Resolutions

As the New Year is now upon us I have heard many say they are starting a new year resolution, or have seen many advertisements that you need to start one. I am not against them by any means. And if you take part I will do nothing but encourage you! For me I do not make a resolution. I don't see why waiting till the new year to make a change makes sense. Usually people want to change something, like lose weigh, save money, go back to school, change jobs, get out of a bad relationship... this list can go on and on!! I say why wait?! Why not make the change you want now, why does bringing in the New Year make is so special? Do not wait to make changes in your life until next year... It is interesting I was cleaning out my email and for the last few years I was signed up to receive 3 different daily devotionals. It is funny I never unsubscribed to them because I knew it was something I wanted to do so I set my email up that once I get these daily emails they would go straight to a folder, I was still holding on to the idea that I would go back and read them! Well I cleaned out those three folders with over 400 new emails... I just signed up for 4 new devotional studies that I want to do, and I had totally forgot about the three that I had already been signed up to do. Having good intentions, but not getting it done! Is that the story of your life? It seems to be mine. And it is more frequent than I would like! This is something that I am always working on to change. Intentions tho they may be good and in the right direction when you don't complete them you feel bad. We have intentions on starting a New Years resolution, to make a change to be better or do better. And it may start out great, but what seems to happen is as time goes on you get pulled back into old patterns, being over scheduled and under many time restraints. I want to try a simple approach to this thing called life. Mine is crazy, and having 7 kids live in one house would drive most of us mad! A few things I do to survive the chaos that may help you. I take each day at a time, period. I do not schedule to far in advance, the few things that are scheduled are doctor appointments and meetings with teachers. The kids only have ONE activity that they can choose to be apart of. So for us its football, orchestra, and drama club, girl scouts. I do not over book our schedule. Most of the time we plan a day a head or the day of. So we have friends stop over and will throw a meal together, we are a fly by the seat of your pants family! Enjoy each moment and each other!