For me personally with 2014 many things will change. Not only did i just recently move into a new apartment, I have a brand new life to go along with it, it seems. New city, new people, new furniture, new everything. My son has hit his terrible two's and will be going to kinder garden for the first time and I will finally be going back to work. Looks like something anyone should be happy about and most of all looking forward to. After all I was so ready for this, I was ready for the change, but every here and there I can't help to feel that so much adjustment at one time can be frightening and a bit unnerving.
Unnerving? Because there is new territory here, for the first time in my life I am a single parent, raising a child on my own and I had no idea how challenging this can be. Oh but it is, very challenging indeed and I'm sure if anyone reading this is a single Mother or Father you most definitely get where I am coming from. Not only is there house work to get done, but there is paperwork to do of many sorts (including this frustrating divorce I am going through) and lets not forget about grocery shopping and other errands we all have to run in or daily lives. Family wondering why you don't call so often. Friends upset because you don't give them enough of your time... and then there is that little boy staring at you, with those big blue-green eyes wanting your attention and having all the right in the world to demand it. After all he is always number one priority and the biggest reason I put myself through 3/4 of all this madness every day.
So what to do first?! First of all I need to run my head into the next brick wall I can find.
I need to get this move completed. Seriously. I've damn near broken my neck tripping over bubble wrap, half empty boxes and/or other packaging at least fifteen times. (and people lets not forget about the toys...the endless amount of TOYS, that pardon me just got twice as bad over Christmas. Don't get me started!) This new place I moved into is awesome, I mean truly, I LOVE the apartment, but for the love, this move is stressful and most of all it's dragging. I just want to get it done already, so I have acquired a few happy helpers in the family, whom without I'd be doing my first suggestion.
After the (hopefully sooner than later) completion of the move to Nuremberg there will be only one thing left to do, which is to take one day at a time. Driving myself insane over the endless 'stuff left to do' is unnecessary and most likely just not the best way to go about it. So, I am going to take it easy and do what I can, when I can, with the best of my knowledge WITHOUT running myself into the ground. Which brings us to the biggest new years resolution for me personally. Something I really want to change and do better, something that will hopefully prevent long term Hyper Tension and a secured Heart Attack by the age of 35.
"Take one step at a time and don't stress yourself"
Also I will keep smiling and find at least one thing each day that I can be happy about, even in the most annoying and frustrating of days. As a pretty optimistic person I do believe, that there is at least one thing per day that can magically make a smile appear on our faces, we just need to want to see it.
With my new and improved attitude when it comes to stress management I am very much so looking forward to the new year, it will hold very many awesome things. I have plans to travel and also have an important visit ahead of me from someone really wonderful in my life, that whom without I would have given many things up a long time ago.
On that note I want to raise my glass on this very evening, thanking everyone for gorgeous memories I have been given in this year, there were many wonderful things in 2013 that I am grateful for and will be for the rest of my life. These people, those memories will never be forgotten. May many more of them be created and may this coming 2014 be a blessed year for you all.
Happy New Year!!
