So this is what a New Year feels like…

For the first time in well…eight years really, this new year has a different feel to it. And it’s absolutely because we solved the our daughter harassing us in the night problem. Of course, now the problem is she harasses our son in the night, but that’s a problem to solve in a little while. Not quite now. Because now I’m finally getting some sleep.

It’s amazing what a little more sleep brings to my world view.

And of course the kids are older, what they need from me is different than what they needed from me years ago and I feel like there is a little more space in my life. Some wiggle room. I’m not going so far as to say I’m ready to start a new hobby or join a running group – but everything doesn’t feel quite as panicked in my life.

It’s a big moment when you take a deep breath and realize you’ve been sprinting for eight years. Sprinting in place.

So, what am I going to do with this space in the New Year.

Well, first of all a little organization of the grocery shopping/meal prep part of my life. It’s time to lose the nearly daily flail and get on top of this thing. I swear it’s like every evening the fact that my family needs to eat comes as a horrific surprise.

Work on something ANYTHING that isn’t contemporary adult romance. Do I know what that is specifically? No. But it’s time to grease some new wheels.

Reinvest myself in the conversations we have here. I miss writer talk. I’m tired of my cave. I love these smart women. That’s an easy one – how about you guys? What are you doing in the New Year?