The Best Time

I know I don't write enough, but I can't let this year get away without reflecting on how much I have loved it.

I didn't type a newsletter this year because I didn't feel like I had big things to report, but I have come to realize as I have reflected these last few days about this year and things to come next year....that I am actually having the best time of my life.

I quit doing Real Estate altogether in 2011 and it was hard because part of that decision was based off the fact that there just wasn't enough business and I wondered if I had failed, but I also realized that I was at a crossroads and found the demands of my family always conflicting with the demands at work.

Economically it has been tight, but the reality of the matter is, it's also been the best. I am so glad I have had the most important thing with my kids, and it really is TIME.

That's what a year really is isn't it? A measurement of TIME?

It's been a hard time sometimes. There really are a whole set of skills that you need to get along with little children all the time and not go crazy when nobody listens to you all day, but I love my kids and as I watch them grow, I'm constantly aware they will soon be gone.

It's time for me to go back to school in 2012, and although part of me looks forward to it, I know that it will take a lot of my time, and I know where that time will come from and it makes me just a little sad, and a little grateful for the time I have had this last year. Maybe it is the biggest blessing in the world to have time with your children.

I watched a good friend my age run out of time this year, at least time here, and I never knew anyone appreciate it so much and be so grateful for it. I have spent some time this year thinking about life, I'm grateful to have Time to think about that and Time to learn from such a beautiful person. I miss you Krista.

I'm really grateful to Heavenly Father and his plan of Happiness. I know he has given me the blessing even when I'm not entirely convinced, but I know he wants us to be happy and our families are the way we gain it. I'm grateful for the one I have grown up in, and right now the one I have. I'm grateful for my TIME.

Love,
Stacy Zamarron


Here are some pictures of my blessings.



All my little brown heads together, coloring a piece of the cardboard castle they all got from us for Christmas.


Christmas morning


Sledding at Expo park just by the church parking lot....the extra kid sledding is Sam Doty.


Isaac making his angel.


On the carousel at Bass Pro Shops.