Mommy Mondays: What A Year

On Saturday as I took down

the Christmas tree,

the pile of kids books

and the intricate and breakable decor,

my mind wandered to what 

would be next Christmas.

Next December,

(okay I admit it, November)

what will life hold for us?

What will have changed?

What will remain the same?

Will I look back on 2016

and feel proud of the changes we made?

The goals set be accomplished,

the ways of being I am promising to myself

hold true?

Next year,

as I unpack those boxes

I so carefully put away,

how will our family look?

Jane will be two

and Claire 5.

We will be in a new routine of 

all day Kindergarten

and how knows what else.

There are so many things

about 2015 I am ready to leave behind.

I am ready for the new year,

new change and 

a new way of being for our family.

The new year also brings a new year for me in another way.

It is my birthday today,

which causes me to pause and reflect even more.

A new calendar year, a new birth year

and another chance for a new beginning.

2016,

I am so ready for you!