2019 has been a fantastic year. I've become the mother to the two most perfect twins ever created from passion and patience. I've said untimely good-bye's too dear friends with a heavy heart and flooding eyes. My business partner and I moved firms while having a record sales year. My husband has found his professional calling. My parents are healthy, vibrant, and celebrated 50 years of marriage this year. The ones I call true friends are loyal and loving. After a four year hiatus, I started jumping coops again on my beloved Pighorse, which might as well have given me wings. Life's roller coaster gave me a hell of a ride this year with valuable lessons, love, and a keen awareness of time, Precious, precious time.

In 2020, I resolve to strive for the following:

10. Work smarter, not harder. I will get from A to B with more expedited grace and flair.

9. The neurotic, ADD, Dyslexic list-maker will make fewer plans and take more action. To include making more meals over buying them, writing every day, taking 20 mins for me time daily, spend more time outside, and trying to wash my hair more than once a week.

8. RECYCLE MORE, WASTE LESS.

7. Spend more quality time. In a blink, people can be gone, making time, or loss thereof, so overwhelming. The thought of lost time truly takes my breath away.

6. Finish my book(s) that I started as far back as the 9th grade. Publish. Even if just for me.

5. Five golden rings…oh, wait…There is always some sort of diet in my resolutions, but this year Madame O and I are just going to follow WW a little more diligently. I can portion cake and wine, but lobster is a free food. Real food, real habits, real life because no one likes to pass up a cake. CAKE!. I'm 10 lbs away from pre-baby weight and couldn't be more ok with the extra baby fluff for now. Life is short, eat dessert first.

4. Write more handwritten thank you notes. Host more dinner parties create new traditions.

3. I always strive to be the best I can be, and my strive for perfection is, at times, my most significant fault. This year I will forgive myself when I make mistakes. Not an if, a when.

2. Live life without limits nor regret. I may even have to start picking my nose in public since becoming a mother; I have a slight obsession with boogie hunting.

Pick more Daisies — lessons for my children to always find something so simple and yet so beautiful in life to cherish.

Your 2020 be bright, loving, and full of life, friends.