HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Ok, so I'm a couple days late, but at least it's still January!:D Wishing everyone a very happy 2012 filled with all kinds of joy and blessings and such!

My resolution this year is to make time for and appreciate more those who continue to love me in spite of myself and to love and accept others the same way. I find that it's all too easy with human nature to pick people apart and get caught up in petty differences, and I've been increasingly grateful for those who love me for who I am and in spite of what I look like, what I wear, my hair color, shoe size, personality, what I like to do or not do, my failures, whether or not I pluck my eyebrows or paint my toenails, my job, my hobbies, my background, whether or not I'm "hip," my weight, my height, my annoying habits, my opinions, my decisions, my love for purses and shoes, my lack of painting skills, my toothpaste brand, my car, my faith, my family, my cravings for Swedish Fish and chocolate, my political views or lack thereof, how often I wash my hair, yadda yadda yadda, etc. I'm learning(I know...it took long enuf!) that the people in my life that really matter(and I want to keep in my life) are the ones who encourage me in positive ways and really do love me for who I am and not anything else. I don't have to pretend to be anybody I'm not and can just be me...I always want to be the best person I can be, but am thankful that when I mess up, they love me anyway.;0) I'm grateful to be married to one such person, and to have more than one person of this nature in my life. I want to be the same toward them...and to teach my children to be the kind of people who love, accept and respect others in the same.

So there you have it...my New Year's resolution in a very long, drawn-out nutshell. I apologize for putting you through that. Next time I'll try for funny...maybe....;0)