2013!! New Year....time to get things RIGHT! RIGHT?

I think for all of us, there comes a YEAR...a YEAR that sticks with us and we still believe that its still that year.......for me, I feel like I am still in the early 2000's....BUT when I see that its 2013.....I think "what happened?? How did we get to 2013 already!?" I then start calculating dates...I've been with Hubby for NINE YEARS!? My KIDS are now 7, 5 and 3!!?? I am what AGE......???? It all goes by FAST! Too FAST! See what happens when you are having FUN!!

Hubby and I ended 2012 quietly...watching some TV after the kids were tucked in.....we giggled our way into 2013...uncontrollably at times... to the point where your sides ache and you cant breathe any more and the tears are flowing down your face...a REAL GOOD LAUGH!! And NO...we were not drunk...slightly tipsy...laughing like BEST FRIENDS....isn't that a GREAT WAY to bring in the New Year!? I think so!! I LOVE the relationship that we have......LOVERS and BEST FRIENDS!!  Are we all so LUCKY!?

So..its 2013! Its around this time of the year that SOME come up with NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS! Do you have any? I know eventually some will fail....that's what "experts" say when the gyms are FULL in January and EMPTY in March....if YOU are ONE to KEEP your RESOLUTION, all the POWER to you! How do you do it!? For me I want to BANISH all IDIOTS....which should be EASY, most of them are on Facebook....gotta LOVE and HATE Facebook...it does keep you connected with Friends/Family...but sometimes the IDIOTS creep through and finally you wonder, "why am I reading this GARBAGE from them...there is more to life...why am I letting them bother me....." finally I delete the person!! No complaints yet!

After all....this is what 2013 should be about!

Secondly.....I want to SAVE...which is hard on ONE INCOME, THREE KIDS, Mortgage etc etc etc...... which leads into STRETCHING things out. I WILL MAKE THINGS STRETCH to the point where I cant use it any more!! For example....last night I made a Roast Chicken Dinner...Hubby said it was the BEST that I ever made(wish I remembered exactly how I did it...I rarely follow directions...always a splash of this and that)...and for tonight, I took the leftovers and made SOUP...adding more of this and that...sprinkle here and there...handful of that and this!! AND it TASTES YUMMY!! There is enough WASTEFULNESS in this WORLD...we need to teach our CHILDREN!! And it all starts at HOME....

Thirdly.....I want to be MORE CREATIVE.....creative in REFURBISHING, Writing, Baking and Cooking....I don't feel fully satisfied UNLESS I have been CREATIVE for some part of the day! My kids keep me busy and I LOVE being a PARENT....but there are times that I need to be CREATIVE for ME!! That's usually when I get them INVOLVED with what I am doing.....and they LOVE it!!  More often its BAKING...hence the WOMANLY HIPS.....hmmm, maybe I should sneak in another Resolution...the GYM! But lets face it...I'm going to break that Resolution!!! I'll just walk more! To the store to buy the Baking ingredients! HA!

Lastly I just want to be HAPPY with the LIFE I have! We only get ONE...make it count!!
So...I am going to try to WRITE MORE BLOGS, recipes, stories, LOVE my KIDS and my HUBBY, plan for the FUTURE...save and make the DOLLAR STRETCH!! What are you going to do in 2013!? I know it will be a GREAT YEAR...I ended it LAUGHING the NIGHT away and then I awoke to a BEAUTIFUL, SUNNY MORNING!!!

January 1, 2013!! Great start to the YEAR!!