This is My Forties

Hello again blogosphere!   Over the past month I have been evolving.  I've always believed that people come in and out of our lives at whatever time they're "supposed to" to teach us or help us.  Whether you learn or recognize the lesson is up to you.  This has happened throughout my entire life.  I can name a million lessons I've learned over the years from a once-stranger popping into my life at just the right time.  In fact, everyone I know falls under this category.  Sometimes these people stick around, sometimes they fade back into the background, but they're always an important part of my life.  Being able to see the connections we all have to each other has me in constant awe.  Everywhere we have been we've been fortunate to find amazing friends.  How?  Why?  Honestly I think it's because we're open to it and we welcome it in... we allow it to happen.  Before I start sounding too hippie and lose you all, allow me...

Happy 2012!  Josh and I have made some resolutions that I felt like mentioning, which also happen to be the same resolutions we've had a few times.  It might sound cliche, but this time we stinkin' mean it.  It even feels different.  We feel like real grown-ups making life changes instead of kids raising babies, trying to be responsible while still wanting to have fun.  We're grown now. #1 -  Quit smoking once and for all.  Never ever again.  EVER!  We've quit and started back up enough times to know that it is impossible for us to have "just one" cigarette and have that be it.  Impossible.  We had started back up when Josh's brother was in the hospital and swore we would quit when we got back home.  That was over 2 years ago.  Most people don't know I smoke because it's embarrassing for me, especially being a mother.  People assume awful things that are not true like I smoke in the house or car with my kids aroun...