From Where I Sit

I haven’t written in a bit.

We just got back from Breckenridge, CO a few days ago which is the main reason for being too busy to update anything on here. Right now all five of us are sitting at the dining room table and the kids are coloring and PJ is, too. Christmas music is playing in the background while the kids are bursting out laughing at something silly Anna said.

If it sounds like a Hallmark Christmas movie, that’s because it feels like one. Life has been nowhere near perfect lately, and it’s actually been quite difficult in different ways, but right here, right now, it feels pretty damn good. I think that’s what I love to write about most: Those little moments that zoom in on the parts of life that seem mundane and uninteresting, but are in fact what makes it whole.

I enjoy focusing on those moments, especially in written form. I always have. I have kept some form of journal, either online or on pen and paper, for as long as I can remember and it feels especially appropriate now that we have kids so that I can remember these times for as long as possible and relive them again and again.

The new year always brings a sense of wonder to me, and a sense of a fresh start. A renewal or sorts. I think in the new year I will use this blog differently. Maybe it will come more personal; a place to jot down the days’ best and worst moments and make it more of a habit so that one day when we’re gray and old I can look back on our life with ease. Sometimes, for me at least, writing things down helps process life differently than almost any other medium does. It’s therapeutic on many levels and it’s something I look forward to when the day comes to end.

We’re getting ready to go to our first holiday party of the season so I am off for the night. Have a lovely weekend, friends. xo