myself of past words from time to time, the lessons I learned or maybe things I’m still learning.  Having a word for my year has been one of my favorite things I have done for myself.  Even better, blogging and journaling about my word has been so rewarding as I read back on posts and am reminded of different things along this journey.  Honestly, I am so thankful God gives me these words to focus on each year.

Honestly, I also look forward to the process of choosing my word every year, along with reflecting on the past year and thinking ahead to the new year.   So here we go, my next blog post will be about year 11 of choosing my word and I can’t wait to see what God tells me it is!

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