Ready for 2010
Welcome to the Riley's 2010!!! If you are reading this, then you made the transition with us to private and I am so glad! If you are responding to the email you got and viewing as a guest, I hope that you will create a free Google account (doesn't have to be email, just a username and password for Google) so that you can continue to view my blog. The link in your email will only let you view for 2 weeks. I am so excited about all the people that emailed, posted and messaged me about my blog.
I thought a lot about this post over the last week. I was going to follow the lead of many other blogs that I read and list my resolutions so that at the end of the year, I could see how I had done. I thought about my resolutions for 2010. What do I want to accomplish? Normally I would say get in shape every year. But this year, I have already lost a little over 50 lbs since the boys have been born and I am not overly concerned about the last 10. I know I won't have time with my job and the boys first year to commit to a gym membership and I am not looking for a huge eating lifestyle change. For now, I am going to enjoy this year and not put any physical pressure on myself. (Which would probably lead to a breakdown anyway!) I would love to say that I am going to start a hobby: I want to learn to sew. But with going back to work full time (and working every other Saturday), going to church on Sundays, being a wife, and a mother of first year twin boys.. I think I would be setting myself up for failure. Likewise on joining the Bible study after work that is an hour away, marathon running, dance class?, etc
I thought a lot about this post over the last week. I was going to follow the lead of many other blogs that I read and list my resolutions so that at the end of the year, I could see how I had done. I thought about my resolutions for 2010. What do I want to accomplish? Normally I would say get in shape every year. But this year, I have already lost a little over 50 lbs since the boys have been born and I am not overly concerned about the last 10. I know I won't have time with my job and the boys first year to commit to a gym membership and I am not looking for a huge eating lifestyle change. For now, I am going to enjoy this year and not put any physical pressure on myself. (Which would probably lead to a breakdown anyway!) I would love to say that I am going to start a hobby: I want to learn to sew. But with going back to work full time (and working every other Saturday), going to church on Sundays, being a wife, and a mother of first year twin boys.. I think I would be setting myself up for failure. Likewise on joining the Bible study after work that is an hour away, marathon running, dance class?, etc
So this year I am going to resolve to do the best I can and enjoy each moment. I am going to trust God for all the wisdom that I need to be a mother, daughter, sister, wife, and friend. I am going to trust God to help me find the balance between a demanding job, a wonderful husband, my desire to serve Him (God.. not my husband :-) my beautiful children, and my wonderful friends. I am already accepting that this means less sleep, more patience, and most of all more forgiveness of myself. Somethings will just not get done, somethings will not be perfect or perfectly planned, but.. it will be okay.
I am reading a book (one chapter a night before I totally fall into a coma) called "Rattled: Surviving Your Baby's First Year Without Losing Your Cool" by Trish Berg. I purchased it at the Christian bookstore along with other books I hope to read sometime this year. There are several chapters that have spoke to me. Especially the one regarding making time for your husband. I won't get into it here but I swear the Lord was speaking to me. It even had the Bible verse engraved on the back of my watch Justin gave me.
I am reading a book (one chapter a night before I totally fall into a coma) called "Rattled: Surviving Your Baby's First Year Without Losing Your Cool" by Trish Berg. I purchased it at the Christian bookstore along with other books I hope to read sometime this year. There are several chapters that have spoke to me. Especially the one regarding making time for your husband. I won't get into it here but I swear the Lord was speaking to me. It even had the Bible verse engraved on the back of my watch Justin gave me. The most encouraging and heart touching to me is a chapter on survival mode. How the beginning is just hard and you do what you need to do to survive. The study is the following verses from John 1.
43The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip, he said to him, "Follow me."
44Philip, like Andrew and Peter, was from the town of Bethsaida. 45Philip found Nathanael and told him, "We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."
46"Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?" Nathanael asked. "Come and see," said Philip.
47When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him, "Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is nothing false."
48"How do you know me?" Nathanael asked. Jesus answered, "I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you."
49Then Nathanael declared, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel."
50Jesus said, "You believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree. You shall see greater things than that."
44Philip, like Andrew and Peter, was from the town of Bethsaida. 45Philip found Nathanael and told him, "We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."
46"Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?" Nathanael asked. "Come and see," said Philip.
47When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him, "Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is nothing false."
48"How do you know me?" Nathanael asked. Jesus answered, "I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you."
49Then Nathanael declared, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel."
50Jesus said, "You believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree. You shall see greater things than that."
Philip and Nathaniel were "rookies" when Jesus called them. They had no idea what they were getting into when they decided to follow Jesus. Just like me, as a new mom, I am a "rookie". I have no experience .. I had no idea what I was getting into. I will struggle, like the author of this book, to learn to meet the needs of my kids, my husband, and myself. But I can do it, because even though I may not know everything, God chose me to be Eli and Beckett's mom. He said that I can do it the moment He chose to bless me with these boys. I may not be the perfect mom, but I am the perfect mom for my boys. God will be with me every step of the way. This is taken straight from the book "Even though your baby doesn't come with an instruction manual, you get something better: God is right beside you, whispering motherhood into your soul."
This year I am going to resolve to listen closely to those whispers.
Here are some new pics of my sweet boys over the last 2 weeks!
Love,
The Riley's