Hope in the Hopoate Family

I definitely love a fresh start. Every week seems like a new start for me.  We are now officially into the Fall of 2022 and I feel another new start has arrived. I am excited about changing my workouts because I can't keep riding my bike and swimming outside anymore. I am excited about trying out different workout classes at the local gym for the cold season. I am excited about putting my summer clothes downstairs and bringing up my sweaters and boots. (We have a very small closet so we have to do this lol.) I am also so excited about the change of pace that happens in the winter. So many things are changing now. I think everything around us constantly changes and has new starts for a reason. I think God put it into the world to show us something. I believe it was to show us that repentance and change should happen IN us, personally, and that it should happen often. We aren't meant to just be the same people. We need to make mistakes, repent and change. We are to try new things...

      So I'd say I'm a pretty typical mom who loves being at home, but can breakdown and be overwhelmed by all of it. I have good days and I have bad days. I'd say I have 80% good and 20% bad and almost always those bad days are due to lack of sleep or lack of routine lol.     Well I was having a particularly good day and working hard and getting things done when I took the time to be grateful it was a good day. I stopped and thought about my bad days in the past and was so grateful to be experiencing it all. I was so grateful to think how much I had overcome personally and how much adversity Malachi and I have overcome as a couple.      I decided to take a picture of the moment.     I was currently at one of sons sports classes. He was enjoying his class, my daughter was playing with some of my sewing supplies right next to me, and my baby was in  child watch having a blast on the slide. It was so good. I was fixing up a tie o...