The first month of this
big year and I find myself anxious and a little overwhelmed. 2013 was a huge
year. Our family grew, our lives changed, our family was completed, and we
found our home and budget stretched to the breaking point.
I feel like this is a
year of re-focusing, of repairing. I could have chosen so many words for this
year: Center, focus, heal, replenish, thrive. But all of those words had a hint
of seclusion to them. Often when people want to heal or replenish, they hide
themselves away. They take time away from the rush of the world in order to get
back to center. But we had spent our whole year cloistered. New baby, no money,
and exhaustion combined to make doing anything but basic errands miserable. And
I feel the best way for me to repair from 2013, is to get back out and
experience what the world has to offer. I have big plans for this year, and
hopefully some fun, spontaneous activities I’m not even planning too!
We are spending January
recovering financially from the crunch of December. So we have very little
planned this month, and I thought it the perfect time to begin some small-scale
healing. I want to re-focus on my family and my husband.
C is an amazing baby.
She’s smart and vivacious and exhausting. Most days between her and her sister,
my husband and I end our day exhausted. Grateful for an hour or two between
their bedtime and ours to get things done, unwind, and relax. It doesn’t leave
a lot of energy for long talks, thoughtful exchange, or, well… you know.
This exhaustion has
leaked into all parts of our lives. I can’t show it at work, nerves are that
more frayed at home. Kids get snapped at, my husband gets guilted for not doing
enough while I was gone. I haven’t been having the best experience at home, and
I know it’s because of me.
So this is it. I’m
turning inward this month, before a year of outward. I want to repair some
mistakes, and be better at communication, patience and being present in the
lives of my children. I want this experience, because they will be grown in no
time at all. Most of all I want to let
go of my fear, and learn to love completely. I want my husband to experience my
complete and free love. And to do that, I have to learn to need nothing in
return.
Come on 2014, let’s do
this.
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