New Year's Resolutions...?
You know how everyone always asks, "So, what is your New Year's Resolution?" Ugh, you hate that question too? My response this year is the same as every other...to enjoy every day as it comes. That will include drinking more coffee, drinking more water, eating healthy food, enjoying my sweets occasionally, exercising regularly, but most importantly loving on the people around me more. Even if I can't stand them....that's going to be the hard one. But let's be honest here. It's always hard to try to love on people you don't like while still being true to yourself and not letting yourself get walked on. It's a fine balance, isn't it?
You know that people always say "you should be able to love on your kids always". Yeah, those people never had kids. Yes you love your kids unconditionally, and without fail, but that doesn't mean you like them all the time. For example: Right now I'm sitting here attempting to type up this post and Sam is fake crying at me. The moment I stand up, she's happy. I sit and she bursts into fake tears screaming at me. I love her to death, but at the moment I'm typing and glaring at her. Thankfully when mommy glares the tears stop as she knows a spanking is next if she doesn't behave (though those don't seem to be effective much anymore, time to think of something new). She's generally a pretty amazing kid, but man does she push boundaries. And in every which way possible, even ways I didn't think were possible. Then again, she's my kid. Well at least she comes by it honestly. Clay is pretty happy but for the moment he's a little mad at me for not holding him, even though he's fed, changed, and we snuggled most of this morning before his sissy got up. Oye, the things we mommies do to try to keep up with our kiddos. That's going to be my biggest challenge this year, loving on my kids and having lots of patience with them, even when I'm beyond exhausted and just want to give up for the day and try again tomorrow. Thus the more coffee, and the learning extra patience.
What about you? What challenges do you face this year? What will the new year bring into your life and how can you learn from it? How can we grow more into the people that Jehovah has designed us to be? How can we extend that growth to the people around us? All good questions, ones that hopefully we will learn together as we go into this new year. So, huzzah to the things we learned last year, and cheers to the things we will learn this year. Good bye 2016, Hello 2017!
You know that people always say "you should be able to love on your kids always". Yeah, those people never had kids. Yes you love your kids unconditionally, and without fail, but that doesn't mean you like them all the time. For example: Right now I'm sitting here attempting to type up this post and Sam is fake crying at me. The moment I stand up, she's happy. I sit and she bursts into fake tears screaming at me. I love her to death, but at the moment I'm typing and glaring at her. Thankfully when mommy glares the tears stop as she knows a spanking is next if she doesn't behave (though those don't seem to be effective much anymore, time to think of something new). She's generally a pretty amazing kid, but man does she push boundaries. And in every which way possible, even ways I didn't think were possible. Then again, she's my kid. Well at least she comes by it honestly. Clay is pretty happy but for the moment he's a little mad at me for not holding him, even though he's fed, changed, and we snuggled most of this morning before his sissy got up. Oye, the things we mommies do to try to keep up with our kiddos. That's going to be my biggest challenge this year, loving on my kids and having lots of patience with them, even when I'm beyond exhausted and just want to give up for the day and try again tomorrow. Thus the more coffee, and the learning extra patience.
What about you? What challenges do you face this year? What will the new year bring into your life and how can you learn from it? How can we grow more into the people that Jehovah has designed us to be? How can we extend that growth to the people around us? All good questions, ones that hopefully we will learn together as we go into this new year. So, huzzah to the things we learned last year, and cheers to the things we will learn this year. Good bye 2016, Hello 2017!
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