A Girl's Guide To Therapy

1. Clean a space (notice I did not say your whole freaking house - pick 1 closet or 1 bathroom or even 1 drawer)
***Get a sitter if you have small children and complete the rest of the list***
2. Go work out
3. Go tanning (fake or real doesn't matter)
4. Buy yourself something (new nail polish, new shoes, new shirt, new pen..whatever)
5. Pick up a Diet Coke, Sobe, Sugar free lemonade (whatever floats your boat) for the drive home.
Wa-la - You may not be cured but I guarantee you will feel better!!!

Head Games, 'my take' and Reality

Lately (like the whole holiday season) and since then I have been deep inside my head on this one. It could just be the ages of my kids, it could be the fact I have a special needs child, it could be I'm over analyzing this.  This is the deal....  I am for the most part a glass half full person.  I really really believe in looking for the positive, speaking of the positive and throwing the positive to the universe.  I look forward with positive anticipation to events that are planned in my life, I like having things to look forward too, for me it wards off depression.  Example: I was totally looking forward to the SFO trip to watch the Steelers back in December with Indy.  It was nothing close to what I had envisioned in my head.  Indy was sicker than sick, we had to run for our flight (because I forgot my license) we were late getting to the game, the stadium had a black-out and shut the gates so we were even later getting into our seats, the dumb Steelers couldn't score a single touchdown, we had to wait 2.5hours in line for a taxi after the game.  On the other hand....We have the tradition in December of taking the kids to get an ornament on the Christmas Porch at Rainbow Gardens in Ogden.  This place if full of breakable things.  With my children including Dennis the Menace I was not looking forward to this, in fact I was dreading it!!!  It turned out awesome.  My kids were great, we didn't break or accidentally steal anything in the store.  So???? do I go around thinking everything is going to SUCK and then be pleasantly surprised??  That kind of shoots my whole 'be positive theory'.  So what's 'my take'?  I'm honestly not sure.  When someone asks me about our trip to SFO I can say it was horrible!!!  Or I could say we had awesome seats and it was incredible to see the players that close.  Both 'takes' are true.  I guess reality is both.  What do you think?

Science Project

Master's science project of course involved chocolate...can't imagine where he gets that from.

And that's a wrap....

Ok all my posts between Christmas and New Years are not even close to in order...Honestly the season was a bit of a blur.  Lots to do, lots to see, parties, family etc. etc. you name it.  2011 was a good year.  In review there are things we could have done better and others we did well.  As the author here I can only speak for myself... I recently saw a quote on pinterest that I loved; I didn't know at the time how to pin and now I can't find it but the jist was this: "let go of the drama and surround yourself with people that you love and make you laugh so hard you cry"  for me this is my family and my friends.  Thanks for a great year!