A Year In Review

My news feeds have been blasted the last few days with observations of the previous year and declarations to make this new year better than the last.  I'm not big on resolutions, mainly because I'm not very resolute. So I can't say I have plans to live dramatically different in 2015 than I did in 2014, but a new year does warrant some reflection. So let's take a look at the 14 things I learned in 2014:

1.  Skinny jeans are not my friend.

2.  How to make my MIL's Thanksgiving dressing. 

3.  Not to borrow other people's clothes. It may seem sexy to wear your husband's shirt and high heels to perform a little striptease, but be careful about borrowing his clothes. Or the first words out of his mouth when he sees you might be "Is that one of my dry-clean only shirts? Are you wrinkling it?"

4.  It's hard to perform a striptease while crying.

5.  Putting lotion on before using a laptop makes it almost impossible to use the touchpad.

6.  Don't celebrate or conceded too early. You never know what's going to happen during the last minute of the 4th quarter.

7. Kenny Rogers was right. Not everyone deserves to be part of your life.  You've got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away and know when to run.

8. I don't get motivated seeing pictures of skinny girls with flat abs and big boobs in teeny tiny workout clothes. It usually just makes me depressed.  And hungry.

9.  I no longer feel obligated. I'm definitely not as nice as I once was but I'm beginning to believe that being "nice" is overrated.

10. When a girls wants to be a princess, you let her!

11. I've been doing the self-checkout line wrong this entire time. Thank you to the random guy in Walmart who felt the need to chew me out for doing it wrong, I don't know how I would have managed without you.

12.  I'm never going to be perfect. Maybe next year I'll actually learn how to accept that.

13. The older my girls get, the more I enjoy parenthood. I miss the baby stage a lot. But I'm really digging this independent thing.  They wake up on weekends now and turn on the tv in my bedroom and watch cartoons. On their own. While I sleep. It is awesome.

14. God takes care of it all. 

My plan is to fill up 2015 with as much love and laughter as I can and I hope the same for you.  Make it a great year!