Rest

Dear Friends,

I hope this week filled with various holidays, as we head towards the close of this year and the beginning of the new year ahead, finds you well, content, joyful, and perhaps with a little bit of breathing room.

This past week I took off work with absolutely no agenda.  It’s a rare thing for me, taking off work for a whole week when I have no plans to travel…but I decided, after many many months of an over-full life with multiple moves and fixer-uppering, high school graduations, college decisions and life changes, that this was what I wanted…a little downtime, a little pause with zero agenda.  Yes, there are still things on my moving to-do list…but they’ll still be there when this week is over.

It’s been lovely, this zero agenda…full of too much food and little movement to go with it.  Late nights and late mornings.  Hanging with my boys and sitting with my cat. Listening to my boys and their friends cackle downstairs.  Cooking with my sister and brother-in-law. Movies, books and some games.  Spending a whole day in cozy onesie pajamas.  And a little bit, but not too much, responsibility.

And as I move toward this new year, one thing I am resolved to do is to take a few more pauses in my own life on the regular…to slow down and breathe, to give myself space to sit.  Yes, the full and the fast was a necessary part of the last phase of my life, but now that I can, I will slow down, breathe, and pause.

My dear friends, I hope, if you are able, you can give yourself a little more space and permission to slow down, breathe and pause this week.

Have an amazing week and a very happy New Year.

Love
Krista