Simplicity

I am the only in the house awake.  I am not kidding.  Gracie just fell asleep on the couch next to her sleeping daddy.  Daisy and Harley are asleep next to my legs and behind my shoulder, respectively.  As I reflect on the last few weeks and year, I am suddenly struck by how incredibly fortunate I am.  I have a husband who loves me and our daughter, a daughter who makes me laugh daily, oh wait, hourly, and 2 dogs that drive me insane but I love them for it.  It.is.just.that.simple.  My life is filled with love.

Now the last few weeks has been anything but simple.  I have had to adjust to many things the last few weeks.  I have struggled with homesickness, frustration about our future (are we EVER going to move from El Paso?), changes at work, and a few other things that aren’t even worth mentioning.  As I have struggled with dealing all of the above, I have momentarily forgotten the simple part of my life.  The life I have been blessed with.  At the end of the day, no matter how frustrated I have gotten or how far gone the day went away from my plan, I come home to a beautiful, crazy little girl, a man who doesn’t care if I am happy or sad, he is just simply there, and two obnoxious poodles who are all excited to see me.  It.is.just.that.simple.  Explain to me why I let all the other stuff overwhelm that simplicity.

I have got to remember the simplicity of life, take a step back from everything else.  Taking a step back and living.  It.is.just.that.simple.

Vacation Hangover

Ok, I have never been completely or close to drunk before, but if a hangover takes this long to get over, I don’t want to have any part of it.  It has taken me two weeks to get even remotely caught up on things.  I have been just literally surviving night to night.  It has been virtually impossible to get the following done:

• My year in review post, I promise is still coming.
• My house just got back to it’s pre-holiday state.
• Laundry (is it possible that it keeps multiplying?)
• Getting the amount of sleep that is required for me to function!

But I am back on track, or at least as much as I can be.  Things are moving forward and I might as well go with it. 

As for our household, we haven’t been doing a whole lot.  We took Gracie to see Beauty & the Beast.  Belle is one of her favorite princesses so we had to go of course.  She is also doing great in tumbling.  Once she is able to get just a little more strength in her arms and she will move up to the next class.  I can’t wait to see how she does.  She really loves it.  I think we are going to do soccer again too.  She asked to, so we will see.

Well, we are out the door for a lunch out.  I will check in soon!

Welcome 2012

2011 was a year of change for us.  Matt changed jobs, I changed my mindset and learned about taking things one at a time, and Gracie went for being a toddler to a full blown little girl.  I am thankful for this last year because it taught me a lot.  I learned that life isn’t about the things you want or have, what you want for the future, or wishing you could change the past.  Living life is about living in the present.  If you worry too much about things in the past or focus too much on what MIGHT come in the future, great moments that are happening right now will pass you by.  In the last few months, I have let this little lesson learned fly right out the window because I was too busy.  Life is busy, but if you are missing life, then that is the first clue you have to slow down.  Life is way too precious to let it just pass you by. 

So for 2012, I am going to live in the moment.  Of course I am going to worry about the future, I have too, I am an Army wife.  But I am not going to let it consume me.  There are many things I can change, but time is not one of them.  I can’t make it go faster or slower or forward or backwards.  But I CAN choose not to let it pass me by.   I am going to enjoy my husband, my child, my family, my friends; I am going to enjoy life.  You only get one!

Many great things happened this year.  Honestly, it was a great year for us.  Nothing huge or big happened, disappointments came and went, but I can look back on 2011 and remember it being a great year.

I am hopeful that 2012 will be as fulfilling and eventful as this last year in the best way possible.  I am happy with life.  There is no other place I would rather be but in this place in life.  Happy 2012, here’s to another great year!

*Coming Soon* As soon as we get home and settled I am going to do a revisit of 2011!