I've come to a couple of realizations in the last week or so:
- If I don't like something, I should change it (if I can). A few times in the last week I found myself getting edgy about the chaos in the house. So what did I do? I closed my book (ahem) or stopped whatever else I was doing, and started singing the clean-up song! Hello. It was like a revelation. Pathetic, I know. But honestly, sometimes I just let things get under my skin (rock, rock, rock, while thinking about how all the mess bugs me) instead of being proactive and pulling out the vaccuum. No use putting off for later what I can clean right now if I need to!
- I live for sunshine. Those cloudy overcast days give me the most horrible temptation to drag my feet about life. Therefore (I've redetermined) I cannot live in places that are forever overcast (like the upper northwest). I glory in the sun shinning through my windows!
- Exercise is essential to my soul. Really and truly. I have been racking my brains out for the last four months trying to figure out how to get more aerobic exercise. In the winter. With two small children. Without a double stroller. (Anyone want to donate a double stroller to the cause? Just kidding. Kind of). My current solution? Disco music and everything I can remember from the aerobics class I took in college. So far so good!
- Life for me is plain no good if I'm not getting good scripture study in every single day. I'm more grouchy. I'm more irritable. I'm more down on myself. I was in a really super great scripture reading routine before Ginny was born. It's been a scheduling challenge to get it back to where it needs to be. I'm getting there.
- And (not a new revelation to be sure) I really hate life decisions. We had really really hoped and planned on knowing where we were going to go to law school by the end of March. It's still looking fuzzy and the deadlines for deposits creep steadily closer! The dart-board method is looking pretty attractive. I almost don't even care anymore. Almost.
And that about sums it up, folks. Today the sun in shinning. I got aerobic endorphins. My house is semi-clean. I've been watching
the Young Women Broadcast. And all is well with [my] world.
(And I've been giving my babies exuberant amounts of kisses. Nothing better than a squishy little cheek to make life worth living!)
7 comments:
Hey if you go to exercise Tv online they have TONS of free exercise/aerobic stuff. I did them a bit before we got the treadmill and its really nice. Heres a link to one that Nick got for me. It Helps!
http://www.exercisetv.tv/workout-videos/body-sculpting/20-minute-sweat-workout-5065
You could also go on a walk with Ginny in a baby sling or moby wrap and Raymond in the stroller. I feel for you being stuck inside for so long. I was dying those first 6 weeks when Delia was a newborn. And amen to everything else you said, like the necessity of scripture study. Good luck with the life decisions!
I just love you Carly Jane. Love you. (and that last picture is so cute of Raymond's face while you two kiss him...crack me up cute). I am glad the big life decision is finally made. Happiness to you! (And your cute family)
i second the moby and the stroller. i actually have a double but its so much nicer to just pull out the umbrella for kade and the moby or mei tai for amanda!
Good luck with the life decisions. We are really at a turning point too but cant even really think about it much because Ronnie is in Afghanistan and thats really distracting. sigh
You know what's funny is the sling and single stroller is usually the way we go. But walkign is my MOST FAVORITE form of exercise and I like to really walk (fast), which is why I think I would really like a double stroller someday. Ginny in the sling makes that harder. plus it's harder to bundle her up as well in the sling (for these last few cold months) and will be SO HOT in the summer months. Sigh. I need to keep checking craig's lists!
thats what I love about the moby is you can bundle them really good in it and as long as you wear a big coat you can zip it up around them and its wonderful! and you can walk fast with it too :)
I just have Angie (the 2 year old) walk. That might be a little harder with a younger one, though.
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