10. The Elf on the Shelf for rekindling and challenging my creativity under pressure due to extreme procrastination. Nothing like feeling the heat to create something spectacular in the minutes of realizing your child has awoke looking for his Elf and the stomach sinking reminder that you forgot to move him from the night before...In addition to the magic he brought my child, he brought me little magical stress ulcer...thanks Snowman...glad he is now tucked away in a box, not to return for another 11 months.
9. Pretty Wicked Moms, The Housewives of (All Cities) and The Kardashians for giving me something to look forward to watching during my round the clock newborn feedings rather than infomercials and when I've needed a mindless night cap after a long day of work...Thanks for continuing to put that little voice in my head that maybe a nip, tuck and injection isn't that big of a deal...and I definitely need a cook, driver, personal shopper and multiple nannies...just kidding, only because it's not a reality for me unless I win the lottery.
8. Starbucks and the Starbucks gift cards that were given to me as "push" presents from my husband and friends...new baby or not...this working mother always will need Starbucks...every morning and on the craziest of days..sometimes afternoon and evening!
7. Aging and WIGS...age made an uninvited appearance into my life after this pregnancy with the gift of realization...the realization that it is way harder to bounce and tone right back up as soon as I had 3.5 years prior and I am now more forgetful which makes for being a multi tasking working mother that much more challenging. I also realized that age must has made my husband become either delusional or start to have vision loss problems but in my favor...the comment, "I don't know what you are talking about you look just like you did when we met"...ummm really, that was 11 years ago and obviously you were sleeping through the lesson of gravity or you failed it! I now have a new appreciation for eating well, exercise, overall health and WIGS...I started wearing wigs this year after I shaved my head in support of my younger sister and ended up really liking them. I guess I do have something in common with one of the ladies of the RHO-Atlanta...a shout out to another fellow wig'ger Kim Zolciak! Even though my real hair is growing out...the wigs have become a part of my wardrobe but I do have to admit that I love the easy, no nonsense short hair option when I don't feel like wearing a wig. It's so nice as a busy working mother to cut off about 30+ minutes of my getting ready morning routine and walk out the door with perfect hair and for someone to say "Who does your hair, I love it!" I have no shame in mane...I tell them it's a wig and I how much I love them and a time saver they are!
6. Continuing to gracefully walk the fine line between one glass of wine to take the edge off and full blown alcoholism. Cheers to another year!
5. The windshield is one of my favorite companions. I traveled quite a bit this year, primarily for personal reasons and I learned for the first time that I did not need music blaring or to be on my cell chatting to make the drive bearable...the quiet atmosphere gave me the opportunity to pray, meditate, focus, breathe and think without any distractions or interruptions.
4. The unpredictable, unavoidable and uncontrollable circumstances that literally change your life without any warning and force you to put the things in your life that do not matter at that moment on the backburner (the hardest being my business) and focus on what really matters.
3. My girlfriends for rallying around me and not letting me run away...encouraging me, loving me and drinking a glass or bottle of wine with me anytime I needed it...maybe #6 should have been ranked higher on my list after all...Cheers Again!
2. My husband, family and employees for just being there and offering support when and as needed.
1. It's been a year of having to trust those in my life to take care of what I was unable to at the moment, so I could focus on what really mattered in my life which had nothing to do with business. I was forced in my business for the first time to trust, let go and not be able to control and micro manage every little day to day detail. The flexibility of setting my own schedule; no ceiling of success/accomplishments and being able to have it all by terms, has made all the long hours; stress; chaos and craziness all worth it. I would have never been able to be there on the personal things going on in my life this year that were far more important than my business or career, had I have worked for an employer and for that reason alone I have never been more grateful to be a self-employed working mother.
And that's a wrap of my personal working mother's attitude of gratitude in 2013! Wishing you all an abundance of blessings, happiness, health, success and memory making in 2014!
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