We can light 'em up, up, up

Life is short. And so worth living.  But are we living it to the fullest?  I know I’m not.  I try to, I really do, but I am not.  There are only a handful of things that I am doing that I really WANT to be doing.  I am hugging my kids and my husband. I am dancing.  I think that really ends the list.  Everything else in my life is far too tight and scheduled and I don’t get the opportunity to kick back and enjoy.  A blog post I read recently talked about the things you save until some unknown time later, like the good candles or lotions or soaps.  I’ve thought about that before.  When is ‘later’?  When will you burn that good candle that Aunt Cindy gave you or use that really nice lotion you just picked up at Bath and Body?  I am guilty of this.  This is how my life seems to go as well.  I save the ‘good’ things for later.  Why?  Why do I do that?  I don’t want to do that. I want to burn the candles now. I want to live life. Now. Not later, not at some unknown time, but now.

This is something that is on my mind at the beginning of nearly every year. How can I laugh more this year?  How can my children and husband laugh more? How can I be a better wife and mother to them? How can we enjoy our time together more? How can we grow closer?  How can I show them faith and build my own?  How can I spend more time with my friends and cultivate those relationships more? How can I bond more with my family? How can I change all of these things in the upcoming year? How can I live life to the fullest this year?  I don’t have the answers.  All I have is my willingness to keep trying.