Happy New Year!
This past year has been a year-one that I look back on and in many ways am so thankful for yet in the same breath don't really know how we did it (well the secret is that we didn't do it alone-Jesus helped QUITE a bit) ;).
Looking back on 2012-the moving, the packing, the re-locating, the un-packing, the settling, helping with a new church plant, the meeting new people, working on new friendships, making room to keep up with old friendships, navigating a new town, new job, new schedule, basically getting used to our NEW LIFE...has left us busy.
It is funny-while on the Westside of the state I was AT least 15-30 minutes away from MOST of my friendships (I was blessed with a few right down the road...but not many). This distance seemed daunting on some days, knowing that to do a playdate or go to a mom's group I would be on the road for 45 minutes to an hour...but that was life over there so we rolled with it:)
Moving to Pullman-this is no longer the case, and I have quickly found that I have even settled into the lifestyle so much so that Moscow (a mere 15 minute drive) seems far...and I really have to NEED to go there to make the trek;). Initially when we got here I thought, "This is great! The kids and I will have much more down time! and Soo much less time in the the car!"
While the less time in the car has proven to be true...the down time has not. By nature I am a do-er-and extrovert you might say-resting is something I don't often think about-but I know that is is good and right for me to rest. I got to have LOTS of down time this Christmas as my parents came into town and we just kind of stopped life (the town of Pullman becomes pretty quiet too during the holidays so that helps) :)-and hung out with my family-did stuff to prepare for baby and rested. It was GREAT!
During that time I realized what was different out here for me...that distance from friends that seemed hard...KEPT me from doing stuff on everyday...especially MONDAYS (Sunday's were busy with church being one of those things that was about 20-25 minutes from us and some Sunday's we would make the drive 2 times)...therefore me an the kids RARELY did stuff on Mondays...we hung out, maybe watched a little more TV, read books, stayed in our pjs, and rested. :)
Even though Sunday's are still busy I had forgotten that boundary I had set-mostly because I didn't really know I had set it for us until placed in a new environment.
So here we are-still in our PJs-the kids are playing some board games and I am writing this (mostly for myself). Just because everything is only 5 minutes away...doesn't mean I have to go do something :).
Here is to a New Year and re-instating old habits in a new location-welcome back Minimal Mondays!
