January

I recently read somewhere that "January is the Monday of the months".  I laughed, and I understood what it meant.  Of course it is the beginning, but it is more than that.  There is the joy that the year is fresh and absolutely anything can happen this year.  It all starts good!  However, it isn't long before the newness of it all begins to fade, and the doldrums of the month set in.  There really isn't much exciting about January.  The holidays are in the rear view and now we realize how much money we spent and how much weight we gained.  The weather is cold and there just isn't much about which to look forward.  It is so easy to start thinking about to "better" days.

I'll be honest though, I really enjoyed our cold and snowy weather from this weekend.  My kid spent lots of time at a pool, but we still had a whole more time at home together than we otherwise might have been able to do.  I'm never sad about that.  As I explained to someone this weekend, "I am an extroverted introvert," and cold weather gives me the opportunity to hibernate when I need to do so!