Every New Year, Pat and I come up with a New Year's Resolution--an over arching goal that all the goals though the year will work towards. The last couple years, I have focused on "Discipline" in different areas. This year I hadn't yet figured out a goal but I think I finally have: "One day at a time."
I'm a planner and always like thinking 10 steps ahead. My brain is always juggling many different plans and projects (planned and hopeful ones). But right now with juggling work, kids, transitioning of new kids, household and more, My goal is to take things "one day at a time" and to just focus on what I have for the day in front of me. I'll think about the future to plan but focus my energies on today. I'm finally learning the lesson of Matthew 6:25-34
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
Today in between work, errands, playtime and piano practicing we dropped off paperwork at our agency, picked up more paperwork, started filling it out and gathered documents to turn in. We bought car seats for Brother and Sister and got them put together. (I couldn't resist and bought one with a dark pink trim for Sister. "Ewww--Pink!" said the boys.) Bins of boy's clothes that have been stored have been sorted and separated into a donation pile. We also got a draft of a visitation schedule from our social worker. Weekly Saturday visits that will increase in length over the next month. Tentative first sleepover visit will in about a month so we are making serious plans to start moving bedrooms around. A busy, but fun, day. We'll see what tomorrow brings.
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