As the new year approaches I am reflecting on 2015 via Instagram and Facebook timelines.

And I am lol’ing at this e-card my sister in-law shared:

And of course I’d like to think this isn’t true.

I’d like to think that all my goals and prayers and al-anon meetings have done some kind of dent.

But really, who cares?

I’d rather laugh right now than cry.

So this year I’m resolving to take myself less seriously.

To stop climbing stairs, stop reaching for the stars and start having a little more fun.

I hope you are ready because I’m going to share my adventures with you.

Even if they are messy and ugly and straight up stupid!

Because none of us are as perfect as we’d like to appear on the internet.

Our lives don’t come wrapped in kraft paper and twine with sprigs of holly.

We can paint everything white and get rid of all our stuff but we can’t get our lives clean.

We were not made to be spotless.

We were made to laugh.

And it’s never too late to grow young.

Here’s to a new year of selfie sticks, sarcastic e-cards and riding the purple dinosaur…