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Happy New Year

Monday, December 31, 2007 - st
It’s 9am and I’m finishing my first of many cups of coffee for the day. The kids are playing and darting back and forth between their rooms as I type, whispering their plans and voicing their toys’ wishes to one another. They ate all of their breakfast without tears, and I am relieved that the morning was free of drama. I just got off the phone with my husband—it’s just after midnight in Korea, January 1, 2008. We are straddling the years between Oklahoma City and Osan this holiday, and it has not been easy. He called to wish me a happy new year, and we blew each other kisses over the phone lines. I gave the phone to Lauren to tell daddy ‘Happy New Year’ and she said ‘Hi Daddy, I’m sad that I broke my umbrella.’ Priorities are different when you are three.

Tomorrow is a new year and I resolve to let go of a little bit of that hard-driving Type-A persona that carried me through 2007 in a haze. There’s something to be said for slowing down to enjoy the moment, and that’s what I aim to do. Today is a day of introspection for me, because everything can be new tomorrow.

1 comment (Add your own)

1. Kristin K wrote:
Right there with you sister Mari ... that is to let go of some of that internal drive to always be "doing" something. I'd like to kick off the new year with a determined resolve to live each moment to the fullest and spend more time hanging out with my son and my husband. Time sure is flying by now that we have a child and the days become a blur and the weeks a faint memory and befor you know it, you are ringing in another year but are too tired to stay up 'til midnight to see it unfold and give your hubby a new year's kiss! This year I commit to living in the now. I desire to have more faith that if I don't get all done on my eternal to do list, the universe will continue to hum right along without any disruption. Here's to a new year and a new resolve to focus on all we have and stop pining away for what we don't.

January 1, 2008 @ 2:24 PM

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