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When Grem­lin was 3, we lost all his under­oos in var­i­ous homes in a mat­ter of 2 months.

Robin’s fun writ­ing prompt!

I sit here think­ing I should be doing some­thing about this 40 thing. Like maybe let­ting “him” know I’m here. *eye roll*

Hurry up and wait.

I’m not sure how I’m sup­posed to feel at 40, but I don’t feel any dif­fer­ent than yes­ter­day when I was 39.

It was so much cooler turn­ing 10…double digits!!

Then 20 felt a lit­tle old — all these peo­ple expected so much from me…all these old geezers…they were prob­a­bly 32.

Turn­ing 30 meant I had to have my act together…I didn’t.

Now I’m 40…I kinda have my act together…at least I tell my chil­dren that. No need wor­ry­ing them.

So, Mr. Forty (I don’t know why he’s a Mr, but he just is!),

I’m going to stand on top of that tall loom­ing moun­tain you’ve cre­ated, called “Over the Hill”, and face the other side with a brazen look on my face and true to my name­sake, I will laugh wild and loud!

{…so there…}

Cur­rently…

1. LISTENING: To my boys defeat zom­bies on Roblox, Boomer chas­ing rab­bits in her dreams, Norah Jonas crooning.

2. EATING: The hottest South Indian soup known to mankind (burns out the aller­gies) and Wheat Thins.

3. DRINKING: Watered down Diet Coke from Braum’s…from lunch. (The ice tea isn’t done yet.)

4. WEARING: Long-sleeve gray t-shirt, jeans…and new con­tacts (Thank­ful for the lit­tle things!)

5. FEELING: Con­tent, accomplished…ready to take on my last semes­ter of classes!

6. WEATHER: It was beau­ti­ful today! It’s stinkin’ Jan­u­ary 5th and Old­man was wear­ing shorts!

7. WANTING: A per­sonal assis­tant for work!

8. NEEDING: Clothes…but not until I lose another size. *seri­ous eyes*

9. THINKING: It feels good to blog again…I’ve missed this…

10. ENJOYING: Home­school­ing Old­man. It was hard today, but I know it would be so much worse if I wasn’t teach­ing him.

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I love doing this so I can look back and remem­ber these days.

Today, Old­man learned what the word “Hooker” means. We’re both a lit­tle sad…

Any­one with a child knows that bound­aries can be hard to main­tain, but they make life so much sim­pler in the long run.

I gave up New Year Res­o­lu­tions years ago. It was just another dis­ap­point­ment that I had to over­come.  I thought doing away with res­o­lu­tions made me a super cool rebel­lious chick. Lame, I know. #shaddup  It occurred to me this past year, that hav­ing no set res­o­lu­tions isn’t rebel­lious, but actu­ally quite smart. It was just miss­ing one key item…boundaries. Bound­aries keep you in check with motives, goals and dreams. There’s noth­ing wrong with not set­ting spe­cific goals, but you bet­ter have bound­aries in place so you are at least mov­ing for­ward towards something.

The right wall along my path stops me from wan­der­ing into the Field of Unhealthy Lifestyle. The left wall keeps me out of the Pit of Too Many Yes’s.  Along the way there are stop signs which remind me to pause and reflect on my path and recent deci­sions. There are also yield signs that allow peo­ple and ideas to join me on my path. If those things become some­thing that does not belong on my path, I send them on a new path at the next stop sign.

These bound­aries help me feel so much more con­fort­able with deci­sions. I don’t get nearly as dis­tracted and frus­trated. Obvi­ously this is my moti­va­tion path. My per­sonal path looks a bit dif­fer­ent. I have a lot more yields…it allows me to open myself up to oth­ers that sharp­ens my spirit.

I hope the path to your goals find you with many flex­i­ble deci­sions and won­der­ful sur­prises along the way…

Happy 2012!

For the first time in almost a year, I was able to work the entire day on just what I love to do…social media strat­egy. I bought a com­pany to be able to do this every day, as a job instead of as a hobby. As most busi­ness own­ers know, you always end up doing what­ever it takes to get the job done. I feel like I’ve been doing every­thing. I don’t mind it entirely, but it’s not my love.

I read a quote on Pin­ter­est the other day that said (kind of sort of in a way):

Want to know where your heart lies?…what do you think about when your mind wanders…that’s it.

I think of Twit­ter chats I’m miss­ing, short-term and long-term goals for social media clients and Bound­less, and how to tweak those goals weekly. It actu­ally sounds a bit geeky in writ­ing, but it’s what I love.

And today felt ful­fill­ing for the first time in ages.

Before the guilt of “what about your fam­ily?” comes in — my fam­ily will thank me for doing what I love. They know what’s like being around a frus­trated momma who is work­ing like a dog doing some­thing that just needs to be done.  Don’t get me wrong…as I teach my boys…sometimes you just have to do what needs to be done because that’s life.  So when you do get to do what you love, it’s so much more rewarding!

~My back doesn’t ache — I got up about every hour and stretched/taught Londin/rough-housed with the dogs.
~My headache went away with­out med­i­cine - Adren­a­line is an amaz­ing thing!
~My patience with Old­man was actu­ally present — Yeah!

I look for­ward to more of these days in 2012!