Fall Resolution - A new take :)

Brandon and Bri ~ right before bed.

Brandon Dean

Brandon's SCARY self portrait

This morning as the sun shined through the cracks of our blinds, it seemed too early and yet I was needing to get up for an early morning meeting, I fought off the Monday Morning BLAHs and decided enough is enough. I am tired of worrying and stressing over all the unimportant things that life deals us and not enjoying the precious moments we have with our loved ones. Sure I picked myself up and headed off to work, fighting the urge to give into Brandon's pleas for me to stay home with him today, but I'm looking at things in a new light, a different light, starting today.

I will do my duty at work, come home and treasure every precious moment I have with my family. I will turn off the radio in the car and explain to Brandon and Brianna why the foilage on the trees are changing colors. I will tell them it's the first day of fall, and patiently try to make out what they are saying about fall and then explain to them that fall is one of our four seasons, and when we get where we are going and they ask again, I will patiently explain again and hold on to every expression they make on their little faces as they turn and explain to their dad what fall is. I will come home and turn off the tv and just enjoy us being a family.

In life it is all too easy to get wrapped up in the little idiocracys of every day stresses. Money, Work, Kids misbehaving, Teenagers pushing every guideline there is. At the end of the day, what good does it do to stress and ruin and/or not enjoy the precious moments of our lives?

Today is the first day of fall, and although I have never heard of it before, I am making a "Fall Resolution" to change the way I stress over the little things. I am going to live every moment for the moment and enjoy my family to the max. I thank God for all of our blessings and the 4 beautiful, healthy, funny angels he has blessed us with, and I am going to enjoy them without the stress and worry from this day forward. I love my family and I am going to tell each and every one of them it every single day!

Today was the most wonderful stress-free day of my life, and I enjoyed every second I had with the kids. The pics posted have absolutely nothing to do with my Fall Resolution, except they are funny little windows into the little ones...the older ones were being teenagers, Carissa hidden in her room reading, and Cody hidden in his room on the phone with as he would say "his hippie he is in love with" ~ that would be Ms. Jewel.....but that's okay, cause that's who they are and as I wonder off to sleep tonight I will find peace in knowing I enjoyed the moments I had with them today and did not let "stress" overcome and ruin those all to few precious moments.