Last month I became an Aunt for the first time! My husbands brother and his wife welcomed Baby Clive to the family and we couldn't be more thrilled. Unfortunately, with us living in Texas and them in Brooklyn, NY it can be challenging to share lifes little moments with them so I opted to put together a quick gift box to send them instead. There is just something so sweet about getting an unexpected package in the mail!
I've been reading a lot about the importance of keeping a cleaner, safer home when it comes to kids and I have been doing a lot of reading about Jessica Alba's new brand The Honest Co. I couldn't wait to get my hands on some new cleaners to try out myself and I was over the moon when I found out they carried some of the baby products at Target. I snagged some samples and of course their Organic Healing Balm for my sis-in-law. And I couldn't help but throw in a toy, an adorable onesie and the sweetest pair of baby shoes ever!
I added some shredded colored paper filling and a card and voila! Gift in a box! This will do for now until I can spoil the little man when I meet him in September!
As you know I've had this blog for a couple of years now and I've never been able to fully commit myself to doing regular posts. Blogging is hard ya'll! It takes a lot of time, patience and persistence!
But as I've reflected over the last few months, I realize it's not just blogging that I find difficult, it's life in general. I have always considered myself a "go-getter," a hard worker, achiever, organized, etc. However, I have felt like a complete mess the last few months. So I recently sat down at a local coffee shop and did some soul searching, I realize that not only do I not set goals, but I also live in a lot of fear.
Let me expand on this a bit. My husband, bless his heart, is the biggest goal-setter, goal-achiever I know. He writes out his goals for the day, week, year, 10 years....and on and on. He knows that sometimes God has different plans for him and he is totally okay with that, He simply revises his goals to align with those the Lord puts on his heart. I, on the other hand, have dreams, big, fluffy, head in the clouds, audacious dreams. But the difference is that I dream these dreams with no sense of how to make them a reality. I find myself floating through life day-to-day with no real plan. Not really working towards any one thing, getting easily distracted and not enjoying life to it's fullest, because I lack intentionality. At the same time, I also live in fear of how people will view me and my life. I know in my heart that I am a daughter of the King, I should not live in fear, but I let the world flood my mind with doubts and anxiety. I let fear put a halt to my dreams and the desires on my heart, before I even attempt to make them a reality. This is the enemies goal, he wants us to fear, to think we are weak and unworthy, but that's a lie. We have all the strength and ability we need through Christ.
All of this being said, July starts a new chapter for me. I am going to stop living in fear and start being intentional with my life, my walk with the Lord, my home, my career and my family. So, moving forward I will be sharing my monthly list of goals on the blog. Many bloggers already do this and I want to do these same, because it creates amazing accountability. Over the past few days I've been working on setting small goals for the remainder of July, and a more solid list for August. I'm so excited to share some of those with you in the next few days. And I'll also be sharing how we as a family, create and help one another work towards our goals.
