My New Year's Resolutions

  2012 is almost over.  Two more days of it and then it will be 2013.
  I never make resolutions because I just don't keep them past Jan. 2nd.
  But this year I have a few.

My Resolutions:

1. I want to be a better mother to my children.  I feel like I am a good mother but I know that there is room for improvement.  I love my kids with all my heart and they are the best part of me.
2. I want to be a better wife.  I'm good wife but maybe I can be a little better.
3. I want to be a better sister to my sisters and a better sister in-law to my sisters in-law.  
4. I want to be a better daughter to my father.
5. I want to be a better daughter in-law to my in-laws
6. I want to be an awesome grandmother.
7. I want to be a better nurse and be more compassionate and empathetic.  I want to be a better employee to my boss.
8. 1 want to laugh more
9. I want to have more faith
10. I want to be a better aunt to my all my nieces.
11. I want to be a better mom to all my furrbies.
12. I want to have more fun.
13. I want to learn how to relax more.
14. I want to be a better child of God.
15. I want to be more tolerant of other people.  Even the ones I want to smack up side the head with a brick.

I really just want to be a BETTER person.

I think everyone should want to be a better person.  It would make life so much more pleasant if that was what we all strived for.

I wish everyone a VERY HAPPY 2013!

What Christmas is really about!

  Christmas to me is really about family.  Tonight I spent the evening with my family.  I had all my chicks under one roof for a little while.  Jessi and Jimmy came over with the baby.  We had supper and just visited with each other.  Tomorrow will be so busy that I just wanted a little family time of my own.  It was really nice.
   Yesterday,  I spent the day at my sister's house with both my sisters, all of my nieces,  Jessi and Butterbean and let's don't forget my brother in-law Dan.  Besides Snookie the dog and Puma the cat he was the only male in the house.  My two boys opted not to go. 

  I haven't seen Olivia - my youngest sister - since she moved to Tennessee in May.  She is doing really well and she looked so good and happy.  Gone was the gaunt, hollow, hopeless look.  In it's place is a healthy, happy, hopefull look.  She has made great strides and she is well on her way to becoming the woman she deserves to be.







  I always have fun with my sisters.  Next to Ricky,  Lea is the only person that can make me truely laugh.  As with him,  she is the only person I can be 100% myself with.  You know,  in the course of my day I have to be so many different things to so many different people.  I am comfortable just being me with her and vice versa.



  Tomorrow we will spend the day at Ms. Alice's with other half of my family.   They are a good bunch of folks too and I enjoy being with them.



   So to me,  Christmas is not about material things.  It's about family.  Mine is the single most important aspect in my life.  The true meaning of Christmas is love and family.
   God sent his son Jesus to us out of love for us so that we could become part of His family.

  

MERRY CHRISTMAS!