I wrote this last week or maybe the week before but I'm just now getting around to posting it...
As you can recall from my 2011 post on New Year's resolutions, last year I had a New Years Theme instead of a resolution (Thanks Profgrrrl for the idea last year!). This year I am doing a theme again. It worked well last year and I feel that I made much progress on my theme of "Health" - in fact this is one of the first times that I've stuck with a resolution in years. And I am continuing on the Health theme, but it has now become part of everyday life. Making it more broad and more attainable and less intimidating helped.
This year I am calling my theme Listen and Grow- weird I know but my goal is to listen and be open to growth and change. I don't want to get spiritual but in all actuality this theme is a spiritual one. I need to determine my path and find my center. I tend to let worry and anxiety cloud my judgement. I don't always listen to my heart, my soul, my surroundings... I let others and their perceptions sometimes cloud my own feelings and judgements. So this year I am finding my center - I am listening in order to figure out my next steps and what is best for me and for my family. I am really good at listening to others and helping them make decisions or at least talk through things and make decisions, but it takes me a long time to make decisions myself. I think that I large part of it is the fact that I have too much noise in my head. So I am going to take time to listen to me.
Monday, January 23, 2012
Thursday, January 12, 2012
I'm back
It's been quite a while since I've blogged or even looked at blogs, but I am back. The thing is that I've wanted to get back on for several days, but I don't have anything to write about at the time. So much is going on in my life but most of it is unbloggable. Then the other part of it is finding the inspiration to write. So I'll provide mundane life updates...at least what I can put out there right now.
I had an amazing holiday and only gained 3lbs over the break. I spent a lot of time with Little T, Mr. T and old friends that I rarely see. I spent a lot of time with family. I came back to Tigertown more homesick than I have been in a long time. I'm beginning to wonder if a part of my soul belongs closer to home.
I got two emails this morning regarding writing/publishing opportunities - one from an old colleague to assist in writing an article and one from someone wondering if I would be interested in submitting a proposal for a book chapter on some techniques and methods that I am using for my dissertation. I haven't decided yet if I want to take on these tasks and if they would be worth it.
My teaching evaluations from students were good. I had one student who made selections that I didn't really understand and this one student marked me as "fair" compared to the rest who gave me "excellent" or "good" on my overall score. I haven't gotten the written comments. Overall, it was a good experience. I enjoyed teaching and miss it but I know I made the right decision in not teaching this semester.
I finished collecting my dissertation data, and I have begun analyzing my data and find it refreshing to be working on a new step. It is a long process though, and I am getting nervous about figuring out how to write it all up...haha I don't even have it analyzed yet, and I'm starting to worry. Typical Tigermom behavior.
My other big project deadline is coming up at the end of this month. I think we are on track but there is a lot to do still.
I realized that my little girl is growing up quickly, and I get so emotional thinking about it. She still sits in our laps to read at night and afterward we say prayers and she cuddles up and we rock. Mr. T and I take turns and often this is one of the best parts of my day. However, the other day she had trouble getting situated on my shoulder like has usually does. It made me realize that my days of sitting and rocking together are limited. She can still sit in my lap and read but really cuddling up on my shoulder is getting hard.
She is no longer wetting her diapers but instead holding all day until she naps or sleeps at night, which means she has a very wet (often leaky) diaper in the morning. She still just want to sit and go potty but nothing actually happens. We haven't pushed it but if she keeps holding it she is going to get a UTI. This weekend we are letting her run around naked and are going to encourage sitting on the potty for long periods of time and maybe user bribery with her favorite character undies. I know once it clicks for her it will be okay, but getting it to click is the problem. She is also having a hard time transitioning being back at school after being away for 4 weeks. She loved it before so this is hard on me.
I've signed up for both yoga and pilates classes just to try something new.
I think that's all for now...more later I am sure.
I had an amazing holiday and only gained 3lbs over the break. I spent a lot of time with Little T, Mr. T and old friends that I rarely see. I spent a lot of time with family. I came back to Tigertown more homesick than I have been in a long time. I'm beginning to wonder if a part of my soul belongs closer to home.
I got two emails this morning regarding writing/publishing opportunities - one from an old colleague to assist in writing an article and one from someone wondering if I would be interested in submitting a proposal for a book chapter on some techniques and methods that I am using for my dissertation. I haven't decided yet if I want to take on these tasks and if they would be worth it.
My teaching evaluations from students were good. I had one student who made selections that I didn't really understand and this one student marked me as "fair" compared to the rest who gave me "excellent" or "good" on my overall score. I haven't gotten the written comments. Overall, it was a good experience. I enjoyed teaching and miss it but I know I made the right decision in not teaching this semester.
I finished collecting my dissertation data, and I have begun analyzing my data and find it refreshing to be working on a new step. It is a long process though, and I am getting nervous about figuring out how to write it all up...haha I don't even have it analyzed yet, and I'm starting to worry. Typical Tigermom behavior.
My other big project deadline is coming up at the end of this month. I think we are on track but there is a lot to do still.
I realized that my little girl is growing up quickly, and I get so emotional thinking about it. She still sits in our laps to read at night and afterward we say prayers and she cuddles up and we rock. Mr. T and I take turns and often this is one of the best parts of my day. However, the other day she had trouble getting situated on my shoulder like has usually does. It made me realize that my days of sitting and rocking together are limited. She can still sit in my lap and read but really cuddling up on my shoulder is getting hard.
She is no longer wetting her diapers but instead holding all day until she naps or sleeps at night, which means she has a very wet (often leaky) diaper in the morning. She still just want to sit and go potty but nothing actually happens. We haven't pushed it but if she keeps holding it she is going to get a UTI. This weekend we are letting her run around naked and are going to encourage sitting on the potty for long periods of time and maybe user bribery with her favorite character undies. I know once it clicks for her it will be okay, but getting it to click is the problem. She is also having a hard time transitioning being back at school after being away for 4 weeks. She loved it before so this is hard on me.
I've signed up for both yoga and pilates classes just to try something new.
I think that's all for now...more later I am sure.
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