2013, Moving Forward!

"Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'..."
-Alfred Tennyson

We would like to wish you and yours a very happy new year!  May 2013 bring magic and fabulousness to all.  We rang in the new year just like I had wished.  Peacefully.  I couldn't have asked for anything better.  I think I am getting too "mature" for the craziness of new year's eve.  Mature as in old.  Craziness as in loud and drunk people.  And, if you had a little mishap at the beginning of your year at least you aren't the Ziggles.  Ziggy Marley had to ring in the new year with an eclectic, um, ridiculous haircut.  Good thing the husband doesn't aspire to become a pet groomer.  Ziggy, I am sorry!

Unlike many others I am not one for resolutions.  All I would like for this new year is to become the best version of myself possible.  To become a better wife, a better daughter, a better sister and a better friend.  I want to keep learning more and more about myself.  When I stop to reflect I realize that everyday I learn something new.  The more I learn the more I want to discover.  Who knew that being an adult isn't all that bad.  Recently I read in one of the blogs I follow (I can't remember which, sorry) that "comparison is the thief of joy".  I could not agree more.  When you compare your lives to others you forget to live your own life.  You rob yourself of YOUR happy moments.  And there is not one thing that can replace those.  I hope that all the days of 2013 may bring you joy, good health and success.  Don't allow yourself to be hung up on what could have been.  Those days are in the past, leave them there.  Be grateful, be humble and most importantly be compassionate.  Not everyone is as blessed as you are.

Something inside of me tells me that the best is yet to come.  Something inside me tells me that this year will be absolutely wonderful.  Something inside me tells me that this year will be the catalyst to all the wonderful blessings waiting right around the corner.

May your home be warm and filled with love this year, because, love truly does make the world go round.

xoxo