Dusting Off Ambition

A new post is overdue.

I’m a big project starter. I LOVE projects – in school I loved them and now I love them in my home; but when it comes to keeping up with a personal project, I’m typically a lit match: quick to flare up, quick to burn out. For years I’ve maintained the start-up motivation to keep a regular work-out schedule, journal daily, have a  regular prayer time – you get the gist. And while I might have a good first week with my sparkling endeavors, my persistence lags and the goal dissolves with the newness. I have a difficult time getting over the slump of something once the freshness has faded – am I alone on this one? My goal list is beautifully written with great intentions and bright visions of how my life will be once I start running and praying a Rosary every day – but that life of Accomplished Katie isn’t fully realized.

YET.

I write this in an effort to somehow shield my blog from becoming a dusty old project from way back when. I’m resolved to conquer the slump of Worn Off Novelty and to persist in my reflections on being a Catholic wife. Writing my thoughts, whether they’re read or not, has furthered my endeavors toward happy holiness and servitude to God and Andrew, and now Liam too. Though through other projects I have waxed and waned and let ambition go, this an occasion when I vow to not disappoint myself. I love God and holy marriage and writing – what better way to combine the three?

The idea of New Year’s resolutions tempts me and most years I don’t make even one; so many people set themselves up for failure and disappointment in their quick-starts, and I’m certainly no exception. This year however, as I sit 45 minutes away from New Year’s Eve, I have discovered the key to success is recalling twofold advice: the first, from Socrates, “Know thyself” and the second from the Archangel Gabriel, “For with God nothing will be impossible” (Luke 1:37). In knowing myself, I will be aware of my strenghts and weaknesses and so in establishing a New Year’s resolution based on these, I am really setting myself up for success instead of failure – ESPECIALLY if I submit all my goals to God.

So c’mon 2011 – hit me with your best shot.

Weekly Snapshot!

• I’m currently baking a midnight batch of English toffee brownies for some family friends who frequently host Andrew for hunting on their vast, wooded property
• I watched Curly Sue for the first time tonight – where have I BEEN??
• Liam has become a bit of a willfull child – whenever I change his clothes, he pries my hands away from him and kicks me in protest – what happened to my sugary sweet baby boy?
• My birthday is in a week and a day! January 8th – I start looking forward to my birthday every year on the 9th 🙂 I can’t wait!
• I am humbled and honored to keep the blessings God has bestowed on me, especially in this last year. Andrew and I have added “mama” and “dada” to our titles and the child who will eventually call us those things is the most beautiful baby I’ve ever beheld (I KNOW I’m not alone on that one 🙂 ). We bought our first home and my hope and dream of being a housewife has been realized. I am blown away by God’s consistent yeses to my supplications.