Happy New Year's!
Good Morning Girls! Or should I say Happy New Years Girls! No, I have not lost my mind (not completely anyway). I say happy New Years because for me, the first day of school seems more like New Year's than the real New Years does. On January 1st we are just coming off of Christmas and we are exhausted from the whole experience. Our kids are home and are claiming they are bored (despite the pile of new gifts), and we are trapped inside with sub zero temperatures and nothing to do but eat stale Christmas cookies. To me, that is not an environment conducive to achieving new goals.
Aaaahhhhhh.......but the first day of school.... The first day of school is different. By the time the first day of school comes we are actually getting bored with the whole "summer thing". We have no desire to build a sand castle or let our kids bury us in it. We do not want to pack or unpack another beach bag. We don't even put sunscreen on the kids anymore because it seems like too much work. We are sick of eating breakfast at 10am and dinner at 8pm. The lazy free schedule that we so desperately craved back in March is now making us feel a little flighty and lost. We are now craving a little structure...and dare I say even a little discipline.
So take advantage of this moment (because it will pass quickly). This is the perfect time to set up a new routine for yourself. The school, the bus company, the gymnastics class, the swim lessons, they all tell us when we've got to be where, and we somehow make it all work- even when we are wanted in two places at once. We are given a new fall "line up" just like the tv networks. Hopefully we have a good balance of comedy and drama- with no "Jerry Springer" moments.
So plug yourself in to this years line up. Schedule in that bible time, exercise time, prayer time, cleaning time, or whatever it is that you know down deep you are in need of. Establish yourself in your new routine now because once you get going it is much harder to add something in. If it proves to be too much, you can always take it out, or put it in another "time slot", but trust me when I say: if you do not do it now, you will not do it 2 weeks from now. You will wait. You will wait and you will say "I will just wait until New Years". And then, when New Years arrives, you will have that whole sub zero, exhausted, stale cookie thing going on.
So Girls lift your coffee mugs and let us toast to our New Years! This year we will discover and air the "lost episodes" instead of playing the same old reruns. What do you say? Can you find 30 minutes for yourself? You may just find yourself feeling renewed!!!!
Colossians 3:10 Put on your new nature(and your new schedule), and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him
Happy New Years-
Jen
Aaaahhhhhh.......but the first day of school.... The first day of school is different. By the time the first day of school comes we are actually getting bored with the whole "summer thing". We have no desire to build a sand castle or let our kids bury us in it. We do not want to pack or unpack another beach bag. We don't even put sunscreen on the kids anymore because it seems like too much work. We are sick of eating breakfast at 10am and dinner at 8pm. The lazy free schedule that we so desperately craved back in March is now making us feel a little flighty and lost. We are now craving a little structure...and dare I say even a little discipline.
So take advantage of this moment (because it will pass quickly). This is the perfect time to set up a new routine for yourself. The school, the bus company, the gymnastics class, the swim lessons, they all tell us when we've got to be where, and we somehow make it all work- even when we are wanted in two places at once. We are given a new fall "line up" just like the tv networks. Hopefully we have a good balance of comedy and drama- with no "Jerry Springer" moments.
So plug yourself in to this years line up. Schedule in that bible time, exercise time, prayer time, cleaning time, or whatever it is that you know down deep you are in need of. Establish yourself in your new routine now because once you get going it is much harder to add something in. If it proves to be too much, you can always take it out, or put it in another "time slot", but trust me when I say: if you do not do it now, you will not do it 2 weeks from now. You will wait. You will wait and you will say "I will just wait until New Years". And then, when New Years arrives, you will have that whole sub zero, exhausted, stale cookie thing going on.
So Girls lift your coffee mugs and let us toast to our New Years! This year we will discover and air the "lost episodes" instead of playing the same old reruns. What do you say? Can you find 30 minutes for yourself? You may just find yourself feeling renewed!!!!
Colossians 3:10 Put on your new nature(and your new schedule), and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him
Happy New Years-
Jen
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