Amber posted about choosing a word to define her year and challenged us all to find a word of our own to define us in 2009. Instantly the word REDISCOVERING popped into my head.
As in:
REDISCOVERING: who I am.
REDISCOVERING: my faith
REDISCOVERING: my joys
REDISCOVERING: my future

Basically, I guess to me the word means to reavaluate exactly who Sandy is and what she wants to do with the rest of her life, mentally, spiritually and emotionally. I guess physically too.
I looked up REDISCOVERING in the dictionary and it isnt there. So I looked up DISCOVERING:
~to make known or visible
~to obtain sight or knowledge
~to find out

synonyms discover , ascertain , determine , unearth , learn mean to find out what one did not previously know. discover may apply to something requiring exploration or investigation or to a chance encounter.
ascertain implies effort to find the facts or the truth proceeding from awareness of ignorance or uncertainty.
determine emphasizes the intent to establish the facts definitely or precisely.
unearth implies bringing to light something forgotten or hidden.
learn may imply acquiring knowledge with little effort or conscious intention or it may imply study and practice.

I guess if you add the RE to DISCOVERING, it would just mean to do it all again. Maybe I have come to a point in my life where it is time to rethink somethings, and remember what is really important.

2009 is going to bring about some postive changes for my family. I hope that we can all REDISCOVER what makes us happy.