A New Year

Oh man it has been hard to get back into the rhythm and routine of  life again after 13 days off.

I am very thankful for a job and more thankful for the one that has paid time off so that we are able to go and spend the holidays with family. Although Brian and I loved our time with family (and the time was much needed) we were both ready to be back at home, where all our stuff is and our lives we have made over the last 6 months.  We got home the evening before I needed to go back to work.  I would have liked to have had a couple more days at home before work to get settled but what can you do.

New Years for Brian and I the last few years has been marked by driving for 16hours from Arizona to Texas or crazy things like that and by midnight we are sound asleep.  This year we did not have that but we still did not make it to midnight (which is a very different than when I was growing up going to my Uncle's block party every year).  I know that sounds lame but when you don't drink and we were not around friends there aren't many things to go do on New Years Eve.  Usually this does not bother me because not seeing midnight does not affect the feeling of newness, hope and excitmemnt for what is to come that usually comes with New Years Day.  When I woke up this year on January 1st, nothing seemed new. Nothing had changed. It was just another day.

Google's definition of New is:
"Not existing before; made, introduced, or discovered recently or now for the first time"

Sounds exciting and hopeful.   Maybe I don't have this mindset because there are so many new things that Brian and I experienced in 2012 that were marked by major events and not many (if any) are on the calendar for this year. 

I realized each day is new. Not just when its the beginning of the new year. I want to find the excitement in the everyday. I want to laugh more. I want to not just exist.I want to be thankful for each day even if its just sitting at the office for 8 hours,going to work out, and making dinner.

I know that the only way this is possible is by being focused on the Lord.

Honestly this is what I have needed for a while. its not a simple task. Sounds simple but its not.  We are selfish and self centered individuals who are lazy.

So here is to working on a new mindset. Excited about the new that 2013 brings as well as each day.