new year - middle of the school year - fresh beginnings but hope is needed

 6 months left of the "school year".  The calendar year just started today.   My desires are to start a new and make things "better".  Knowing what is necessary in the space I'm in is helpful to know that I am only going to do what I can and no more than that and that what I can do is going to be okay.   This is a hard lesson for me to take to heart when what I want is so much more than what I've been doing.  I think this is often a desire of parents - to do more than what we've been doing and wish we could figure out a way to change so that we can do more.  How?  What about ourselves can be altered so we can provide for our children in a way that is what we want.  

The only way we can do more is to know that what we are doing is what we are supposed to be doing.  No more is needed.  We are okay, they are okay, we are all okay.  Keep going and it will be fine.  Changes are amazing and great but if they don't meet your expectations you are still going to be just fine.

so with 6 months left I am excited that we've had four months done and six more to go.  1/3 of this school year is gone.  Hooray!  Getting closer to the end of the childhoods of my children.  Bitter sweet.