"Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!"
-Tony Robbins
It's been nearly a year since I've sat down to blog. My surroundings are different. My family has grown. Yet I'm still sitting on the same couch, squished between two half-naked toddlers, dying to show me something repulsive, fighting me to change the channel because I've picked up my laptop and am doing something that resembles "Time to myself". With the only exception of doing all that, and using a free foot to rock Alex's Rock N' Play.
What's in a Year?
(One of the reasons I quit blogging. Thanks Liam)
What is a year? 365 days, chances, to wake up and be a New person. Better, worse, just different. My life is immensely different and I didn't even see my life changing right before my eyes. My little Lion (Liam) turned 2, learned to talk and potty trained himself. He's become a little artist and can spend hours drawing on his doodle pad. Leah started Pre-school, and being the stubborn girl she is was also FINALLY potty trained, and is feistier than ever.
And most recently, we welcomed our precious little boy, Alexander into the world.
Four days into this new opportunity called 2014 and I remain resolutionless. I'm still neurotic about cleaning up messes that will be there, again 10 minutes later. I got another hair cut WAY shorter than I could handle. I yell too much, and still pray every night before I go to bed that I haven't ruined my kids.
With that being said, I have around 10,000 things to resolve.
But this year, as silly as it may sound, I resolve to not set myself up for failure. I resolve to Laugh more, ignore the mess. Read to myself, read to my kids, and Roll my eyes less (You're welcome in Advance, Bill). I'll take more walks, let my kids stay up late, and sit down to color instead of finishing the dishes right away. I will lose that 5, 10, 20lbs of baby weight hanging around, but more importantly I'm going to feel better, and think more highly of myself. I make no promises, but I'll try to be the wife my Husband deserves, and the Mom my kids need. Because the only thing I can truly resolve to do; try.
"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years"
-Abraham Lincoln
