New Year’s Eve comes with tons of Top Ten Lists, ranging from the noteworthy to the nobody cares.  Some include:

• Best Albums
• Biggest News Story
• Worst Dressed
• Most Sensational Internet moment

I figure there must be some insight to making a list of the highlights of the year, so I thought it might do me some good in applying it to my own life.  But ten of anything seemed a bit of an overkill, if not pretentious.

Therefore, I am going to dived the ten into two palatable lists of five.

Feel free to do try this experiment with your own life.  Categories can include, but are not limited to:

• Family
• Romantic Relationships
• Career
• Travel
• Personal Growth
• Health
• Finances
• Goals
• Accomplishments/Major Awards (A Christmas Story, anyone?

So without any further ado (or adieu, since it is farewell to 2015)…

Top Five

• My daughter going to States for her first year in competitive gymnastics
• My husband becoming a U.S. citizen
• My son going to day care/preschool
• My news that a publisher wants to turn my poem into a book
• Getting a really awesome and supportive principal at my school

Bottom Five

• Smashing my tailbone in a bowling alley and needing an ambulance
• Getting sepsis
• Getting Lyme Disease six weeks later
• Discovering a growing sink hole right next to our property
• Realizing that my grandparents’ health is failing

Did I learn anything?  I guess that I am really blessed and even though I did experience a few low patches, life keeps plugging along and I’m really enjoying the ride!

I encourage you to make your Top and Bottom Five list, too.  And as you do, you may want to make today’s 153Promise to put a positive spin on this past year with an optimistic outlook for the year to come.

Happy New Year.

Many Kisses!  -XxXx