looking back.

we're two weeks in to the new year, so i thought it was high time i back-date a post and reflect a little bit on 2014.

2014 was pretty crazy, but i guess that's every year. we rolled into the year in a new house, bought a new car the last day of 2013. hollis turned one. emme turned four. we left the school the kids had been at since the beginning and started a new adventure at a new school. i took a new role at the same company in august. we traveled to louisiana a few times, to colorado once, and jb made some solo excursions to san diego, new york, wichita, and d.c. (maybe more?). we lost one of justin's uncles in a car accident. we fired our financial advisor for being the worst person ever. we had a bizarro scenario with a chair. i started running again (kind of), we ate out too much.

it was a fast year. so fast.

when the year started i wanted for it to be slower. or for us to be slower? it's hard to know how to begin to make that happen in this day and age...but i still want to try again, since i don't really feel successful. i think 2014 was the year i finally started to come out of the postpartum funk that i denied i was in after hollis....and that was positive. but i think i need to capitalize on that a lot more in 2015. my goals/plans for '15 are a separate post, but a lot of them are similar to what i wanted when 2014 began...and i don't feel like i/we achieved everything we wanted to.

it's easy to get complacent, to make excuses. we are busy. the kids are little. we work a lot, our jobs are demanding, the kids need us constantly, the house requires a lot of work and thought, and etc. etc. etc. but somehow we have the same number of hours each week as everyone else. and we found time to sit and watch the entire breaking bad series, to read some trashy YA novels, to nap and ignore chores and leave the house in a state of disarray for days on end. all of that is ok, but i think it's time to stop putting off what we really want (in the long term) in favor of what we want right now.

here's to a fresh start.