<p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Last year around this time I woke up.  
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">No really I woke up from a very stale way of thinking.<br /><br />There was so much going on and I was filling my days with things I realize now didn't matter.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">I actually woke up one morning thinking I needed a change.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">I needed to shake things up.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">I was tired of my life as it was – the life I was supposed to live.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">I got up and decided to take the road less traveled. Once again.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Yes, I had done that before but this time with three children it would be different.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">I moved.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Not to Malibu.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Cross town. 
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Which can be like moving to Malibu from Kansas.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">All my life the Upper West Side was my stomping ground.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Even the years I was away for school or was stuck in suburbia.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Last December, I became an Upper East Side mom on paper but not in thinking.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Since I couldn't find the perfect apartment (no one moves in December!!!) I decided to rent for the year.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">I received my lease renewal a few weeks ago. And I renewed it for another year.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">So I can spend the next few months looking for the perfect place for us.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">I woke up last year and decided to take my time to enjoy life. 
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">The way I want. The way that brings my children amazing memories.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">It was a great decision for me to make.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Over the last few months, I've been working on a new project. 
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">One that only feels right doing this time in my life.  
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">And soon I'll be able to share it.
</span></p><p><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia">Here's to waking up to your dream. </span><span style="font-family:Wingdings">J</span></span></p>