What are your dreams and goals for 2008? What are you thinking about right now as we plunge into the new year?
Isn't this an awesome mug? It has an M on the other side and says, "M" is for Mom, not maid. Ha! I was feeling sooo sick the other morning and while the kids were getting ready for school, I asked S to get me a cup of ice water. She came back all smiles with this mug. It is now my bedside table mug and it speaks volumes to the predicament I find myself in right now. I've plunged into the new year definitely a Mom and definitely NOT a maid. My house is proof of that.
I've realized that I am entering a new stage of Motherhood. One where my kids are growing up, doing things, I mean wanting to do things on their own. The older two get themselves ready in the morning for school, they come home and have homework and things they want to accomplish. It's odd. I am no longer the beginning and end in their lives, in many ways I'm no longer their "Maid", they are becoming pretty self efficient. S brought up the point that in two years she could babysit for me. Yikes!
Well my goals for the year follow the same sentiment as the predicament I find myself in. I yearn to do as President Gordon B. Hinkley admonished us to do, to "Stand a little taller". I want to be able to grow as my kids grow, to keep my goals always a little higher than where I am at today. So next year I can say that I love and feel closer to my husband and children more than I did last year. To have a smile on my face as I recall memories of the previous year. I want to just be a better person, for myself, my family, and my friends and community. I don't want to be "the maid" infact it makes me think of the story of Mary and Martha. Martha was so busy doing all the preparation and cleaning that she missed all the teaching that was going on by the Savior. That said, I know it is important to have a clean and orderly life, it's just I don't want to over complicate my life with "maid-like" tasks that will make me miss the purpose of why I'm here. Here's hoping that 2008 will be Grrreat!
