Hello Everyone!
With another year come and gone I figured it was a great time to reflect on the past year. 2016 was the busiest, craziest, most exiciting year I have had in my life yet. It was full of new beginnings for me and I wanted to take some time to thank 2016 for everything it brought me.
Thank you for the beautiful wedding, where I got to marry my very best friend and life partner.
With another year come and gone I figured it was a great time to reflect on the past year. 2016 was the busiest, craziest, most exiciting year I have had in my life yet. It was full of new beginnings for me and I wanted to take some time to thank 2016 for everything it brought me.
Thank you for the beautiful wedding, where I got to marry my very best friend and life partner.
Thank you for my beautiful family. They were so supportive and made our special day go off without a hitch. With them it was more fun and full of so much love and happiness. They weren't there for just our wedding either. They are with me every single day, I know I can count on any of them and they would be there. They are the very best people in the world and I have no idea where I would be without them. What I do know is that my heart and soul would not be complete without any of them.
Thank you for my loving fur babies. They are full of pep and unconditional love and I know I can count on them for a cuddle no matter what is going on.
Thank you for teaching me to love my body, physically and mentally. I think my pregnancy helped me the most with this, knowing I could carry a person and create something so beautiful taught me to love myself. I got to thinking, how can I preach self-love if I don't practice it myself? How can I raise a confident, happy person if I don't feel it myself? I turned my thoughts around, making sure that I was doing my very best to think positive about literally anything. Sure there were days where it was a real struggle to think 100% positive, and yes I failed at that sometimes. But, just the effort I put into it made me feel a lot better. In forcing myself to think this way it has just become the norm. I no longer put myself down, I don't judge as quickly and I am happier. I always thought before that I was a happy person but I have now realised that what I have is enough. Of course I still want things, but I am happy and content with what I already have. Instead of thinking "If I had this I woud be happy." or "If I looked like that I would always be happy." I now think about what I have and list it, this forces me to realise all the things I do have an be grateful for them. "What I have is enough, I have food in my belly, a roof over my head, a loving family, my own home that I can enjoy, etc."
The greatest gift I received in 2016 and what I am most grateful for is the birth of my daughter. She was born on December 2nd @ 2:24am and she is so perfect and beautiful. There is no love like it, I never knew you could love someone so much from the moment you first meet them. Having her has been the very best experience and certainly the most humbling adventure I have ever had.
For 2017 here are the things I am looking forward to and my resolutions.
So here's to 2017 ... Bring it on because this year is going to be amazing!
- I am going to continue practicing self love.
- I am going to start taking better care of my body by exercising and eating far better than I do. (Treat it as a temple, as it should be.)
- I am going to continue meditating, and want to start making it a daily ritual. Not just meditate a few times a week.
- I am going to get my life organised. Starting with my home .. I have crap squirrled away in the most random places. This madness stops here.
- I want to practice yoga, and seriously this time. I have dabbled in yoga many times before but never got into a habit. I want to be able to bend and twist my body into the more difficult yoga positions.
- I am going to save any little penny I can (or nickle since we technically no longer have the penny here lol!) to build our dream home on our lot. I want to be able to start building our home by June of 2018 so let's do this! (This is by far the biggest and most desired thing I want to achieve.)
- Finally I am going to focus more on my blog and my YouTube channel. I love doing it and really need to have a hobby and something that I can do that is just for me. (It also helps give me a quick kick in my rear to follow the items listed above as it would actually give me something to write/film about.)
So here's to 2017 ... Bring it on because this year is going to be amazing!
Sending you love and light!
xo Jenna
xo Jenna