{"id":2973,"date":"2014-01-27T08:23:48","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T13:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=2973"},"modified":"2014-02-21T14:07:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T19:07:50","slug":"picking-a-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/27\/picking-a-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Picking a Path"},"content":{"rendered":"

I feel like I\u2019ve come to a place where my life is stagnant.\u00a0 I\u2019ve come to the realization that the things I am doing are not taking me where I want to go.\u00a0 And now I\u2019m stuck with the decision: do I stick with what I\u2019ve been doing and accept the disappointing results or do I sacrifice to take a risk and try to get what I want even though it may take me backwards?<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know when \u201cmid-life\u201d is or if I\u2019m there, but I do know for a fact, this isn\u2019t any kind of mid-life crisis.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been here before, more times than I\u2019d like to admit.\u00a0 But all the other times my decision was easy: I ran away.<\/p>\n

\"DSC00063<\/a>\u00a0All of my other times of frustration coincided with new opportunities for hubby.\u00a0 These were the times when we moved from here to there, half way across the world and back.\u00a0 When I became frustrated with my job in Oklahoma, hubby was interviewing for jobs all over the country.\u00a0 When I became frustrated with my jobs as Honeybun\u2019s first year wound down, hubby got the opportunity to move to Dublin.\u00a0 As I became lonely and disenchanted in Dublin, hubby\u2019s contract ended and we were given the choice to move back.<\/p>\n

Running away isn\u2019t always the best option and I can\u2019t say it ever really took me where I wanted to go, but what it did always give me was hope.\u00a0 The hope that it would be better.\u00a0 The hope that the opportunities I wanted would be available.\u00a0 The hope that it would take me where I wanted to go.<\/p>\n

Hubby and I have come to realize we\u2019re nomads.\u00a0 We aren\u2019t meant to be in one place for too long.\u00a0 The longest we\u2019ve ever lived in the same city since graduating college was our first time in South Florida and that was only 2 \u00bd years.\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s not that we like to give up (ok, maybe I do just a little bit) but that we like to take advantage of new opportunities and love new adventures. \u00a0Of course, taking chances and new opportunities is becoming increasingly difficult as we now have 3 tiny tag-alongs that weigh heavily on every decision we make.<\/p>\n

Of course the running away option doesn\u2019t seem to be in the cards right now and so I\u2019m back to my choice: keep going and be thankful for what I\u2019ve got or take a chance on something with the hope it will be better, knowing it could be even worse?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I feel like I\u2019ve come to a place where my life is stagnant.\u00a0 I\u2019ve come to the realization that the things I am doing are not taking me where I want to go.\u00a0 And now I\u2019m stuck with the decision: do I stick with what I\u2019ve been doing and accept the disappointing results or do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-mommys-life","category-mommy-time","category-work-it-out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2973"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3237,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions\/3237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}