anticipating: some fun milestones to come with Freddie. He'll be 5 months next week, and we're moving up to some big boy things like sitting in the Bumbo chair and trying some solid foods. So fun. (Photo is Hendrik in the same chair we still have - so fun to make these direct comparisons of what they look like!) Also *eagerly* anticipating our sleep training paying off someday...eesh.
organizing: the playroom, as is always the case right after Christmas. So much fun stuff added - but also so much stuff! I got some inexpensive but cute new fabric bins a couple of months ago, and we might need more to corral Lego manuals and games and such.
reading: my Christmas stack, starting with Boop & Eve's Road Trip by Mary Helen Sheriff, gifted by my mom - she found one I hadn't even heard of! Which is so fun - plus it sounds like it will be the perfect fun read to start off the dark post-holiday winter days of January, with descriptors like "intergenerational romp." Plus "secrets held for generations" is a catnip phrase for my reading tastes.
resolving: to figure out how to have less hurry in my life in 2022. My type-A personality tends that way, toward getting stuff done, which is great for productivity but not great for living in the moment and for enjoying my kiddos' stages for what they are. Hoping to improve on having some times to focus on just being instead of my brain wanting to multitask all the time, and also building in a bit more time between activities in my life rather than always trying to get the maximum amount of minutes out of each activity and then having to rush on to the next...
scheduling: some more postpartum physical therapy appointments so that I can (hopefully) get back to regular running without any nagging aches or injury, unlike post-Hendrik pregnancy. I learned my lesson about ligaments and such still being lax from hormones, and things having shifted or lost strength during pregnancy, so I'm trying to do the work of getting it in order before I go full-on with the running, but it's hard - I miss the full runner's high, plus it's stuff that's so not fun to do (hip bridges and clam shells and kegels and whatnot) and feels unproductive because it's a slow progress. Should be worth it in the end! But maybe as an added motivator I will reward myself with a fun new color of my running shoes when I "graduate."
I hope you all had a great holiday season and are heading into 2022 with some good excitement and plans and intentions and such. Thanks for joining in today - and thanks for all of your nice comments on my last Currently post about being in a season that I'm just not able to visit/comment on very many posts. Soon enough, but meanwhile I still love that you are here!
And do come on back on February 2 to share what you're currently loving, making, taking, wanting, and wondering.
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