I’m not really one for new years resolutions, reflecting on the past year, or generally being sentiment about going from December to January. However, I do like to loosely plan things at different points in the year and in this post I’ll talk about a few of them I hope to achieve, preferably by this year (God willing).

For the three of you who regularly follow this blog, you would have probably picked up on the fact we’ve been struggling to have a baby for the past few years and even has a miscarriage last year. 2020 is when that will all change. At the end of last year we found out Hannah was pregnant and this time we’ve actually seen the baby, and its heartbeat. Well, we’ve seen a scan of our 7 and a half week old baby but I have no doubt we will see them face to face this year.

I’m about halfway through editing the second draft of my book and I’m hoping to get it finished towards the end half of the year which means I can start reaching out to publishers 😁. I have a few in mind. Curtis Brown Creative is one of them and Knights Of the other. I’m not planning to make lots of money from this so if no one wants to publish it then I’m more than happy to self publish, or even just put it somewhere online for free. It’s been fun writing and editing this book on my journeys back from work and I have some more ideas all in the same universe as Crimson, which I’m super excited to work on.

Something else we’ve had fun doing is working on our game Scales. I would say it’s about halfway done now and we’re planning to release it around, you’ve guessed it, this year. Again this isn’t something that will make us the ‘big bucks’ but we’re planning to use the knowledge from this to make something better.

Last and most importantly 2020 is a year that God has given us and although it’s good to have goals and personal projects, it’s more important for us as Christians to share the gospel whenever and wherever we can. I’m looking forward to sharing my faith with new non-Christians and the talking points that lead on from that. Having socials and meaningful discussions with my church family. Seeing how God changes the hearts of many others to be more like his, including my own.

Ollie