Welcome back from Christmas break! Hope you all had a wonderful, relaxing time with family and friends. We had a great first week here with our little family, and lots of fun times with friends. We headed to KS for a week, and without giving lots of details, I will just say that I am pretty sure I have PTSD from that trip. I was so happy to get home, and it’s awesome, except that it’s January, which everyone knows is the 12th best month. So I am sandwiched between the Worst Trip Ever, and a month that is long and cold and has NOTHING exciting in it. Unless you consider picking up millions of random christmas tree needles off the stairs exciting. I don’t. (Also, HOW DO THEY GET ON THE STAIRS?! And all month? Are they hiding for a few weeks and then come out at night? I’m truly baffled.)
I am changing out my chalkboard quote as you enter my house, and I picked, “You have to choose Joy, and keep on choosing it.” Yes, this is a good quote for January.
I actually had been looking forward to this time for months. It is the first time in about 7 months where I feel like I am not just trying to keep my head above water with work. I should have a slow schedule for a few months, which I really need. I had visions of relaxing, and doing whatever I wanted to do, instead of stressing to meet my own deadlines for my clients. Funny thing though, as I tried to think about what I would want to do with this time, I couldn’t come up with anything! I literally have forgotten what I enjoy doing in “free time.”
To make matters even more boring, I haven’t worked out in 2 weeks. I feel like I am at confession, and that you are judging the tightness of my pants just because I wrote that. The worst part? I feel like I might never start again. It just sounds hard and not enjoyable. Oh my goodness, is this how most people feel about exercise?! It’s awful! No wonder people don’t do it. Hoping for some inspiration soon, or I will have to get a new identity which sounds even more tiring that just sucking it up and working out again.
Wow. Ramble much, Angela? All that to say, since I am not working out, and I don’t know how to relax, I decided to do a project! Yay projects! We bought Emmy a shopping cart and cash register for Christmas and she wasn’t playing with it because I think she didn’t really know what to do with it! I had seen the idea of building a store on Pinterest, and I now am in love with PVC pipe, so I decided to give it a go. I did this whole basement project in a few hours.
The kids LOVE it and thanked me a million times and actually played for hours without fighting, so that was thanks enough for me.
But now I’m bored again. Anyone have a project for me?! Can I use PVC pipe for it? 🙂
Enjoy your January, and remember to CHOOSE JOY!
{angela}
