The New Calendar Starts Tomorrow!!!

What a lovely day to reflect. Time to buy a new calendar for the family- mostly we all use Google but I hold onto one on the fridge for the visual impact.

2016 brings lots of predictable stuff… we live through winter and in March I will be done with my last baby being 11…my hardest parenting year with all of them. 12 sounds so good and then Joey turns 14, an age I adore. This summer we have a family reunion scheduled in Yellowstone and then in August I turn 53 which I predict to be a pretty boring birthday. September Joey starts high school and Nate is just another year into 30 something and Paul spends another year in his mid-50s. I will host/survive the next Twin Cities Birth and Baby Expo. I will cook 2 turkeys for Thanksgiving and likely wait until the last minute to buy my Christmas presents and then we do it all again.

I will see approximately 737 clients, teach a bunch of classes and almost all of my money will go to bills. I hope to take my Facebook page from 2000 to 4000. I will do close to 200 loads of laundry and if my boys keep eating the way that they are, I will make 2000 meals. I am averaging a book every 10 days so that means reading over 35 this year. My to do list will never be complete and my house will never be as clean as I wish it were.

I will yell at my kids more than I like and wish I was more patient. I will break things, spill things, and forget things. I will get my feelings hurt and I will hurt other’s feelings. I hope to find some risks to take and bump into a bunch of stuff I don’t already know.

I know that 2016 will bring surprises- some of them wonderful, some of them less than. There are unexpected new additions and shocking losses ahead. There are illnesses, injuries and windfalls.

I don’t do resolutions. I will recommit to exercise and vegetables now that the holiday excuse is gone. I will focus on and fail at  living within my means, being patient, simplifying, purging and being grateful.  I want to both be content with what I have and strive for more. I want ambition and serenity. I want simplicity and abundance. I want passion and peace.
I wish you a complicated and messy New Year that stretches you to be more than you thought you could be.