Happy New Year!

Tonight I got to spend my new years with these guys!  No better way to spend it!  I have always known you should spend this night with people you want to spend your year with.  It's how I have celebrated this holiday since Tanner was born!

Happy New Year!!!

Everyone has a chapter in their lives they don't read out loud.

Dennis is a big baby!

At The beginning of the year we got a new king size bed. For the most part we really enjoyed it but on occasion, while I am sleeping, I apparently feel around for him in the middle of the night. Used to, in our queen size bed my whole body stay right next to his.... of course he'd be hanging on the side of the bed every morning and complain about that! But I knew where he was. This morning he lodge a new complaint...

Dennis: Hey you need to quit hitting me in the face.

Raven: What do you mean hit you in the face? 

Dennis: You hit me in my face every night! 

Raven: I do not hit you in your face!  Why would I hit you in your face?

Dennis: I don’t know but I need to stop! You’re waking me up and it's pissing me off!

        Oh big whoop!  I'm scared... NOT

Raven: I’m just looking for you because this bed is so big!  Stop being a baby!  Obviously I'm doing this in my sleep!  Why would I hit you in the face on purpose?!?

        He just grunted at me. So I reminded him.

Raven: You should enjoy me hitting you in the face!!  One day I won’t be here to do that.

Dennis;  Oh yeah where are you going to be?

Raven: I’ll be dead!

Dennis:  Oh good!  Then I will finally get a good night sleep!  But... for now... stop it!!!

Don't trust everything you see, even salt can look like sugar.

Midlife has something to say.... are you listening?

''I think midlife is when the universe gently places her hands upon your shoulders, pulls you close, and whispers in your ear:

I’m not screwing around. 

It’s time. 

All of this pretending and performing – these coping mechanisms that you’ve developed to protect yourself from feeling inadequate and getting hurt – has to go.

Your armor is preventing you from growing into your gifts. I understand that you needed these protections when you were small. I understand that you believed your armor could help you secure all of the things you needed to feel worthy of love and belonging, but you’re still searching and you’re more lost than ever.

Time is growing short. There are unexplored adventures ahead of you. You can’t live the rest of your life worried about what other people think. You were born worthy of love and belonging. Courage and daring are coursing through you. You were made to live and love with your whole heart. It’s time to show up and be seen.”