This year we celebrated with stuffed peppers, paints, and new goals. My goals include - eating no sugar, running a 1/2 marathon (i'm training for the Charlottesville half on April 2nd), reading the Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants, and being a more playful Mom among others. You'll see that sign I painted below to help me remember 'Let Them Be Little'. Sometimes, I have a tendency to think they have to know everything - reading, writing, arithmetic and how to play beautiful music on the piano before they even turn 5, but I've learned from friends here especially, that these years are years of joy and exploration - taking it at their pace, and so I have made that new goal for myself. When Mason asks me to play with him, then put down the laundry and play. Go outside more, enjoy the beauties around. So far the winter hasn't been friendly to those ideas, but we are still trying :). Mothering has become more enjoyable as a result. Sure, I still have days that are harder than others - but I'm trying...and that's what goals I think, are all about. So here's to an even more joyful, 2016.
Dear Joanna, Such a well written, interesting and inspiring account of the Freeman family. I loved your goals and appreciate how they include your physical, spiritual, emotional and intellectual aspects of your life. How blessed those little boys are to have you as their mother and your big boy to have you as an eternal companion. I remember the little verse:
ReplyDelete"Oh scrubbing and cleaning can wait til tomorrow, But children grow up as I've learned to my sorrow. So quiet down telephone, dust go to sleep. I'm rocking my babies, babies don't keep." Or you could say: "I'm playing with my little boys...cause little boys don't keep."
Love you ever, Mom and Dad