I purchased new bedding. I love it! I seriously sleep better under it. I've spent the last two days finding new drapery and new shower curtains and new rugs. I was thinking this morning about new: new year, new resolutions, new life. There's just something about new...I think that's why one of the most popular air fresheners is "new car smell."
I like the idea of starting with something fresh, something that hasn't been used up, damaged, altered, marred. Our first house as a married couple was new. We were the first to live there, the first to paint walls and hang pictures and make memories. When I dream, I am in that first house (trying to figure out how to make my whole family fit - it was a small home!)
I love the early morning because it is the start of a new day. I am usually the first in my house to greet it and I relish the quiet and beauty of the sun coming through the windows and the peaceful sleep of my family and knowing that I have hours in front of me to accomplish whatever I have to do.
I am thinking that I need to make a plan for the new year. With the loss of my mom, it is even more apparent to me that I want to live life deliberately. To take what is new and work it into something meaningful.
