{Thankful..for life at 37.. }

Lookin Back / steppin forward

.....Well I'm so thankful to have lived another year ...grown up a little more...and figured some things out..... didn't get much done from last years bucket list from this post  but I sure was busy and we did learn a lot together and made lots of memories. 

I am so thankful for the 37 years I've had so far..... I still can't believe time goes by so fast. I'm beginning to understand the I still feel 20 inside thing..... because I do. I can remember grade school like it was yesterday and here I am sending my little ones everyday to school.

 Time is key isn't it.... what we do with it, how we use it and where we are going with it .....quit looking backwards .....move forward take some new steps..... gain some new ground and work out what needs working out...every year I realize how short life really is how fragile it is and how fast it can be taken away!

SO today I'm thankful to be ME. I'm a little weird;)  but I'm Me.

I'm Thankful to have what I have.... more and more each year

 I'm Thankful to be the mother i get to be 

to the children I'm blessed to have. 

For the husband I love. 

and

for every single 37 yellow and white balloons he blew up for me

{thats true love cause he hates blowing up one balloon}

FOR The family I came from 

and 

for the life lessons I'm learning and Thankful for another year. 

I pray I have many many more.

 I'm excited for a new year and hope it holds all good things for all of us.

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So along with that and my bucket list from last year: 

A few weird {or not} things about me:

- I love black licorice but only the brand young and smylie I sometimes go to walmart for just that and buy 10 bags at a time

- I don't like getting flowers or jewelry I'm not that kind of girl I guess I'd rather spend my money on something else clothes maybe? a little addition ?

-I wash my face with only water every night {alternating days with a baking soda/coconut oil mixture}

- I sit in the same spot in church {if we aren't late ahhh} and at our kitchen table and park in the same general area of every big box store I shop at

- I don't care for chocolate like most people so I won't resolve to do that as the above says or sleep in on sundays anymore either since church is at 9 haha}

- I use a paper towel to open public bathroom doors and use my foot to flush the toilet and I line the toilet with tp first ewww:)

- I have really good willpower and use it:) 

just ask my friends that love to tease me about it.

- I love to check the mail and miss getting letters like the old days:)

- I don't like fantasy far fetched books or science fiction or third person written books

- I'm anal about what my kids wear to school just ask them ha ha "I have certain rules pertaining to how many days in a row you can wear that hoodie to school syndrome;)"

- I make my kids shower EVERY.SINGLE. MORNING. before school

- I eat the raisins out of maximum raisin bran {from superstore} and leave the bran;) D loves it;) well I sure do anyway ha ha weirdo I know

- I have moved 33 times in 37 years and have lived the longest in the town I am now:)

-I love to vacuum  I love lines in the carpet lol

- and looking over this i like smiley faces {a lot} ha 

- Okay enough of my quirks eh:)

Can I just say I love the face book love on birthdays makes a mom birthday a lot more exciting to feel loved and remembered today.....for the phone calls, my sweet sisters gift and visits and laughter and tears, all the texts and really its just nice to be remembered:)

Thank you all for reading my little blog for letting me rant, vent and share it nice to have a place to do that! 

So here's to another year for all of us:) 

Have a great 

snowy/sunny depending on where you live weekend

make it a good one:)

***Did you notice I HAVE MUSIC AGAIN YEA!!!!!
So excited ! Thanks Carly:)***