I gotta tell ya, I’m pretty happy the holidays are over. I mean I clearly love twinkly lights and anticipating snowy days that never come; and the faces my son made everytime he saw a minimum wage makin’ Santa were really something to be savored. But *breaths deeply in* there is nothing like a fresh breath of January sub degree temperature to really sting your lungs and choke you back into reality. 

Summer is nowhere in sight. Our spring is probably stuck inside that lost BabyGap box with Maverick’s Christmas sneakers. But hey, it could be worse. Something about January makes you want to be good and be better and make all these promises to yourself that you’re gonna lose umpteen pounds and not eat sugar anymore. Me? I opted to try out what being a vegan is like – and so far so good. Other than that I made zero changes, not one resolution, and made myself only one promise of TRYING to be more present. Aka: put the phone down, also so far so good.

Last night we celebrated my husband’s 33rd trip around the sun. We started out at the fancy Mazzone place in CPC where the soup and shrimp were bomb but I was less than impressed with their coconut pie that came highly recommended at $9. Next we ventured over to the good old Nail where we indulged in good food and drinks with two good friends❤️. Veered off my veganism for a hot minute, had a live stream of videos and pictures with a play by play of Maverick’s night out with Gaga, Poppops and Aunt Al. All in all it was a success.

My not so proud moments of 2016 so far are the ones I’ll also try to share more of: my non-highlight reel. 

I’m not sure if it was in 2016 yet or the tail end of ’15 , but my taking the Christmas tree out in hopes to impress Dan into thinking I’m….. Uh….. Capable of “manly” chores did not go over very well. It lead to me sitting on the carpet with the vacuum hose for two hours, and I felt like I was litruhleeeeee coloring the carpet. I hope you understand this visual, if not, I’m sorry, I’ll work on imagery this year. Anyway, to my surprise you can’t drag the tree out from the top! Which would be much more convenient because that’s how it fell 😂 But you actually just turn that little bastard around and drag his fat ass out first and the rest follows suit and makes the job “eeeeeasier” ….. Ok.👌🏽.  The entire time my poor little son watched the magic of Christmas struggle out the door wondering “where kees-miss goin?” I felt terrible, I really did. Until I didn’t. And realized he would quickly move on too because: kids are amazing little creatures who are easily distracted by minions fruit snacks and noisy trucks 🚚🍒🎉

Ok and here’s another for my lowlight reel (leave it to the hairdresser 😂👌🏽✨) let’s flash back to New Year’s Eve! I worked all day until, like, 7:30 and I was so hungry (and PMS-ing-omg) that I went into price chopper (for my beautiful husband who asked me to pick up a couple spices for a fancy new vegan dish he was preparing for us) and couldn’t help but buy a box of triscuits and a jar of artichokes (new obsession) and proceed to the check out. I got into my mom-mobile, and removed my fancy new cold-weather coat as to not spill any oil from the jar, and had myself a little hors d’oeuvre (just had to talk to text that baby) a la GMC. Had I hit a new low? Or a new high? I couldn’t quite tell.

Anywho – sticking with my goal for the new year, let me wrap this up. I haven’t started the Netflix phenomenon about the non-murderer from out West, but I plan on it. I am super into Ben the bachelor and I’m not apologizing for it. I’m pissed that Nashville doesn’t air again until March. And I don’t have Apple TV so I’m off to buy some doodad so I can watch Netflix on a bigger screen than my iPhone 6 since the iPad stopped belonging to me as soon as Mav discovered he knew how to swipe right and open up YouTube and even has a favorite toy review he loves to watch. 

Happy new year! Cheers to your lowlight reel, your weight gain, and your empty promises 🙂 seriously though, don’t be so hard on yourself! And enjoy a little more this year! XO