A word for 2013

What do you desire for this year? If you had one word to sum up your hopes and wishes for this new year, what would it be?

Love....Happiness...Family.....More.....Less....Tacos (?) 

Many of the bloggers I follow have come up with some pretty good words to bring in the New Year.
Like:

EMBRACE {My Blessed Life}

       JUNE {The Lettered Cottage} - signifying their adoption process, check out her Word link party


 My word is:

                

It's not necessarily that I'm discontented with my life because, in all honesty, I have a really good one.

 

 

 I have a faithful and devoted husband

{who still has the hots for me after 7 years and 3 kids!Whoop-Whoop!}
 

I have 3 stinkers for kids who keep me on my toes but have great hearts.
 

 I have an awesome family, both here and far away, who are there for me through all circumstances and who love me for me.
 

We don't worry for food, shelter or clothing.

 

 

But sometimes, the grass is a little greener on the other side.
 

Moments like...
 

When in the throws of parenting, I'm carrying a child who is has is claws out and is wriggling like a cat about to be thrown into a pail of water to his room for time out because the process of doing a simple puzzle was too much for his little brain to handle and has chucked a puzzle piece in frustration at my head....it is in those moments discontent takes a firm grasp and makes me cry out for something better, something easier, just something...else.
 

When I am trying to sleep while trying to sleep train the screeching spider monkey in the next room who has forgotten that he is the "good one who knows how to sleep". As he is screaming my blood pressure rises, I am faking sleep while feeling like I'm hovering over the bed in anticipation of the change in his cry that tells me that something may actually be wrong {like a leg stuck between the rail}just to finally hear silence and relax for all of 2 minutes...when it all starts again. Those nights {and the following morning} discontent slams me upside the head

 

 

When all I want to do is eat my breakfast in silence like the good ole days and not have to worry about the needs of some little person next to me who is demanding more milk in her bowl or a different flavor of cereal, while the spider monkey is spitting out the food I am trying to shovel into his mouth while he is giggling at his brother who is lapping up his milk like a puppy and continues to say the word 'Poopy" and then dramatically laugh at himself. It's easy to despair and think of times gone by when life was all about me.

 

 

When all I want to do is take a sledge hammer to THAT wall and reno the kitchen. But things keep getting in the way. {Like the fact that the whole roof may fall down if I actually do it.}

 

 

When my toe finally breaks through the end of my boots, that have done me well for 3 winters but are now about year out of style, and I look over at the stylish college girl a few rows up in church who has super cute boots, {which fully contain her toes} and the "if only's" needle their way in.

 

When discontentment needles in, I have to remember that I have been immeasurably blessed and God's biggest treasures come in small packages.

 

As Paul, in his epistle to Timothy said:
 

But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it ~ I Timothy 6:6-7
 

So I am going to practice Contentment this year.

 

 

If we can't make the kitchen reno work for this year, then I will be content with what I have (and make what I have beautiful) 
 

If the kids act like a bunch of wild barbarians in the grocery store and one part of me wants strangle them but the other part of me just wants to curl up in a ball and pretend none of it exists...then I will be content and remember that they are a blessing and are only little for so long.
 

If I can't get that new pair of boots and my toe peeks out the end of my old ratty ones...then I will sew up the toe, throw on an extra pair of socks to keep that one toe warm and trudge out into the snow.
 

My goal is to keep life beautiful, simple, full of gratefulness and in a closer walk with God

          ....that is Contentment to me!


I would love to hear a word that you hope defines 2013 for you!!

Love,
Kat