I have to say, we did a great job this year...if I do say so myself. Thoughts of this blog and the quotes that I had found were never far from my mind, and greatly influenced me throughout the year. I found I was able to be more understanding of people and their situations. I also found I was able to love others more easily.
One of my favorite parts of the year was watching my children focus on being kind to others. Sunny has had a couple of situations this year where she was really frustrated with a few different people and we were able to talk about what she should do. How she should treat them, even though she was upset, and how she could help them, despite the issues that were going on. Watching her rise about her own frustrations and show love and kindness to others was amazing.
We have also focused a lot on kindness to those that are in much less fortunate circumstances than we are around the world. We continued our tradition of donating money to Reece's Rainbows, which helps with the adoptions of special needs children in Eastern Europe and China. We spent hours pouring over the pictures on the website and talking about the children as we picked the ones we wanted to help.
2014 was a great year and I am excited to continue in the New Year to teach my children (and myself) about what really matters in life and how to recognize that while all the distractions in life would have us focus on ourselves.
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