Happy New Year and Welcome to 2018!  This will be a good year for me and I hope for you as well. My business is moving in the right direction, relationship is good, kids are good and I am turning 45 this year! I really like to focus on the past year instead of focusing on the future and the unknown.  How can I make a plan for the future without knowing about the past?

So here goes my year review of 2017

The Good

I finally have 2 children in elementary school. I made it to the top of the mountain, as I like to call it. No more spending an hour in the store when I can run in for 5 seconds.  Additional bonus to this is that they’ll both be in the same school for 4 years!  Yep, same schedule for 4 years, I should just stop right now and enjoy this.

As I said, since both of my children are in school, I have time to focus on me. Wahoo, well, not that much time but still time. I get a massage or facial 1x a month. I go on date lunches with my husband when he works from home and I can exercise during the day! All good stuff.

My relationship has been worked on for the last 10 years and thankful for the The Gottman Method, lots of communication and clarification on what I need.  I understand my love language and more importantly, my husband understand it as well. I get his and we both try to give as much as we can to each other!

Most importantly, we are healthy. I have crazy healthy kids.  Myself, I try to stay healthy to help my sanity at all times. We try to eat right and work on ourselves when we can.

The Bad

It has also been a challenging year with health of my parents, craziness of trying to do the stay-at-home mom thing while working on my career.

My family is very important to me and when one person is not well, it affects us all. My mom had some health problems this year and my dad had some as well. Always puts all the small stuff in perspective when you are dealing with health problems. I will take healthy family over anything else and do not mind the small stuff anymore. Happy to report that everyone is on the mend and we are looking forward to a healthy 2018.

I struggle with the balance of working and doing the mom stuff. I know that it is not a bad really. I really enjoying the time i spend with my family and I really enjoy the time I spend with my clients. Always a struggle to find the right balance and where I am needed the most.

So, as in all of this craziness of the past year, I really think there was more good than bad. In saying that, I would love to know about your past year and how everything turned out for you.