Happy New Year in 2013 – “Choose Joy”

Since I was in bed by 10:00 last night, I missed all the festivities and ball-dropping and everything else. It’s okay. 2012 was a difficult year for us in many ways (if you’d like to read our adoption blog, I just updated it yesterday HERE).

But in countless other ways we’ve been blessed beyond measure. One of the blessings has been another great year blogging deals for Addicted to Saving. I having come to consider you all my “online family,” and am thankful that you tune in from time to time to see what’s going on here.

I’m sure 2013 will pose its own unique challenges. We will have more changes in the couponing world (like we did in 2012 with Walgreens’ “Balance Rewards” and other savings tools like “Ibotta”). And personally we will have changes too. One thing I know – life is what you make of it. I read somewhere that 90% of life is out of your control, but it’s the 10% you can control that makes all the difference.

A number of years ago hubby and I adopted a phrase that we pull out from time to time when life gets rough – “Choose joy.”  It’s a reminder to us that while we can’t control most of life, we can control our personal responses to difficult circumstances.

So instead of dwelling on the past on and on those things which others to do us, let’s make 2013 a year where we make the conscious decision to take responsibility for our reactions to others.  Life is a choice. In 2013, let’s all Choose Joy.

Happy New Year to you all, and I wish you all the best in 2013!