2012 Inspiration: Celebracion!

Happy New Year!

These images from around the Pin are some of my favorites.

My pinspiration for 2012, if you will!

I don't know what season of life you're in this new year...

You might be working in the non-profit sector, or playing your harp in the South, or completing med school applications, or adjusting to life back on the East Coast, or wrapping up that master's degree, or deftly handling an IV bag as a newly minted nurse.

Your hands might be full with little ones. And your days might be spent tying shoe laces, and wiping noses, and waiting in the carpool lane...

Or maybe you finally found him. After all this time. And you're going to marry him and grow old with him.

Or you might still be dating him. And the hope of what's to come just keeps you bursting at the seams!


Or maybe you're still lunching with the ladies. And trust me, it's totally okay, too. Even if you can't quite forget that summer picnic in Idaho when you thought he might be the one...

Don't let comparison steal your joy is what my Mom always says. Sometimes it's just the reminder you need.

When my siblings and I were very young my Mom used to prepare picnics on the driveway during the summertime. Picnics for no special reason...just because. Barefeet. Lemonade. The smell of freshly cut grass in the air. And maybe a good sprint after the ice cream truck. Mom was celebrating the everyday. I love those memories.

Celebrate the everyday. I think that's what 2012 should be about. That, and counting your blessings every day. Ann Voskamp's writing encouraged me in that direction.

Celebrate the everyday. The carpool line, the wedding planning, the schoolwork, the internship, the living.

And let's be honest, after the New Year's festivities, couldn't we all use a little more sparkle?

I don't think you can ever have too much sparkle.


Want to join me for real? Ann Voskamp started a Joy Dare for 2012. Count 1,000 gifts in the next 360ish days.

"It’s habits that can imprison you and it’s habits that can free you and when thanks to God becomes a habit, so joy in God becomes your life." -A. Voskamp

Happy 2012...here's to celebrating, and living...joyfully!

{images via the Pin}