I have been meaning to update for a few weeks now, but life always seems to get in the way.
Marcus and I are not big on Resolutions, but this year we have decided to make some small changes:
We are going to try and have "date nights" twice a month
Spend some time for ourselves; we joined the YMCA and are exercising and taking an hour for ourselves at least twice a week - this is a double bonus because they have childcare and the girls get to play with other kids
I started scrapbooking again
When we are home we are going to be home. So what if all the laundry doesn't get done, the floors mopped, dinner not done on time the girls are growing up so quickly our time at home should be spent with them. The quote below summarizes this:
"The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make. . . . I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less.”-Anna Quindlen(Loud and Clear [2004], 10–11)
