Not Giving Up My Habit ( Even Though I Want To Some Days!)

Sometimes goals don't really seem that important;  resolutions that you made in January start to seem, well, not worth it come February.

I am at that point right now.

It seems like when I get up early my toddler gets up early, too.  And cries until I come and lay with her and she goes back to sleep.  That seems to defeat the purpose of getting up early!

So what to do?  Get up earlier?  Would that work?

Then I'm cutting into evening time with the family.  And yet I know that more important than anything is else is my relationship with God.  Granted, that happens all day long.  But I give it a place of honor by making it FIRST thing in the morning.

And so I'm going to press on.  I'm going to ask Hubby to help me get to bed earlier.

I'm still going to get up when the alarm clock goes off, even if I have to lay back down with my fluffy headed toddler for a few minutes.

I am going to go ahead and read my Bible and journal, even if I have a toddler scribbling on her paper at the table beside me and a ten year old eating a bagel on the other side and its hard to concentrate.

I am going to remember the good.  My house looks way better now that I have started getting up earlier.  You wouldn't think that would make a difference but somehow it does.

I have started couponing a little bit . . .I know that I saved $14 alone this week and last week just in CVS Extra Bucks on stuff that I would have bought us anyway.

I have also started to write out my meals for the week and get the ingredients so that I don't have to stand in front of the pantry and try to throw something together.  That's comforting.  I know that in a few minutes I'll go out to the kitchen and throw some frozen chicken, half a packet of taco seasoning, some lime juice and some cilantro in the crockpot and we'll have Lime Cilantro Chicken tacos for  supper . . .with next to no effort from me.

So this getting up early thing is good.  It's good to feel like I am living with intention.  And if it doesn't always feel good when I roll out of bed . . .well, it doesn't always feel good when a runner is only halfway through the race, either!  Or a student is only part way through writing a research paper.

But when it's all done, it feels really good.  And so it is with establishing this habit.

Good luck to you with YOUR habits, too!

~ Jennifer