Wordless Wednesday - Miss Emma

January 2013 #3in30 goals

So I'm back at it - trying to create new habits, get things done, monthly, with weekly updates.  

Presenting my January 2013 #3in30

1.  Drink more water. Yes that seems vague and it is.  I don't actually know how much water I currently drink other than when I'm at the gym but it should be more.  That I know.

2.  Climb Mt. Everest.  Okay well not really...not the real Mt. Everest.  I have a laundry problem.  I hate doing it.  Any part of it.  My wonderful husband blesses me LOTS by doing the lugging it to the basement, washing it and lugging it back up to our room part.  However, l have to put it away.  It usually sits in buckets/baskets or all over the floor until someone wears it.  We call the pile of clean laundry Mt. Everest.  Sadly, even the kids know what it means.  So my goal here is to put it away once and for all.  Just a little bit each day for now until its gone.  Then when my sweets brings up any clean laundry my goal will be to put it away right then and there.

3.  Blog more. Again, vague.  Again, purposely vague.  I haven't blogged in a year.  I would like to blog at least a few times a week to get back into the habit.  I enjoy it. And most of the time I have all this stuff floating around in my head I'd like to get it.  Unfortunately for you, its going here...fortunately if you like to read my rambles...your choice.

My One Word 2013

Do as little as possible, as well as possible.

I came across this somewhere and it really struck a cord with me.  Last year I toyed with the one word idea but couldn't really commit to any one word (in hindsight I probably should have went with commitment!).

I do a lot.  As do many people.  However, I recently starting realizing the quality of what I was doing started to get diluted, less meaningful.  I was doing things hurried - to just get it done - so that I could move on.

That's not fair.  To me. To the things I was doing.  To my family.  

I want to start enjoying what I'm doing just a little more.  Take the time while I'm doing it to stop, look around and smile.  Instead of feeling hurried...anxious...I want to feel peace with where I am, what I'm doing at that moment.  

I want to do fewer things, better.  I want to not feel guilty about saying no.  

I want to bring quality to my life - all across the board.

I want to be able to stop and whisper, remind myself - quality.

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Whenever God closes a door he opens a window.  Or so the saying goes.

 For a kid, that is a hard concept.  Growing up I was afforded many opportunities.  As a teenager, hard choices were made by me.   I was given many second, third, fourth chances...OPPORTUNITIES. 

I'm sure I know somewhere along the way one of those opportunities most likely saved my life. 

When you are an angry, resentful teenager you just don't get it.

When you are content, happy and 30-something-year-olds you do.

 I'm thankful everyday for the blessings in my life.  My husband, my kids, my step-kids and yes, even my ex-husband.

I'm also thankful for the people in my life back then for giving me the opportunity to have the life I live now.