saying good-by to 2013

I hope to start the blog refreshed and with many more posts in 2014.  I find myself reading blogs about others lives and wishing I could document the many memories in our life that so quickly slip by..  While it is easy to dwell on the negative and believe me there has been a lot of that going on the past couple of years and even more the past few months, my life has been filled with so many blessings that many others do not have.    I have been wanting to start a gratitude journal and so with the blog I hope to journal the greatest moments of each day and let those negative moments be the ones that slip by.

And so to say good-bye to 2013 I'm going to remember the great things that happened.  My top 10 list of 2013!

10.  Kaylin began preschool in a Montessori classroom
9.    I passed all of my teaching exams and the EPI program
8.    I was hired at teacher interview day as a 3rd grade teacher
7.    I spent a week in May in Costa Rica living pura vida!
6.    Spring break we went on a Disney cruise with mom
5.    A week at Sanibel Island in July with just the girls
4.    I began school and acquired 34 amazing new kids!
3.    I treated myself to the iphone 5 for my birthday
2.    Kaylin turned 4 and is (much too) quickly becoming my big girl 
1.    We were able to spend Christmas together as a family and Santa became real this year!

If you know me you know I love me some Jason Mraz, and definitely the song of the past year, the one that I listen too whenever I need a reminder is"Living in the Moment."

If this life is one act
Why do we lay all these traps
We put them right in our path
When we just wanna be free

I will not waste my days
Making up all kinds of ways
To worry 'bout all the things
That will not happen to me

So I just let go
Of what I know I don't know
And I know I only do this by

Living in the moment
Living my life
Easy and breezy
With peace in my mind
With peace in my heart
With peace in my soul
Wherever I'm going,
I'm already home
Living in the moment

I'm letting myself off the hook
For things I've done
I let my past go past
And now I'm having more fun
I'm letting go of the thoughts
That do not make me strong
And I believe this way
Can feel the same for everyone

And if I fall asleep
I know you'll be the one
Who'll always remind me

To live in the moment
Living my life
Easy and breezy
With peace in my mind
With peace in my heart
With peace in my soul
Wherever I'm going,
I'm already home

I can't walk through life facing backwards
I have tried,
Tried more than once to just make sure
And I was denied
The future I'd been searching for
I spun around and hurt no more