New Year, Same Me

Future Readers of America

Sometimes I find myself feeling like I should do things because that’s the way I’ve always done them or that’s a tradition that I’m used to or comfortable with.  Such is the case for New Year’s resolutions.  I make them every year because that’s just what you do, right?  You promise yourself to drink more water or lose ten pounds or take up a trendy hobby (ie: last year’s failed attempt at cross stitch – though I still think that I could manage this if I had more free time).

But, I started wondering what the whole point of resolutions is anyway and how could I successfully achieve goals with a full time job, a husband, a dog, and two very young children (one 2 ½ years and one 2 months).  My first thought was that I can’t.  There’s no possible way to drink more water when I’m already drinking 90+ ounces a day to support breastfeeding – I’ll float away or explode or both simultaneously.  To me, that example shows that maybe I was being too narrow-minded and literal.  What if I simply tried to find new ways to be successful in my current stage of life?  Surely there’s a way to win on the days when it feels like I’m failing at everything, right?  

And so, I thought.  I thought abstractly at first – the ideas brewing around in my head like my grandmother’s old school coffee percolator.  I love the bubbling and quite frankly explosive sound it makes when the coffee’s on.  I find the fact that she still uses a percolator in 2019 tremendously festive.  

Then it came to me – quickly and efficiently like a Keurig.  Do the things I’m already doing, but do them with a little more thought, a little more intention, a little more care.

Side note: Can you tell that I am maybe not getting enough sleep and relying on caffeine a little too much in the morning?  

So, what is this going to look like for me?  A lot of my ideas have to do with my family.  But, I’m horrible at doing things for myself, so I kept thinking.  What I came up with sounds silly and simple – maybe it is – but I think I can do it.  I mentally committed to wearing lip gloss or lipstick as the final step of my workday makeup.  I promised myself that I would work in at least one day of low heels into my dearly loved rotation of flats. 

   

And, I would write about what I love – 5 star luxury travel.  

Psych.

Or, I could write about what I really love and really spend time doing – reading books.  

Here we go then.  I’m planning and hoping to write reviews of the books I read this year along with other bookish things that come to me or show up in my life.  I can’t promise that other tangential ideas won’t appear here, but for the most part, it should be reading.  

Thanks for coming along on my New Year, Same Me Adventure!