New Years Resolutions

This is the time of year that we start to think of our New Years Resolutions

I'm not one to make resolutions about
weight loss
or
building better habits

I try instead to be more mindful
I try to choose something to meditate on

sometimes I'm successful

and sometimes I'm not

2012 will be a big year

and what I keep coming back to

is

patience

patience patience patience

I need to practice patience with others -- in every day situations -- I must not "fling the cheese"

I need to practice patience with family and friends and they absorb the enormity of my adoptive choices and struggle to understand

I need to practice patience with my future child(ren) -- and understand that their world has not just become magically wonderful -- and we will all take time be become a family

and I need to practice patience with myself.
I will not be perfect
I will not be close to perfect

and I don't have to be.

Yes

a good thing to work on this year