Day 29-Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days. Are you kidding me??? I am just trying to get through today in one piece. If I seriously answer the question, the overall theme for my hopes and dreams for the next year is "more joys, less jobs" and our plan is to have some serious conversations about our short and long term goals (fix the house? sell the house? move? adopt? seminary?)
Like most of us who blog and read here, our lives are a constant struggle of seeking balance between the stressors of parenting and the de-stressors that keep us going. Recently, my "job" has included parenting some tough kids I have found myself putting my leisure activites aside to race around getting everyone else to their sports and leisure activies. I have drifted from the things I love and that soothe and enrich me. Quilting. Reading. Country drives. It has been too easy to get caught up in the "job" of raising a family and put aside the little "joys" that keep me going.
This morning I had breakfast with a dear friend and vented. Spewed was more like it. It was a "joy". She is a joy. I need more joys and less jobs....
I love to read. The A to Z Book Challenge was very helpful in reconnecting me to the ritutal of reading before bed. Whatever A to Z book I am currently reading gives me focus in additon to the magazines and various books stacked on the night stand that call for my attention. Every night, now, I read before bed, most nights until midnight. While the trade off for less sleep is obvious as I repeatedly yawn while reading the Littles their bedtime stories, I read late at night because I need to nourish me (even at the cost of sleep). The next morning I ruminate over a character or a plot twist or the writer's sense of place and voice. Another "joy".
This 30 day blog challenge has been very beneficial. It has given me focus to write daily. More importantly, it has given me a place to be "off duty" as a foster/adoptive/bio mom of challenging kids..... for 30 days I have, instead, been given the gift of responding honestly to a series of challenging writing prompts rather than just whining about my day. Another "joy". I highly recommend it.
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