New Year!

Hey everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful New Year's Celebration! I did-aside from the fact I had to work all day on New Year's Day so I couldn't stay up too much past midnight! I remember the days of begging Mom and Dad to let me try and stay up ALL night long..."those were the days"...(that was a reference to the show "All in the Family" for those of you who didn't pick up on that! haha. I have been doing a lot of thinking lately about a New Year's Resolution for myself. Of course, there is the classic one that everyone has to lose weight, but I wanted something more than that. I have been doing a lot of thinking. 2010 was an awesome year! The best part of it being the birth of Adalyn in June. She is such a blessing to our family!

2010 was also a difficult year-one where I learned a lot about myself in many different situations. I know that there is not one family that is perfect. But it seems like a lot of people put on a show because they don't want other people to know that there is any problem. I used to be that way...and I still am to an extent. I have always been the kind of person who wants to get along with everybody. I hate fighting, and I would do anything for anyone. If I offended anyone I would feel awful. I would never say no to anyone-even if it made my day super crazy and I would feel like I don't have time for what they were asking me to do-I would do anything anyone asked of me.

Over the last year I have learned there are limits. I have learned the hard way not to let yourself be taken advantage of because they know that I would say yes to anything. This is a lesson that I think could only be learned the hard way-at least for me. I do still love to help people and do what I can to help people, but I am more aware of who I trust and who I don't trust.

So! After that long description- my New Year's Resolution is this:
To be charitable to other people, but to be more aware of people at the same time.

We will see how this goes...