What 2012 has taught me...

2012 has taught me that...

• Happiness is a choice. 
• Gratitude is far more powerful than I ever imagined.
• Not all friendships last forever. Even the ones you really think will. But that's okay. Live in the moment. 
• Money cannot buy happiness, but it can buy sanity. 
• It is possible for my children to be exactly like me and nothing like me all at once. 
• Students remember everything I say, even stuff I don't remember I said. Sometimes, it is the stuff I felt was the most inconsequential that makes the biggest difference in their lives.
• Graduate school is not just more credits. It is exponentially harder than my undergraduate education. 
• Speaking up for what you think is right is all well and good, but sometimes, if you really want to make a difference, you just have to learn when to keep your mouth shut. 
• Solo parenting is really, really, really hard. Single moms have my utmost respect. 
• No one on this earth loves me more than my mother.
• Nothing in my life is more important than my children.