To me, it seems like I’m constantly “waiting” for the next chapter of my life to reveal itself. I find it so hard to live in the moment and be content with exactly what is happening here and now. For example, currently I feel like I’m waiting for these kinds of things:
-Moving into our new house . . . we’re waiting on our closing date and are living with appoximately 1% of our belongings while everything else is stashed away in a million different places
-Have a second child . . . we’re waiting and have been for what seems like an eternity (a bit over a year now) to have this longing come true
-My photography business. . . while I do have weddings booked for this summer already (almost ten!), I feel like I’m still just starting out and am SO nervous about everything. I’m waiting for the time where I’ll be confident and very successful at my new business.
-Losing weight. . . Yeah. . . I’ll be waiting awhile on this one, because in order to lose weight, you actually have to DO something about it. I haven’t quite gotten the hang of that one yet.
-My teaching job. . . Still waiting on a decision on whether or not I will resign or go back in the fall (mainly depends on if #2 ever happens).
. . . and the list could go on. But I thought I could give you a glimpse at what kind of things it seems like I’ve been waiting on for a long time.

I wish I could focus more on the wonderful things that I have in front of me right this second. Maybe I should take a minute and reflect on all those things that I listed above and see the bright side of them instead.

–Moving into our new house . . . we’re waiting on our closing date and are living with appoximately 1% of our belongings while everything else is stashed away in a million different places. We have been so blessed by the people who have been so willing to help us during this transition time. Kari and Matt opened up their house to us and are letting us stay with them in the interim. Melissa and Gregg are giving our cat a home since we had no place to put him. Rod and Jami are letting us keep a bunch of our stuff in their garage and are renting us a truck the day we are ready to move it all to our new house. My parents have volunteered to help us out by watching Brayden on some weekends, helping us pack and clean our old house.
A bunch of our friends were ready to come over tomorrow night and help us unload our PODS containers if we actually we going to close tomorrow. Rachel and Blake have watched Brayden many times for us while we looked for houses and then when we signed papers for our old house. Thank you SO much everyone for your love and support!

-Have a second child . . . we’re waiting and have been for what seems like an eternity (a bit over a year now) to have this longing come true. Even though we haven’t been able to get pregnant, I am so happy for those friends and family of mine who have been blessed during the past year with a pregnancy–so far, since we’ve been trying, three women in my small group have gotten pregnant, two of my sister-in-laws, two of my stepsisters and a good friend from high school. With each new “announcement”, I have been so sad for James and I, but my heart is gladdened by the blessing that all of these new babies will bring into the lives of everyone once they are born 🙂

-My photography business. . . I feel like I’m still just starting out and am SO nervous about everything. I’m waiting for the time where I’ll be confident and very successful at my new business. On the other hand, things have been progressing very well. I have weddings booked for this summer already (almost ten!), and have had some photo shoot jobs a couple times a month since starting out. I feel like word of mouth is working relatively well and I’ve been so happy to get my feet wet.

-Losing weight. . . Yeah. . . I’ll be waiting awhile on this one, because in order to lose weight, you actually have to DO something about it. I haven’t quite gotten the hang of that one yet. On a good note, James and I joined the Y in October and we love everything it has to offer. The one near our old house was amazing, huge and we loved it. It’s definitley family oriented. We’re a little sad now that we won’t be able to go to that one anymore, but hopefully we’ll figure something out!

-My teaching job. . . Still waiting on a decision on whether or not I will resign or go back in the fall (mainly depends on if #2 ever happens). What I should be thankful for is that I actually have something to fall back on if something were to happen in the next few months. I probably have to make this decision in less than a month because of my deadline, but at that point, I will finally be done waiting for what will happen next year in regards to my job.

So that’s that. The Waiting Game continues. But I should try to remind myself about the positive things in life before dwelling too much on what’s to come. 🙂