More Smiles....

So far, we have been a little distracted from our goal. First Christmas and New years came, and then Spencer went back to school, and now basketball has started. Also my Birthday.... so.... now that all of these holidays are finally done we can concentrate fully. Spencer and I have both been trying to look for opportunities to help others. So far I made some bean soup with kale and brought some in for a coworker. He liked it. I also invited two friends to my house to learn how to make homemade pizza so they could save some money... It is so easy to make a delicious pizza from a ball of dough you can buy for $1.50 at Safeway. I helped to watch a friend's house while they were out of town. YAWN...... None of these things are exactly earth shattering but the year is quite young.

One thing we have all over our house are these little framed signs of this thing we made up together. I told Spencer a long time ago what I expect of him and that is:
"Today I will: Try my hardest, Work my Hardest and Be My Best Self."

This is all I expect of him. I would love it if Spencer would try hard every day to be the very best version of himself. We have this in a lot of rooms in our house, framed in little Dollar Store frames. There is one by the front door that he can see as he leaves for school every day. On January 10th I turned 48 and my son is 8. Bill and I are older parents, and we did not expect to ever be parents... however here we are.. Spencer was a wonderful surprise and he is a gift in our lives.

So... the year is young.. Spencer and I are just now setting our new year's goals last year some of my goals were to find a job, which I did and get some health insurance for Bill and Spencer, which I did through my job. This year I have other new goals, including trying to save even just a small amount of money from every paycheck.. and to help my family focus on their goals. No matter what, though,  every day my goal is is to try to be the best version of myself I can be. I think it is so important to just accept where you are in life. Very few people have the life they want exactly the way they want it... They spend their days dreaming of how their life should be when they could just accept where they are, try their best to achieve small goals and call it a day. I do not have the perfect body certainly, the perfect house, my dream career, my dream anything... but I never ever give up... or at least I try not to. All that matters to me is that I become the very best version of myself. If I have tried most days to do that I feel that is all I can do.