New Years Resolutions......

Everyone always has the same standard list of New Years Resolutions...
-Eat Healthier
-Stop Eating Out as Much
-Hit the Gym More
-Start Running
-Be on Time
-Go Back to School
-Ect...Ect...Ect....

Nine times out of ten, these resolutions never make it past the first week.... (We have all done this, even if we don't admit it...) This year is going to be different... This year my first resolution was to start a blog... Check.... I am going to take great strides to document and capture all of my family's joys, and yes, I'm sure there will be some struggles in there too, as we have 5 munchkins!  We had major, life changing events happen last year and I feel like it was mostly a blur... I was focused on the end goal and never stopped to savor the little moments, The Simple Joys.... I truly feel like is missed everything. I was less than present for most of the major events, the beautiful precious fleeting events that are over so quickly with small children.... It actually brings tears to my eyes how much I was just going through the motions to get to the "end result"... I have missed so very much. One of my "just make it to the end" events was my very last pregnancy. I was on bed rest and utterly consumed with "staying pregnant" that I missed all the little beautiful joys of being pregnant, not to mention everything else that I missed around me... And the day he was born, I hardly remember at all....(but that's an entirely different post altogether).....

So, here it goes.... My Revised List of Resolutions

-To be Present, not just here, but relishing in being here
-To Document all of it (where the blog and any readers I may acquire come in)
-To do everything with Heart
-To SEE The Simple Joys and bathe my soul in them