Getting STARTED

I am the type of person that needs a Monday, the 1st of the Month or a New Year to feel like I can START something. I procrastinate and get the overwhelming feelings that I should have started a year ago or last month or last week. I often feel behind. I think I feel this way because I never actually started. I was waiting for the “perfect” conditions. In my mind, I needed a beautiful office, set time away from the kids and a detailed, thought out business plan. You know what? I finally decided to START! I’m sitting at my kitchen counter, I have a child asking for a snack and another crying because he turned off the tv. I’m typing in a google document with no idea how I’m going to post this to my blog that I paid for but haven’t even looked at for a year. It’s not Monday, or the 1st of the month or the 1st of the year. It is January 3rd and I had plans to START on January 1st but it didn’t happen. I talked myself out of STARTING over and over in the past 3 days. I gave myself every excuse: I don’t have time, the kids need me, I’m tired, I need to clean, I need to shower, I need to workout. You name it, the excuse crossed my mind and prevented me from just STARTING! Today was different, I don’t know why today is different. I have my 6yr old niece here along with my two kids. Its freezing outside, literally freezing and that doesn’t happen in Arizona, so we can’t leave the house and I decided that in this moment is the time that I finally write.

I have had big goals in my head for a long time. Longer than I can actually remember. I have a passion for writing and I often feel like I have a lot to say and no one to say it to. I give unsolicited baby/parenting/self care/nutrition/workout/essential oil and health advice to anyone who looks like they are listening. When I am finally around adults (mostly moms) for the first time in days, I just don’t shut up. I want to talk about sleep schedules, preschool, development, oils for everything, how to workout at home, the importance of taking care of yourself (I give that advice but don’t practice what I preach) and goals and hobbies. For some reason, I feel like my experiences and failures are relevant. I feel like people need to hear them. I don’t know if any of that is actually true, but this blog will be all of that. Everything that is on my mind. The conversations I have with other moms and the “wisdom” I have to share. My hope is that you find some insight, humor, and relateability here. I am a work in progress, this project/passion is a work in progress and I can’t wait to see where this all unfolds.

Thank you for reading…

Julia