New Year's Resolutions

     Another year has come and gone.  2013 was a pretty significant year for me.  I faced huge heart break, but even bigger successes.  I got my first "real" job teaching first grade in Noel, MO.  Both a grade and a place I never imagined myself being in, but a job I wouldn't leave for anything.

 I celebrated three years of marriage with my husband, as well as seven years of putting up with each other's nonsense.

I stepped out of my comfort zone and had pictures taken, on my own, after I won a Facebook contest involving body love (and I did it in a dress!).

  2013 was also the year I decided to speak out about something I had been struggling with silently for two years: the chance that I wasn't able to successfully have children on my own.

    New Year's is a time when everyone sets resolutions.  May be to lose the weight, exercise more, save more better, be a better person.  I set them last year, and held to very, very few of them.  But not this year.  This year, 2014, I only have one:

Live as though I am already pregnant.

     What do I mean?  I mean making better choices when it comes to what I allow in my body: less soda, less sugar, less salt, less crap.  I mean being more active by walking more or riding my bike.  I mean loving my body, just the way it is, and the life I hope to create with it. I mean taking my prenatal vitamins EVERY SINGLE DAY without accidentally forgetting.  I mean being kinder to those around me to leave a better world for my future baby.  I mean saving money in order to give him or her (or them :D) the life they deserve.  It means not being afraid to talk about my struggle (and you shouldn't be afraid to ask me about it).

     It's crazy, isn't it, how one simple sentence can sum up so much?