Happy New Year!  2012 brought so many good and bad memories but the arrival of Mr. Cooper has left me with the feeling that 2012 was a great year.  It’s amazing though, as I sift through the various social media outlets with everyone else’s opinions on 2012, I’m taken by how different people’s lives were/are.  My friend from college lost his mother this year to cancer, newspaper headlines were awash in tragedy and others lost their jobs and started new ones.

It’s my hope though that some real good came come out of social media.  For starters, I’m hopeful that those who found 2012 to be a painful year can look to their family and friend’s posts to see what a good year can look like.  Likewise, though I’m flying high in 2012 with a new addition to the family, it’s important that I keep my feet on the ground and take a look on the blogs and posts to see just where life can knock you down….and why it’s so important to get back up.

A quick side note to all my employers who share my Facebook account… these beer bottles are all empty cans we shipped in for the picture and that is NOT a beer pong table and I AM 33 years old….