New Beginnings

That is a funny title... New Beginnings - are there OLD beginnings?  I'm not sure.  I guess you can THINK you are starting new but really just be doing the same thing again and again.  Who knows -- that's not really what this post is about - just what goes through my mind... no wonder it's hard to get anything done!


Anyhoo - who says anyhoo?  Oh boy... it's probably good I haven't written anything for so long....


I know that it's the MIDDLE of the 1st month of the new year, but I FINALLY have some resolutions... goals...aspirations....whatever you want to call them.... here goes....in no particular order.

REDO THE HOUSE

I really like this house -- even though Bobby built it to be a rental and it has NO closet space -- I'm good with that and now that we have our brand new garage and STORAGE space in the loft of the brand new garage - yipee -- I have somewhere to store all of our junk treasures.  HOWEVER, it's time to give our little house in the woods some charm.  LOTS of charm.  Oh, I have so many ideas - where to start.... maybe the kitchen!

ORGANIZE - DECLUTTER

This is a BIGGIE but it's going to be done...goodwill and ebay - here. I. come!  And hey, the dumpster will be full up!  This one is going to be a doosie.  I can't believe that I have saved EVERYTHING.
Every. Single. Thing.

Since Bode was born -- all their clothes, toys, magazines, artwork, e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g! SO SAD!

So very very sad.

NO MORE YELLING

Seriously...

who yells at their kids for yelling? 

who has lived her life incredibly scared of being yelled at but yet yells at her own children? 

ME

and let me tell you -- I am smarter than that!  I really am.

starting now -- RIGHT NOW -- let's all take a breath.  BREATHING is GOOD!

namaste (or whatever you say at yoga class -- I failed yoga class)

So there you have it.  I'll start with 3.... more might put me over the edge.  I have to start somewhere.

Even though I have these "resolutions" I really just wanted to have a mantra this year - a word to sum up everything (I hear it's the thing to do this year -- and I'm all about following the cool people). I'm WAY to wordy, chatty, etc. to have ONE word, but I pick BREATHE.  Breathing is good. Breathing can keep you calm.  Breathing means you are alive...that you are thriving. So I pick Breathe.

So, I am going to follow suit with my not so on time self and start now, the MIDDLE of the 1st month of the new year.

Oh - and I really do want to make every moment cout and enjoy life's simple pleasures and take more pictures and really play with the kids more and give and get more kisses (I'm pretty good at this already, but you really can't get enough kisses!) and keep up with the paperwork better and excercise and lose a bunch of weight and eat healthier and read more books and go on more dates with my mister and.....

 Wish me luck!

Here's a picture of the lovely Avery in front of our little home in the woods when she was about 3 years old.

just because.

love.....Mona