Ah the joys of daylight savings...

It is nearly 8:30am and my two youngest children are still sleeping!!! What is going on?? I would have to say thank you to daylight savings time I think. It was still a little dark up until about 15 or 20 minutes ago. I would guess it's helping them sleep! So I have enjoyed not one -- but TWO cups of coffee in complete quiet. Ahhhh....

(I'm sure this will all change by tomorrow!)

Yet another week begins...another week of hoping I'll get caught up on some things -- get some things organized, start some new projects. I think we're done with the majority of our winter weather (knock on wood), and I feel the Spring cleaning bug starting to set in. I even feel a possible garage sale coming on if I can pull it off. We have entirely too much stuff that we just don't need.

The past week or so I've been thinking a lot about how I have really let go of doing things for myself to recharge. Honestly -- when I think about it too much, it almost makes me sad. I feel like I've become so -- blah and boring -- like I've lost some pieces of what makes me who I am. I don't say this in a material sense -- like I need to have more "stuff" and I certainly don't mean to sound selfish. I just know I am not doing a lot of the things I would like to -- that would make me feel better about myself. I have decided I need to try to incorporate little things here and there in my life, as much as I possibly can, to get back to some things that are really important to me. How I will do it, I don't know, but I've got to do something.

I found this quote this morning and thought it was so fitting for how I am feeling.

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hope you have a great week!