January ’24 … in Progress

Today is Tuesday, 1/30/24, which means that January has only one day left! This is just wild to me… perhaps it is wild to you as well? Or perhaps you are reading this so far in the future, that you are now looking back on January 2024 and reminiscing.

For me, the year has started well… but also it doesn’t feel like it’s just begun. I like to think of years by my birthday. I have the good fortune of having a late summer birthday. Well, it’s not THAT late in the summer, but it does fall around the time where many summer camps are coming to a close, and many families are trying to squeak in one last trip before the school year begins.

My life has followed the US school schedule for as long as I can remember. Obviously, I was a kid, and student for a number of years, and then I went to college for six years (no, that doesn’t include a Master’s Degree… I still have yet to “master” anything really), and then when I had graduated, and was looking for work, I became a nanny and my schedule revolved around the kids I cared for! The only time when the educational systems in our country didn’t dictate my schedule, was the time between getting engaged, until our first child started preschool… so maybe five years?

So, my year starts with my birthday! and we are now nearly six months in! All this backstory to say that I have been taking this month, or at least this last week, to reflect on how I think things are going. While I don’t RESOLVE to do anything more than my best, and to give myself GRACE when that’s not possible, I do think that it’s important to have goals… especially if you want to make your dreams come true.

At this time last year, I created my YouTube channel, @alwaysbecrafting, with the intention of sharing my crafting, and my life, with whoever felt inclined to watch, and engage. … but the thing is, that I haven’t been telling the people closest to me, the people that know me IRL, that I’ve been doing this! I needed to know that it was working for me, before I could let other people know… I was afraid of letting other people down. … Which is silly, because I’m guessing that there are some people out there, that are going to be really proud of me, and I have only been denying myself that opportunity.

So here I am, one year later, and I’ve started blogging again! But this time, I’m not waiting to share the news. I’m not making any promises, or resolutions, but I am here. Thank you for reading this. I hope you’ll check out my YouTube channel!