Oh Dear...

It's been awhile since I've written anything.  Here's the deal...

I feel like I'm falling a little bit, falling and failing.  Well, I'm not really failing but I am for sure floundering.  Can I get a few more alliterations in there? :)  So, we've had a hectic few weeks here in Idaho and with all of the stuff that's been going on I've lost sight of my "Just Do It" lifestyle.  I've let myself get back into the habit of looking at everything all at once and feeling overwhelmed and then wanting to curl up into a little cocoon and hide from all of the things I need to get done.  I know it's not logical and I know that this is a process but it's a hard one and old habits really do die hard.  I am so full of cliches in this blog I hardly know what to do with myself ;)

On a positive note, I have been doing pretty well with working out this week (I even worked out in Federal Way when we went to visit...go me).  I haven't worked out yet tonight and it is almost 11pm but I am going to even though it's late...better late than never (cliche, I know).  I wouldn't normally work out this late but I feel like I need to in order to not feel like I completely wasted my day, which I sort of did.  Well, not entirely.  I took Jacob to the dentist, had a doctor's appointment, made dinner, did some much needed mail stuff, did the dishes, and all the while dealt with a fussy baby (she gets fussy at about 5 or 6 and pretty much stays that way until bed...definitely a morning lark and I have no idea where she got it from because neither of her parents are like that AT ALL).  Still, I feel like I could have been much more productive today and part of that is because, well, I could have, and also I'm looking around my house and seeing a lot of clutter that would be so easy to just pick up.  I just keep looking at it like it is the most giant task in the whole world though so it keeps not getting done.  I need to get back to tackling one thing at a time and not worrying about anything else at all.  I think I'll start now, starting with the couch...yes there is junk on my couch and no I have not moved it because I rarely actually sit on the couch but rather sit in the papazan chair.  Off to Just Do It!! :)

Oh...I have decided to post radom pics that may or may not have anything to do with what I'm writing about with some of these blogs.  They will probably mostly be of Tirzah :)  I can't help myself, she's just so cute!!

Moments

You know, until you have really small children (I'm talking infants here), you don't really realize how much each day matters.  People change over time, even kids change over time.  You can see a change in a few months or a year or a few years, but infants change in mere moments.  One day they are barely lifting their head and the very next day they are lifting it like a pro.  They haven't smiled once at you and then all of a sudden they are full of smiles all the time.  They even seem to grow overnight!!  It makes you realize in a way that nothing else can that every moment really does count no matter how cliche that sounds.  It makes you realize that each day really is a new day and a new chance to be something better.  Just because yesterday didn't go as well as you would have hoped it doesn't mean that today can't be the start of something new.  And that's the best part, everytime you fall down you really can pick yourself back up and try again.  When you are watching a little one change and grow every day you realize how much change can really occur in a matter of moments and you start to learn how to make each moment count for something.  I am not on a diet, I am making the right choice each time I choose to eat.  I do not have an excercise routine, I am making the choice to excercise each day that I can.  I am not on a mission to makeover my habits or clean my whole house, I am making a choice one moment at a time to clean this counter or unpack this box or fold this shirt (not even the whole pile of laundry but each item in each moment so that if I get interrupted as can so often happen when you have children I don't feel like I haven't gotten anything done).  Moments...each one really can make a difference in the course of a day, a month, a year, a life.