Our smiling Grace!
Cheese!!
SIX!
So many new things have happened this year... the start of kindergarten has come and gone and she's doing GREAT! We are so lucky to have a wonderful teacher that not only challenges Tyler, but that Tyler LOVES. :-) Academically, she is excelling... she's moved up to the next level of projects and works. :-) She has a calendar that she brings home each day with a little daily report on how her day went... Tyler LOVES to count how many green smiley faces she has... a report on how her day went. :-) So far she's brought home nothing but greens. :-)
Christmas break is just around the corner... we are half way done with kindergarten! I think i'm just gunna smother her every day until school starts back up, sleep with her at night and enjoy each day of the break... 'cause it's just going to fast!
Yes I can.... um, wait... no, actually, I can't. :-)
I was talking to a very dear friend of mine about stresses... all of which I can honestly say, I put on myself. She made a statement that rang as clear as a bell to me...
-Saying yes to a new commitment, means saying no and taking time away from commitments I have already made.
For those of you who know me, know that I over commit... and then I procrastinate because I feel so stressed with my "to-do" list that I get to a point of overload, have a good cry and start again. I don't know why I feel like I can say yes to so many things... it's okay to say no, but I hardly remember that for myself. So, I wrote the statement above on my mirror. Because I am wonderfully good at telling myself that whatever the new thing is that I want to take on won't actually take up that much time... and oddly forgetting the very true fact that if I take a new thing on, it's less time that I will have to devote to commitments I have already made.
So... my manta for 2011. Saying yes to a new commitment means less time for things I have already committed to. Just a great reminder to me that one, it's okay to say no and two, that if I do take something on, I need to have a list of my priorities done first and answer honestly, do I have time??
:-) Never have I been so excited for a new year... after all it's just another day in the continuing circle of life, but this year... I just can't wait for a new, fresh start!!
-Saying yes to a new commitment, means saying no and taking time away from commitments I have already made.
For those of you who know me, know that I over commit... and then I procrastinate because I feel so stressed with my "to-do" list that I get to a point of overload, have a good cry and start again. I don't know why I feel like I can say yes to so many things... it's okay to say no, but I hardly remember that for myself. So, I wrote the statement above on my mirror. Because I am wonderfully good at telling myself that whatever the new thing is that I want to take on won't actually take up that much time... and oddly forgetting the very true fact that if I take a new thing on, it's less time that I will have to devote to commitments I have already made.
So... my manta for 2011. Saying yes to a new commitment means less time for things I have already committed to. Just a great reminder to me that one, it's okay to say no and two, that if I do take something on, I need to have a list of my priorities done first and answer honestly, do I have time??
:-) Never have I been so excited for a new year... after all it's just another day in the continuing circle of life, but this year... I just can't wait for a new, fresh start!!
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