I'M BACK...

Another semester down, a new year on the horizon, plus a one year anniversary, has had me doing a lot of thinking and soul searching over here. I decided it may not be so easy to choose that thing you want to do for the rest of your life. It shouldn't be that easy, should it? Sometimes going back to the days of jumping off the school bus and running straight to my best friends house to play dolls, eat peanut butter and honey sandwiches, and read Junie B. Jones sounds like the life I want to live forever. But then I remember that would be a life without Michael, and a life without Michael would be a life with less laughter, thrift shopping, and Brazilian food. I wouldn't want that life.

Growing up isn't all that bad. It's just the major life decisions I feel like I am making on a daily basis that have me tossing and turning at night. This road I am currently traveling on is like a safari, but now that I think of it, the big bumps we'd hurtle over on the bus were what all us kids looked forward to each morning. Graduating from Junie B. Jones to Jurassic Park, and learning to make things like pizza and cookies from scratch is something I would never give up. So it is high time I think of college this way, and try to not let the fear of choosing a career keep me up at night. If there is anything I learned this year, is to keep your hobbies and things you love to do a priority in your life. I have been playing my music more, and pulling out those projects that were mentally stored away because my brain has been on overload these last few months. I am excited to make my (first) list of resolutions. Not to get skinnier or go eat, pray, love, on anyone, just to do those things that I love... more.

I was also worried that marriage was going to be hard on us this first year, but to my pleasant surprise, I have loved everything about being married to Michael P. and because we got married in the winter time, I have loved everything about this snowy weather. I wasn't always one for the cold, but I can't help but wake up with a giant grin on my face when it is snowing in the morning. It's also nice to have someone to talk to about all your crazy life dreams and goals, and actually listens because he will always be the biggest part of them-- and he has to object when I think moving across the world is the best idea I ever had.. even though it's "realistically not gonna happen." --- yet!

I am excited for the new year with that handsome man, I feel like it is going to best one so far.

Happy Sunday friends. Hope you survived finals. Have a Merry week.

P.S. This week has been one of those where you find $20 in an old coat pocket, and a necklace that you LOVE, but forgot about happens to reappear in that old purse you used to wear with that old coat. This random good fortune I can definitely do with, and there have been lots of naps and lazy days over here making for some pretty happy campers.