Welcome 2017!

Hi everyone!!
So it has been forever since I posted and now that the holidays are over I feel like I can reset my focus and look to 2017! Of course the lull won't last for long...just a couple months and hopefully spring will begin to show its face! I am very excited about this year and what it holds! Hopefully I will be able to announce the start of my new business, Lord willing and embark on new adventures in my life.

Now I know this time of year is popular for New Year's resolutions and if your like me you are not a huge fan of them and don't really make any. I mean how many people actually stick to them? Instead of making yearly resolutions that often get forgotten as the year goes on, I think ever day we should wake up with a resolve to improve our lives and the lives of others around us. It doesn't have to be specific unless you want it to be. Just simply choosing to be positive instead of negative in life. One of things I have decided to do is to take to heart two popular phrases. "Laughter is the best medicine", and "Don't take yourself too seriously". Anyone who knows me, knows that I can take myself waaay to seriously sometimes! :) I am a perfectionist and if I don't live up to my ridiculous expectations (that no mortal human being could live up to!) I can be extremely hard on myself. I even judge my own self whenever I make a silly mistake that's not a big deal or even when I laugh at something but am afraid others won't see the humor in it. So I have decided it is time to lighten up and give myself permission to have a little fun. Now of course this doesn't mean being careless, but to accept the fact that I am human and I will make mistakes but often it's not the end of the world. If I trip over my words (or actually trip over things) I can laugh it off. If I do something funny, I can laugh at myself instead of judging myself. I can go around my house belting 80s music like a rockstar, break out into dance in the barn aisle way, get visibly excited about the silliest of things like fresh cut, "beautiful" hay bales, a newly drug arena, and sweet smelling stall shavings, roll the windows and blast music, and laugh until the tears come. I need to accept God's gift of laughter more often and maybe one day when I'm old I can look at the wrinkles and know where they came from. No matter how young or old you are I think it's never a bad thing to think about how you want to be remembered someday. Life is short and everything can change in the blink of an eye, but our legacy and the impression we leave on people can last generations and many more New Year's to come. So how about we make a lasting day by day commitment in our lives to be the person who truly laughed, loved, and lived.