New Years

Resolution Time! I'd like to think of this time of year as a step in the right direction! All to often we set our selves up to fail! Setting endless goals that fulfill one purpose... to make us feel bad when we realize we SUCK at keeping goals! I will say this...three years ago I set a lofty goal for myself. NO MORE SODA!!! And here I sit three years later still Soda free and loving it! So I guess I'm not a total and utter failure every year!

Ok.. back to my rant... So this year I've been Inspired. I was sent an email from a reader sharing her New Years Tradition of focusing on a single word as her goal for the Year! A Beautiful tradition. She concentrated on "Simplify!" It meant wonderful things for so many aspects of her life! If she could just concentrate on the word "Simplify" it would change so much!

I loved this idea. I was taken by it simplicity and yet knew it had the potential to do so much. Immediately a word popped into my head and I knew it would be my focus for the year!

Service

Selfishly I need to Serve others. It makes me feel good. It gives me something to do outside of my own personal responsibilities. I easily get lost in my own everyday hiccups I forget to look outside and see where I could better be utilized!

So I got so excited about the thought of focusing on a single word I had a hard time just picking one. Oops! Can you tell my other word is not going to be "Simplify!" I'm not there yet!

So this year I'd like to focus on three words or concepts if you will...

Service
Following Through
Home

Following Through will be a good one for me! I have endless good intentions but following through on them is the hard part...like doing laundry! Yeah...that whole process from start to finish takes me like 5 days! From now on..."Follow Through" will haunt my subconscious! A single days task! Can you imagine!

Planing, projects, activities! So many things that clutter my mind and my space will finally get the attention they so deserve!


Home! I need to work harder to make my Home the warmest most welcoming refuge my family will ever know! I need to make more of an effort to focus on it's purpose. To comfort those who dwell in it's rooms and inspire love and safety! To me that means editing the STUFF that I once called necessities and filling it instead with loving reminders of the things that are really important. It also means focusing on meal time, traditions, order and family.

So there you have it! My "New Years Resolution!" This year I plan on devoting much of my energy on Serving others, Following through on the intentions I make and creating a Home that is a Haven!


If you were to pick one word for your New Years Focus what would it be?

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So I'm brunette right now! Been for about a month and I have to say I'm in love with it!

No I don't feel smarter! And yes I'm still having fun! Look at Blue...Isn't she too much! I do feel like I look more like my girls though! I think they love it too.

"mom has our hair now Molly!" says Cricket! I can tell she likes it most. Blue and Charlie share my eyes and Crick has always been apart of the "Brown team!" I wonder if she felt left out of being any part of a team I was on! But now she does and I'm quite enjoying it!

I needed a change! I needed more so to give my hair a break! Too much breakage and drying it out! So for the next chapter of life I'll be a brunette!

Could it be?

Ahh yes! The return.

It was bound to happen...

I couldn't stay away forever....

yet at times I had nothing worthy to say... or did I?

I'm in some sort of place right now.

A state of unfamiliar feelings. I've been here for a while and the best way I can describe it is this:

I'm in a FUNK! YES people! A FUNK!

Not quite sure how to act, feel, move forward!


No need to worry! I've been in funks before! I actually welcome this odd sort of state I'm in. I'm up for the lessons it's teaching me and the journey I'm on.

I must have had it too good. I was stagnate and stale and in need of a life shake up if you will. I'm looking at things differently. I'm being honest with my thoughts. I'm sorting through the fog in my head.

Frustrating? at times.
Scary? not really.

This is life. I'm in the throws of MY life.


I have dear dear friends. People I love. People who I know love me. It's been inspiring to chat with my dear friends and sort through my thoughts. I love what I have discovered about myself, about motherhood and Spirituality. Thank you sweet friends. I needed that!

I'm aware of many things right now. I know who I want to be. Getting there is where I'm at.


I'm in the treading water stage of my life. It's not a bad thing....It's a working hard thing. These years are so important. Hard and important. I'm treading water trying to do it right, keep it up, stay in rhythm....not drowned. Treading water, treading water....

I'm happy for the struggle and the challenge. Treading water for so long isn't going to kill me. It will hurt and it will test my abilities but it will also do something wonderful.

It
will
make
me
stronger.


It will give me legs to hold me up. It will teach me patience. It will give me the power I need to do what I do.


I'll tread for as long as I need to. As long as it takes to make me as strong as I need to be for what may lie ahead.

Maybe I should look at it as being "in training." You would never run a marathon without ever lacing up your running shoes and expect to do well right?

That's it... I'm In training. And for what you may ask? For life I guess. For a life I love and a life I've worked hard at to enjoy!

So pardon my absence. No need to worry...it's just me. Here. Now... in training.

October!