Thursday, January 3, 2013

That girl leads the life of Riley!

So....I'm not a writer, I'm not a photographer, I'm not a chef, I'm not a this...I'm not a that!  So what am I?  Who am I?  What do I want to do with my life?  What is my PASSION?  The final question is something that my husband has been asking me for 10 years now. FYI...I still haven't figured it out.  I wish I could.  I wish I would.  This would be simple, right!  I find something that I totally love to do and do it day in and day out and never look back.  It would be awesome!  I don't know maybe I'm just not the kind of person.  Maybe I'm like a (searching for an analogy....) onion?  I have layers.  No, that's not original!  Perhaps I am a person who needs constant movement and change like the wind!  Yeah, that's IT.  I'm like the wind, ever changing!  Even in school when you had to write to the topic, you know, the one that goes "where do you see yourself in 10 years."  I never had an answer to that question.  I should say I never had the typical answer to that question.  My answer was always based on some philosophy I had made up about "how could I know where I would be in 10 years."  "Things change so much that there is not possible way I could know."  At the time is was just a cop-out answer.  But looking back I think i really meant it.  I had no idea and just the thought of figuring it out seemed so unnecessary.  Now, way more than 10 years later, I find myself in the same mind set!  So this morning while my daughter was sleeping and I was sitting with our new baby my husband sends a text asking "if the kiddies were up?"  I text back and said "P is still sleeping, that girl leads the life of Riley!"  Now that got me thinking.  What would it be like to actually lead that life?  Which when I really think about it, I do!  My husband provides for our family so that I can stay home with our children.  Which has always been a dream of mine since my first child was born 14 years ago. I have been a stay at home mom for three months now and have learned that daily house hold chores are so much easier when you don't work a 9-5.  I enjoy doing laundry and folding tiny clothes.  I like to have a clean kitchen without dishes in the sink!  I enjoy keeping up the house.  I am learning to be more productive with my time to do those things that you keep putting off.  However, I don't think I will ever enjoy cleaning the bathrooms!!  Gross!  I'm just not there yet!

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