The Joy List
Goodness, gracious. The last Joy List post here was two years ago! It is not that I didn’t notice, it’s just I let time pass by. I couldn’t say I was busy- but maybe I have come to accept that these ages of my kids is really a time for focusing on the busyness and that its okay to let other things slide. It was just… I was laying low- from working too much, baking too much, and maybe from structuralizing everything too much.
Even a monthly or weekly joy list post, I figured, does not feel natural to me. Or I was just really lazy. Ha!
Or maybe I just realize now that some 8 or 9 years ago, all I ever wanted was to work from home, get this blog running and earning so I can stay home with my babies.
Well.. life becomes too hazed, and along the way you lose sight of a precious dream. And you keep reaching and reaching without realizing that somehow you have arrived. That the things you have now are exactly what you once yearned for.
Maybe I was still striving, striving, for more… growing this blog more, and I did not get to enjoy that I have arrived. It all started as just that one dream. And I guess, for now, this is all I ever need.
Our eldest is a teen now. I remember baking loads and loads while she was at my feet. The middle one, soon to be a teen, was the fastest one to sneak behind me and play with my bread dough. My youngest child, well.. he is 5 but I let the speed at which my eldest turned from a newborn to a teen be a reminder to savor and enjoy the moments of his littleness.
I tell you, each time I sit down to write these posts- it always becomes cheesy. I always intend for these to be light, then I end up baring my soul. It is like how I cannot, for the life of me, handle small talks in person.
So Joy List. Thank you for being here! What are your current joys? Feel free to share in the comments.
- The health of my children, my husband and all our family. Nothing more precious.
- Books I Read: I have returned to reading fictions lately: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine and Theo of Golden. And so, so loving my Kindle. I can read anywhere and anytime. However, physical books- the smell and the feel of the pages, still has a pull on my heart.
- I have finished my Yoga Teacher Training Course, and I send out weekly newsletter here, if you would like to check that out, and my website is here.
- Working Out. This is the one major thing I have started 2 years ago, before I thought yoga was all I ever needed. But it turns out, strength training is actually something I really, really enjoy. Maybe because like yoga, it makes me focus solely on what is happening- the challenge of the workout, the struggling of the body- no time for thinking! And If you ask me, I think, at this time of rapid digital visuals overloading us, being able to focus on the present is the biggest joy.
