Its a New Year!

What a fun year 2012 was.. well I can sum it up with a word EXHAUSTING!!

That is my 'Yearly word to live by.' Its a word that runs through my head often. The schedule we maintain can sound crazy at times; but its what makes it our life. Sometimes I complain but at the end of the day I wouldn't trade it for the world. Most of my friends have little kids and love being a stay at home Mom's I knew that was never in the cards for me and quite frankly I am not sure I could have done it anyway. However being a Working Mom hasn't stopped me from Volunteering at school or sports, being a Room Mom (Twice) running two kids to their sports, making dinners (or buying them) cleaning the house and doing Laundry.

I may not have a perfectly clean house like my Mom and the laundry may sit in the dryer for days, there may be dirty dishes and toilets that need cleaned but honestly I don't care because at the end of the day I am busy raising kids, kids that need me and want to be with me and Love that I am their biggest fan on the side line of any sporting event. My kids are growing up so FAST too fast some days and I look at them and realize here soon they wont need me as much, it will all change no matter how hard I pray that it wont, they will have friends and social calendars and high school... UGH!  Then I can clean toilets and fold laundry and have a clean house for when they are home. I hope to keep my home open to their friends I hope to be that Mom they want to be with even with they get older. So for now all of the other stuff can wait, and I am going to try to embrace the moments I have left and make as many memories as I can with them.

I also want to work in a little time for me each week, with the kids getting older and their schedules as crazy as ever I can make excuses not to go to the gym or get my nails done or just read a book. This year I am going to make time for me I want to learn to knit and sew and get creative again, I figure I can share these experiences with my kids too, maybe an ugly sweater or a cute scarf. I am excited to see what this year brings for us, I may say 'No' to somethings if my plate is too full, but who am I kidding if someone needs the help and I am able to do it I most likely will add it to the never ending to do list. There is still so much I want to do and accomplish in this life that I can sit at home and do nothing when I get OLD!
The last item on the list is the nagging voices of certain people telling me date again, I am ready to get my feet wet but honestly online dating is creepy and you see the same guys on there that you would see in a bar on a Friday night the Lake Norman area, I am over the bar scene and meeting someone in the grocery store line only happens in the movies. Soooo when Mr. Right comes around I will let you know, I have settled for putting myself out there some, I would be open to a few blind dates or girls nights out and other than than that I am just going to live my life. I have over come heart break and lies and deceit I can wait around for Mr Right a little longer. I have grown so much this last year and come to the conclusion that a Man wont make me happy I had to make myself happy first. And I think I am headed in the right direction. Waiting to see what the future holds for me.

Here is to 2013! Blessings to you and your families.