2014

The new year has arrived. I was asleep at midnight but greeted 2014 shortly after with a hungry baby and two feverish girls. At 12:30 am, I changed, fed, and burped the baby, gave two doses of Tylenol, fetched cool drinks of water, snuggled in the dark with one girl, gently patted the back of the other girl, changed another diaper, and fed and burped the baby again. I crawled back into bed just before 3:00 knowing I would be awoken again in a couple of hours. It was not glamorous or fun, hardly a New Years Eve to envy.  But it is life. Real life. And that's worth remembering. 

Also worth remembering: December. 

2013 was a good year. We got a whole new person for goodness sake. 

I have tried several times to make a list of resolutions, to condense my many wandering thoughts into something logical, and to form some sort of goal for the new year. I have failed each time, finding myself in the middle of a rambling, thinking out loud, sort of jumble. So I'll simply say:

May 2014 bring what it will, and may I accept everything that it brings with grace. 

SIMPLIFY - perhaps that is what my focus should be for 2014. We shall see. 

Have you made resolutions for the new year?