26 Life Time Goals

1] Practice yoga regularly.
2] Be completely corn-free.
3] Teach Sawyer how to read.
4] Adopt another dog and a kitty.
5] Take a spanish class.
6] Visit New York City.
7] Visit Europe.
8] Road trip up the West Coast.
9]Visit New Orleans.
10] Let go of guilt and fear, reverse negativity, stop the cycle.
11] Be an educated voter.
12] Be heavily tattooed.
13] Be a mostly stay at home mom.
14] Keep a blog.
15] Make each kid a scrapbook.
16] Pay off our debts.
17] Be a soccer mom.
18] Have a yearly girl's weekend getaway with my friends.
19] Spend Christmas in El Paso.
20] Volunteer my time for my kids' school.
21] Adopt a family for Christmas.
22] Let go of being self-conscious.
23] Go on a honeymoon.
24] Find a way to re-pay my sister.
25] Stay close with my best friends and make new ones too.
26] Plant a garden in our own yard <3

Fantastically Falling < 3

Our first chilly week since spring and I am more than welcoming that brisk feeling of fall. Especially when we just stocked up on firewood and my husband is outside chopping it all up for us. I have so many things on my plate right now, I just want to blog it all out so I can see everything in black and white instead of floating around in the space between my ears!

FINALLY BACK TO MY NORMAL SIZE, small!!! I really had forgotten that I am actually a small person so it feels super good to be wearing outfits I haven't been able to squeeze back into until now...  If I can do it, anyone can! Sure, it took me 9 months, but that's how long it took to put it on so it makes sense.

My hubby and I went on our first date since the baby last night! SHAME ON US FOR NOT DOING IT SOONER!  It was so fun and freeing! The air outside was so chilly but it was nice to warm up in a beautiful, new to us restaurant. It made me feel so young and pretty, to be able to get all dressed up just for William <3

25 years down

Each time I tell myself I am 25, it blows my mind. It feels like my whole life before starting my family is one long saga of a chapter that has now closed. There is still so much to look forward to that I am more than happy to call myself 25 and say goodbye to childhood and welcome adulthood. Yep! It took me till I was 25 to feel like an adult! Those first 24 years I learned so much and I really had to take the long way around to find out what it was I wanted from life. It really didn't come easy to me! My late teens and early 20's, I was so uninspired. I knew there was passion buried deep, somewhere inside me, but no clue how to bring it to the surface.

I am STILL discovering who I am! And realizing it's up to me to be the person I want to be. Each day, it's easier and easier to see that person in me, I just have to keep searching. Its hard to admit I have a problem with being hard on myself and treating myself badly, so I am changing it. I DO love me, I AM super cute, I DO deserve to be happy and treat myself good.

So here's hoping I continue to love and nurture myself, and really work on being the best ME I can ;]

Goodbye, Lil Yenny, you'll always be a part of my past but now I am Mama Yenny, and God, it feels great.