The New Year

The New Year makes many of us reflective. I know that there are many things that I could have done better in 2009. I can actually say that I left 2009 in worse shape than I started it. I could call it my year of " I should have kept my mouth shut". That pretty much sums up the year.
This year I have plans to leave 2010 in better shape. I am learning to keep the "mouth" shut and to let things slide by. Not an easy task for an opinionated person,but I am making progress. I want to leave 2010 knowing that I was a better wife/mother/homeschooler and friend. I would like to read one inspiring book a month. This month I am reading " Alicia: My Story" by: Alicia Appleman-Jurman. This is a "Powerful,intimate,searingly impressive memoir by a uniquely courageous and unusually intuitive young girl of the Holocolst nightmare and the years following."
This book is a must read for those that love history. I would even venture to say that it is more powerful "historically" than The Hiding Place. This book took me right out of my "poor" me mentality that I have had for a month or so. I love a book that can change who I am and what direction I am going. This book did that for me. The mountains that I have to climb this year look a little easier after reading this book. Alicia's mountains were huge,but she managed to climb them and she managed to become a better person when she reached the top. I think I can do that,too.

Blessings,
Jeanie