I am a wife and I am a mom. This year I choose to do this better than I ever have before…to intentionally do things that tend to get put by the way side…to purposefully LOVE. I have this fear that things will become routine in a way that suddenly my children are in school and my husband has gray hair and we are still greeting each other the same way…still having the same dinner conversations…still bickering about REALLY DUMB stuff. So, I choose with my whole heart to live in a way that begs to be treated differently…to be silly and crazy and spontaneous in the times when the lazy side of me wants to simply get things done…but what is the joy in that life? Where is the days when your kids look back and remember that one time when their mom let them dance on the table…or that time we camped in the living room…or that time my wife and kids greeted me in the driveway with a banner and noise makers…this is how I want to live…to be exhausted at the end of the day because I loved ALL the way…I cooked with my whole heart…I tucked in with my whole heart…there is so much more beauty and flavor in a life lived like that. I choose that.
