my heart feels happy and content...why? i finally, on this 7th day of the new year, purchased my 2011 calendar! (and bonus! if you buy your calendar late you get it half off!) 3 years ago i found a spectacular little family calendar illustrated by Sandra Boynton, that has a space for each member of the family on each day of the month. I LOVE IT! and i've gotten the same one each year since then. (another thing i like about it is that its just cute and colorful and not refined or pretty in any way and that makes my heart feel young.) I borrowed my girls fine point sharpies and set to work, filling in birthdays and weekly events...putting extra little illustrations for holidays....then i finally hung it in my kitchen. and then i stood and stared at it and flipped the pages back and forth and stared some more. I felt giddy. I still do. I find it so strange that a clean calendar can bring me such joy. i feel the holidays went by too quickly this year (as always) but i find myself glad for this, the beginning of a new year.
i have no idea what this year holds...though some things are inevitable...my baby girl will start kindergarten in the fall and i will officially be unnecessary around these parts during the day. this leads to the question of what will i do then? and i have no idea the answer to that question. but i am a little excited that the year of no more excuses is here and i will just have to make a choice or two and get this next chapter started. i just got chills. maybe i should just have another baby and procrastinate another 5 years.....that would be okay with me, too. anyway...i have been inspired to write out a bucket list....and i just love the positive spin this puts on my thought-life. i haven't yet put pen to paper but i intend to, and soon. also this year i requested and recieved a couple of journals for gifts. in one i plan to record all the books i read, i have done this for a few years now, but didn't have the journal for it. i don't know why the idea appeals to me but it seems proof that i have held on to a passion and interest of mine (reading). the other journal is for recording words that have affected my heart in some way, whether that be a Bible verse, my best friends daughters poem about Fall or famous quotes, song lyrics...i am often deeply moved by the creative arrangements of words. there are scaps of paper everywhere that i have scribbled out these words and i am excited to have them all in one place...bound up in book form...because you know i love books. the calendar high is waning and dinner needs fixing....think i will go have another glance at January and then get to work.
bucket list entries coming soon....
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