I can't believe that another decade has ended!
It seems like yesterday that everyone was in panic mode over Y2K!
People always say
"What do you hope to accomplish in the NEXT 10 years?"
In the year 2000 I said things like...
finally graduate from college (it took me 10 years!)
end my terrible relationship and find my TRUE love
start my career as a professional writer
continue my career as a singer
MAKE MORE MONEY
get out of debt
settle down in life
move back to Nashville (TN)
So, let's see... I completed most of the things on my list and then some
Although there are some of those things that I'm STILL working on!
(I married my TRUE love!)
(this is just too funny...)
(a very pregnant me...with my husband and my father)
I have really grown up in the past 10 years...
I've gone from being a single woman in my 20's to
being a married woman in my 30's with a little girl.
(waiting to deliver my baby girl...)
(holding her for the first time...)
I've sacrificed my career as a singer,
my extension of college (I wanted to get my Masters Degree),
and my love of the South.
I went back to Nashville, then to Florida, back to Nashville once or twice,
then BACK to Florida, back to Memphis and now here I am
in COLORADO????
Whoa! That was never in my 10 year plan!
But... I am happy.
I've learned to create a new career for myself
with the time that I do have being a stay-at-home mom.
I've learned responsibility...more than I can sometimes handle.
I've learned of new love....TRUE love.
The love that is known when you are happily married.
The love that is known when you are the mother to a BEAUTIFUL little girl.
So all in all, the last decade has taught me many lessons
and I've overcome many hardships,
but I have been given so many things to be thankful for.
I can only imagine what the next 10 years will bring.
I know there will be struggles and times of trouble...
but I anticipate all of the memories that have yet to be created...
all of the happiness and love that I have yet to experience.
My resolutions for 2010 are:
to live a healthier life...eat better, exercise...blah blah blah
to work harder on growing my business
to spend more quality time with my family
to not stress so much over the little struggles that come my way
to keep in touch with long distance friends
to start singing again
to cook more
to read more
to not be a door mat for people to walk all over
to find happiness in simple things
to move back South (maybe not this year..but someday)
to LOVE
to FORGIVE
to be HAPPY
How are your New Year's Resolutions different
from those you created 10 years ago?
How have you changed?
I wish you all many happy moments in 2010
filled with more LOVE and HAPPINESS
than you know what to do with!!!