More on Life's Clarity

I wanted to talk more about my moment of clarity.

Basically, I had been getting all atwitter about What's my life's purpose? and What am I supposed to be doing with my life?, that I forgot about how I am actually living my purpose now (and I never fully realized it).

See, I don't know if you all know this, but I'm going to live to be 120 years old (I'm dead, no pun intended, serious). Right now I'm 33. So, that is 87 years left for me to do stuff with my life. And only a handful of those years are going to involve child-rearing, so I may as well enjoy them and relish in them while I can instead of focusing on doing much else. I like raising my kids and I'm happy being in this phase of my life right now.

See, Vernon (my husband) has been busy setting goals, reading Success magazine, and talking about life visions as of late. I got all excited about this and wanted to do it too. But I think that overwhelmed me because all of my goals and visions were apart from the work I am doing here now, as a mother. It was too much.

So, now that I've had my moment of clarity, I want to think in terms of how to make my family the best that we can be right now. The best versions of ourselves. I want to set goals and visions in terms of my family now. (You can follow along with me, if you like.)

Goal #1: Smile at your husband.

I've been kind of into Mother Teresa lately. Here's a cute story from one of the books I was reading:

When a group of Americans visited Mother Teresa, they asked her for some advice. "Smile at your wives," she told them. "Smile at your husbands." 

Thinking perhaps that the advice was simplistic, one of them asked, "Are you married?" 

"Yes," she replied, "and I find it very hard sometimes to smile at Jesus. He can be very demanding."

So, I've been smiling at Vernon for the past couple of days, and he may think I'm kind of loopy, but I also think that he likes it. (Note to the Internet: This may be hard to believe, but Vernon does not read my blog everyday. He even stopped reading it entirely for awhile after I wrote that one post about coconut oil, you all know the one. Now, he only reads it when I post a reminder to it on facebook. So, he will see this post eventually and thus realize what I am doing, but it probably won't be today and it probably won't be tomorrow...)