A Clean Slate

I have to say, it has been forever since my last post. Why? Well, in between the various little household stresses like weekly blackouts that leave us stumbling around the dark, dishwashers breaking, sick child, I somehow did not find one ounce of energy to sit down and type something out.

I plan to add a few this week, and this is my first one.

All I can say is, thank God for the new year. Like a clean fresh blanket of snow, or a fresh chalkboard, it waits with promise and hope of a better tomorrow.

2008 was, to put it very mildly, not a good year. The worst loss we suffered personally was a miscarriage, which is so common and yet so painful to go through.

For a good part of the year after this, I felt stuck in a rut, like a hamster on a wheel, not knowing how to move forward again.

I found writing, reading, reconnecting with old friends, and meeting new ones, were all helpful tools to get over my " massive slump of 2008."

Now, to add to this slump, I used my old standby comfort...I learned this trick teaching, when one day I was almost poisoned with Drano in my coffee cup. While I caught this before my insides were charred, I got home and had a few cookies and felt better...and there lies the extra poundage that comes and goes on my frame.

Sometimes I am quite slim and healthy, sometimes I struggle with an extra 10-15 pounds, and it is completely dependent on emotion. Right now, I am taking off the slump of 2008 weight gain.

So, for 2009, I am resolving to stop emotionally eating once and for all, and use other methods to help me through the tough times. One of these will be writing here.


Happy 2009, and enjoy the clean slate.

Mom and the City