Perspective

Happy Monday, friends! How was your weekend? Mine was busy - errands on Saturday, including *sniff sniff* buying my baby's school supplies for the year. When did he get to be so big?! Spent Sunday on home projects - more to come on that front.

One thing that came to mind over the weekend was that Alex and I haven't been on a date night in a year. A year!! No dinners out by ourselves, no weekend getaways, nothing. Well, we went to Jazz Fest for one day, just the two of us, but that's been the extent of it. That said, I quickly reminded myself that Alex, Sam and I have eaten dinner together as a family for about 360 of the past 365 days. Pretty darn good in my book. No insane work schedules keeping one of us away, no one is sick and can't physically be at the dinner table, etc. We're all present and accounted for and that in and of itself is pretty awesome. I leave you with the following quote that I found on the Patterson Maker tumblr. SO TRUE!! Make it a good one!

Credit: Patterson Maker Tumblr

Birthday Resolution #1

"Breakfast at Tiffany's" picture found at 7thHouseontheLeft.com

We typically set resolutions for ourselves around New Year's Eve, but I want to try birthday resolutions. I turned 33 on Monday and have a few things on my to-do list for the coming year. First up on my list - re-learn Spanish. I grew up around the language and did a pretty good job navigating through Spain a few years ago by speaking the native tongue, but I can definitely use a refresh. The game plan is to dust off the old Rosetta Stone cd's and dedicate at least one hour a week (baby steps!) to them. Wish me luck, er, deseame suerte!

P.S. - The pic is the scene in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" where Holly is knitting and learning Portuguese, in preparation for what she hoped at the time to be a marriage to the "future president of Brazil". Okay, I realize Portuguese is not Spanish, but I love how she totally decked out her apartment with stereotypical Brazilian paraphernalia.  Got to admire her enthusiasm!