2008 in Review Mindy-style

Things that Have Made Me Laugh or Cry or Something in Between in 2008...

• Watching my youngest son conquer his separation issues and earn a turtle named Sisco in the process
• Realizing that aforementioned turtle is really nothing more than ornamental
• The addiction known as FB
• All the friends I've reconnected with because of said addiction
• Michael Phelps (need I say more?)
• Being at the Tech-UT game (really, need I say more?)
• Redoing my laundry room...it's Tiffany blue and very girly, and every girly-girl needs a lair
• Rediscovering my love of writing
• Having so many people in my life that I truly admire...Mark, Adam, Lisa, Donnie...just to name a few, but I could so go on...
• Hanging Christmas lights on our back porch year round so it feels like a beer garden
• Twilight...the books and the movie (I don't care what the critics say...any chance I get to be 15 again and swoon over a fictional teenage vampire, I relish)
• Having a best friend who I can talk on the phone with anytime, anyday regardless of anything!
• Shea Butter Cashmere lotion from Bath and Body Works
• My friends...I have the most amazing friends. If I didn't already believe in God's mercy and grace, the friends I call my own would prove it
• Hearing my oldest son say I am the best woman he's ever known
• Watching my hubby salivate over his new T.V.
• Realizing God has something new for me to learn everyday, and He always will
• Taking in a certain midnight premiere with an old but dear friend
• Hearing my son play his guitar
• Getting a Dyson (sounds pathetic, but it's true)
• Discovering chiropractic care (this cynic is now a believer)
• Watching my oldest nephew play his Senior Year of football under his coach/father
• Becoming obsessed with Pei Wei's Japanese Teriakyi Bowl with beef...it's really all I need to turn my frown upside down
• Having sisters who are really friends with whom I happen to share DNA
• Finally and most importantly...serving a God who (in the words of Justin Unger) "is still the One who tells me I'm gonna make it and keeps my heart hanging on." He's really all I need...

Happy New Year, and here's to the one to come!