Holiday Wrap Up

ahhh... if you know me then you know about my tumultuous relationship with two certain people in my life.  This holiday season did not disappoint.  Some highlights:

• when I was in the garage, one said person told my 3 year old that I was gone and not coming back.  That's a great example of some FINE parenting!
• the other said person got entirely pissed off when I asked said person to grill up some turkey burgers for the 3 kids in attendance for xmas eve dinner.  "It was not planned" he said.  This is whilst I have spent the WHOLE day cooking up a special xmas eve dinner.  The rest of the evening was completely clouded by his bad mood and attitude.  My friend and I were very uncomfortable the rest of the evening.  Thanks for a GREAT xmas eve!
• one said person, who happened to get an ipad for xmas (I gave it early b/c I was so excited to give it) ignored the kids from the moment said ipad was opened.  Nice.
• other said person fed their dog bites of everything from their plate, but lost his mind when my 2 year old gave the dog a cracker.
• same said person cared more about the bowels of said dog more than having fun with children.

Why does ANY of this surprise me?  I'm not, it's just that time after time I have hope that "this time" will be different.  WRONG again!  

This year my goal is to stand up more to the insanity and only worry about my kids and myself.  When will I learn?  Am I able to get away from it without causing world war 3?  

On another note.

I am proud to say that I have wrapped up (technically tomorrow will be the last day) 41 weeks of project life (I started late, but once I started I kept going) and plan to start a fresh year of PL with 2013. It's a really great and EASY way to document your life and hardly takes any time at all, but the results are so cool.  If you want to know more, just let me know.

On yet another note...

My "one little word" for 2013 is going to be FRESH.  Unless I think of a better one in2 days.

• FRESH start
• FRESH new attitude
• eat more FRESH and natural vs. processed foods
• FRESH beginning to a new chapter in my life.
• FRESH.

What's YOUR "one little word?"