Well, so much for trying to write on a regular basis! Well actually, if you snuck a peek at my diary, this would actually be pretty amazing, seeing as though I would sometimes go 365 days or more between writing. OK, so I am doing great!
I should be in bed but I'm not! Today was a good day. Started my day in the typical Friday way...Stroller Fitness with dear friends. Picture it: 15 or so moms in a local store, pushing strollers of 1-2 children each, all doing a serious, sweat-inducing, hard core kickboxing workout, while periodically reaching through a punch to deliver a sippy cup or some cheerios, or jumping out of set of lunges to redirect one of the children who are not contained in the strollers from drawing on or hitting or sitting on one of the other children! Whew...tired just imagining it?? I have been doing it for (yikes!) 4 years now but I realized how we must look a few weeks ago when a woman who was shopping GOT OUT A CAMERA AND PHOTOGRAPHED US! Needless to say we were less than thrilled. But I guess it is a sight that most people don't see every day!
After Stroller Fitness we headed to our post workout lunch...always interesting with 4 children. Now that they are getting older, we are actually finding it possible to TALK on occasion. Who'd have thunk?! Then after some blissful quiet time while the little ones slept (or at least remained quietly in their rooms) we had some more wonderful playtime with some other friends. We went to one of those children's play places that are so WONDERFUL! Really, what could be better than a warehouse that is cleaned daily and contains a multitude of jumpable, slideable, and climbable sturctures and can wear out even the most energetic of children? And this one has some wonderful safety procedures so even on a fairly busy Friday night it is possible to sit down and allow your child to be out of your sight for 10 minutes or more without going into a panic about where they may be at that moment! Truly, these places may be God's gift to tired moms! Follow that up with a fish fry (for me!) and wonderful, God-filled conversation at dinner with dear friends, and you have the makings for a wonderful day.
A little icing on the cake was coming home from all that fun to find I had NOT missed the opening ceremonies for the 2010 Winter Olympics and getting to watch, in awe, the beauty that someone out there imagined...it was STUNNING! I would SO have loved to have been involved in the planning of that event. Someday.... It is, after all, one of my two dream jobs. Oh, I could never even have imagined something so beautiful or elaborate. So my job will not be creative director. But to plan even one piece of the Olympics, and be one of the many players involved in putting on the elaborate event that is the Olympics, will hopefully be a job I get someday. Not anytime soon...but someday!
So, with that, I really need to get to bed. I have a lot to accomplish this weekend. It is time to get a bit more serious with some of those goals for the new year. Things like working out and doing a little makeover on my diet. I read this week that Food is Fuel, and we should make choices on what we eat based on that principle. OK, got that. It's makes sense. But now I have to figure out how to get myself to make choices on my food based on it's potential as fuel and not based on the fact that I just want more chocolate (or ice cream, or peanut butter cups)!
Until next time, with love and grace!
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Monday, January 11, 2010
Time for a change
A new year brings new hope for me. New hope at doing better in 2010. New hope of feeling better, of new opportunities, of renewed grace. I have been thinking about my "resolutions." Mine aren't so much things I want to accomplish this year, like lose 30 pounds (which I should) or eat more vegetables (which I also should) but rather things I want to be this year. I want to be grateful for what I have, for what I don't have, and for every thing that has led to this moment. I want to be healthier. I want to play more and enjoy more. I want to spend more time getting to intimately know the ones I love: my family, my hubby, my kids, my friends, and my God. I want to document our lives better. As a scrapbooker, I know that our tendancy can be to get in there and "Start at the beginning." But the problem with that is when you do that, sometimes you never get to the now. So I will being at the now. And, with some luck, I might tell the story back to the beginning. And if I don't, I will be grateful for what I did get to tell!
I don't really know why I am doing this. Except that I used to write in a journal. And with the addtion of a husband to my life and then two beautiful children, that has all but gone away. Who has the energy to write in a journal at the end of a day when you feel as if you have barely made it through? Tomorrow, I would say. And then one day I would open up my journal and realize that 365 tomorrows or more had passed and I hadn't written a word on how I FELT about all those many moments in between. I have plenty of drama filled journals of my youth for my kids to read someday. Actually I am not sure I would let them read some of them. (Have you ever gone and read through your teenage journals. Oy!) But since that isn't who I am now it isn't really the person about whom I want them to read. So, I thought I would give blogging a try. Someday my kids can read this and see what was going on in the head of that lady they call mom. And since I am always on the comptuer anyways, I think this will be more natural for me to do (and faster since I can type faster than I can write!! My fingers can almost keep up with my brain!).
So, welcome to my blog! I have lots of ideas for what I want to post, but I am going to take babysteps. It might be about my kids, my day, my household organization (or lack thereof), my MOPS group, my friends, my family, couponing, scrapbooking, stained glass, my deep desire to go somewhere tropical and warm this winter, cooking or baking, or any number of other things us moms try to do! I don't know if anyone will read this! But if nobody does, that is OK. Then my husband will get insight into the mind of his wife, and it will be there for my kids to see when they get old enough. And that will be enough for me! Yeah for 2010!
I don't really know why I am doing this. Except that I used to write in a journal. And with the addtion of a husband to my life and then two beautiful children, that has all but gone away. Who has the energy to write in a journal at the end of a day when you feel as if you have barely made it through? Tomorrow, I would say. And then one day I would open up my journal and realize that 365 tomorrows or more had passed and I hadn't written a word on how I FELT about all those many moments in between. I have plenty of drama filled journals of my youth for my kids to read someday. Actually I am not sure I would let them read some of them. (Have you ever gone and read through your teenage journals. Oy!) But since that isn't who I am now it isn't really the person about whom I want them to read. So, I thought I would give blogging a try. Someday my kids can read this and see what was going on in the head of that lady they call mom. And since I am always on the comptuer anyways, I think this will be more natural for me to do (and faster since I can type faster than I can write!! My fingers can almost keep up with my brain!).
So, welcome to my blog! I have lots of ideas for what I want to post, but I am going to take babysteps. It might be about my kids, my day, my household organization (or lack thereof), my MOPS group, my friends, my family, couponing, scrapbooking, stained glass, my deep desire to go somewhere tropical and warm this winter, cooking or baking, or any number of other things us moms try to do! I don't know if anyone will read this! But if nobody does, that is OK. Then my husband will get insight into the mind of his wife, and it will be there for my kids to see when they get old enough. And that will be enough for me! Yeah for 2010!
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