What's important to me?

I've been thinking lately about what is important to me. How my time is spent reflects, no matter what I say, what TRULY is important to me. So here are the things I say are important:

Kaileigh

God

Kelly

My dogs

My friends

Scrapbooking/preserving memories

Exercising

Being outdoors

Volunteering

How is it some of these things don't fit currently into my life-- or let me rephrase- I am not fitting them into my life.



Breaking these down:

Kaileigh- I hope I make time for- the effort is definately there and she does come #1



God-- man am I slacking there, but that's a topic for a whole other blog....maybe



Kelly- working a 2nd job and just all the stuff- I hope our random date nights show him that he is a priority... I want a healthy happy marriage- probably need to take inventory with him and see how he feels about the last 7 months (yes, we just hit 8 months yesterday)



My dogs- I could stand to make a little more effort on outdoor play time-- but let's face it- they're spoiled!



My friends- we're all busy so this is a catch 22. I want more time with friends- meaningful talks over wine/coffee. I'm so blessed to work with great women at my office but I do feel a lacking of true deep womenly friendship. I often feel envious of those who still have that life long best friend! I guess the other side to the coin is I've been blessed with MANY special women who have come into my life at times where I needed them and we had a blast! :) These friendships aren't gone- they are of the heart- but the distance is a killer.

Scrapbooking/preserving memories- I have a horrible shopping habit in this category and find all this fun cool stuff, but then don't find the time. Kaileigh has started her own books now and I'm working on committing time in our calendar that we will work on our books together. This is one that just floors me- I LOVE to sit and scrapbook-- so why don't I make the time?

Exercising- I LOVE how exercising makes me feel. Before the wedding I got into the TaeBo classes here in town-- LOVED IT! But...that's $$ every month I decided not to spend now. We have memberships to our rec centers in town-- but do I go make time to work out on my own? No. Does Kelly go every single day? Yes. Did I find time to take on a new job although I wasn't making time for the gym? Yes. Do I need a "partner" or classes to keep me motivated- obviously yes. Solution pending....

Being outdoors- I do an ok job here. There is only so much time in a day and since I work in a cube, I can start to walk every day during work to help me spend more time outdoors. Commiting to setting up camping trips, walking my dogs, fishing etc will help me continue to pursue this love.

Volunteering- If I could spend an 8 hr work day Volunteering, I'd love to. I help in Kai's class as much as I can, volunteer with the Awana program at church, and infrequently get up to volunteer with the boxers at the rescue (that Saturday morning time just doesn't always work). The problem with the rescue vs Awana is that I want to take all of the dogs (most of them anyway) home and the kids...I'm ready for them to be picked up when the night is over :) haha.

So, in perspective here, I'm not doing too bad of a job. Maybe I just love too many things? There are definately priorities I speak of that fall by the wayside by the day to day events and to do's that come up. This is something I need to work on and keep in mind :) If I TRULY love something, TRULY want to do something, then I will MAKE the time.


Hmmmmmm.....