Happy New Year!

It’s almost impossible for me to put into words what 2010 has been like for me. But if that was true then this post would end here…and ya’ll know how much I love to write (LOL, ROFL, LMBO …Lisa that’s for you.)

There’s a song with the lyrics “the more things change, the more things stay the same.”

That’s what 2010 was like for me.

I started out the year loving a baby so much it hurt. Now, I have a toddler who’s talking (in English, Dora Spanish and Kai-Lan Chinese…I keep telling her she’s talking the wrong kinda Asian but she doesn’t listen…), running, laughing, getting ready to start “school” aka Mother’s Day Out, but now I love her more…but it still hurts. It hurts my heart watching her grow. It’s pangs of joy that make my chest feel a bit heavy as I hold back tears of joy as I watch her reach a new milestone. It’s that bittersweetness of motherhood as I watch time pass much too quickly in the life of the daughter who teaches me everyday that love is a gift.

I started out the year with the fear of a starting a business that I always dreamed in my mind and hoped for. Now I have a business, in Zen Baking Company (a bakery based in Dallas, TX that specializes in gourmet cake balls – we’ll have you sayin’ “Cupcake, who?” – hey…anytime I can market my biz…I do eet). I’m still scared. I try to pray it all away – the fear that is. I praise God for the way He’s blessed Zen. With the opportunities He’s given us to be featured on The Cooking Channel, putting is in Central Market, online sales, the prospect of a new retail space. And with the New Year, the ideas He’s placed in my servant’s head of getting clients who seem unreachable, ideas of service to use His blessings to touch the lives of others who need it – ideas that seem impossible – but yet I’m reminded “With people this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Matthew 19:26.