As 2014 winds down, it's impossible to ignore the chatter about how this was "the worst year ever" or whatever.
Welp.
2014 was a hard year. There was a lot about it that sucked in a lot of ways, and that's putting it mildly. Without getting into too much of the awful details, there were deaths, lies, disappointments, and so much more.
Most of those things never made it into this space.
It's not that I'm here sugar-coating life, it's that I want the totality of this space to be positive. Some day when Alexis and Mila read my words, perhaps together, I want them to see how very loved they are and how much I focused on the good. Even when things are hard, I try to find the funny in it all. Long story short, it's that I think happiness is a choice. I do my damnedest to make that choice every day.
I don't always succeed. But I try.
Which is why I asked a question on Facebook today. It was a simple one: "What's the best thing that happened in your world in 2014?"
The replies. Man. There are some very major victories in there. In some instances, I know more of the story than what is conveyed on Facebook, so I know that thing that is written was the ray of sunlight in an otherwise stormy year. For some, 2014 was the worst year ever, but there was something good that happened.
I hope to always be able to find that something. It's always there.
(My answer to the question has blue eyes and screams at the top of her lungs when she smells food that she wants. She's pretty fantastic.
My other answer involves the Big Kid and how she worked her butt off this summer because she REALLY wanted to learn to do a back handspring. I was there when she landed one for the first time and it was the best thing ever.)