Random Thoughts

Today has been a very blah day but I am completely okay with that.  Winter break has been fabulous to me... not so much for my bank account but oh well. Spent a lot of time with my amazing friends with many plans still to come. I spent Christmas with my family at Lambeau field for my very first Packer game!! I was just like a kid in a candy store. On top of fulfilling a huge dream of mine of going to a Packer game, we got to spend it with my brothers girl friends family. I could not have asked for better company on Christmas, they were so welcoming and genuinely fun to be around!

This is a picture of my mom (left) me (middle), and brother Tommy (right)! These are the two most important people in my life. They have been there for me through thick and thin, and I can not thank them enough for how amazing they are. Tommy and I are both the luckiest kids in the world to have such an amazing mom! 

Any-who, Christmas day was an experience that I can hardly put into words! Christmas with my extended family is coming up this weekend, I can't hardly wait to see my cousins and to kick some butt in Monopoly!  ;) I've been practicing kids... (even though all my cousins still like to make fun of me for getting so angry during a game when we were kids that I pushed the board and ruined the rest of the game for them... oops)  

The holidays always seem to bring out the best and worst in people.  Why is it that people are so willing to fight with someone in a store for some item that they are going to give someone they love? Do they tell the recipient of the gift that they shoved someone out of the way so they could get that item for them? I sure hope people don't tell them what they did to get that gift!  This was the first year that we decided that we weren't going to get gifts, of course mom didn't follow that rule but it made us realize how much more important it is to spend time with each other than give silly materialistic gifts.  

2011 has taught me to appreciate all the little things.  To love the people that mean the most full heartedly and to let go of the things that I can not change.  I have loved and lost but I am still very great full for the time that I had with the people that I lost. 

One of my many goals for 2012 is to let go of the past and focus on the future and do what ever it takes to make ME unequivocally happy!