And no message could have been any clearer: If you want to make a world a better place take a look at yourself and make a change

I've been putting off making this post for nearly five days-- I was just busy, and I never got around to posting pictures from Christmas, and naturally, during that wait time life happened.

It looks like the powers at be will be shutting down the Old Navy at the Gateway on January 26th. We were asked to wait until today to start publicly sharing the news. I love my store, and this news is heartbreaking to many of us associates, and leaders. I essentially have 4 weeks to get my shit together, and decide what I'm going to do, and where I may be going.

As always, I am blown away by the love, kindness, and care GAP, Inc is showing their employees, by helping us get new jobs, and new locations within the company. If anything, the horrid abuse I suffered during my stint with Landis Lifestyle Salon and the tyranny that Richard Surber created with that evil dictator, awful, sub-human, Staci Ditzer, has made me even more grateful for my team with Old Navy.

Tomorrow I will be talking with my store manager about staying on with the company, and maybe relocating to the Sugarhouse location.

In the meantime, I've been readying myself for 2014. This last year has had many blessings, and adventures; I was able to go home to Oregon twice, we visited Seatle for Marc's brother's wedding, I was able to continue on my journey towards a better, healthy life, I traveled to Santa Cruz for Hoopcamp 2013, and saw Monterey for the first time in ten years. However, this year brought on the very first time I've ever been fired from a position-- making it worse, because it was wrongful termination. This is the year of another miscarriage, and more heart-ache, and on December 29th I was told the most constant and steady thing I've had in my life the last couple years (ON at the Gateway) is going away.

In these heartaches, I have decided to be strong in 2014, and kick some ass on the year I turn 30.

And, as far as counting our blessing from 2013-- I think I felt the biggest blessing of all this Christmas season, in my boyfriend's nephew. As I keep struggling with having to leave my house having his weeness at family event's made it all the better.

Axel will be 3 months on January 7th (his uncle Jon's birthday)

It has felt lonely with the DiFrancesco's sans children, and it makes me so happy that Marc's big sister, Kathleen, and brother-in-law, Matthew, have fixed that by starting their happy little family.

Axel and I, December 28, 2013 at family pictures

Other than that, I'm grateful for Kieran, Liam, and Violet in 2013, and their continued roles they'll be playing in my life in 2014. Here's our Christmas in a nutshell:

Kieran, Violet, and Liam Walters on Christmas

Kieran James, age 9, December 25, 2013

Liam Cohen, age 7, December 25, 2013

Violet Quinn, age 4, December 25, 2013

The Walters Clan, December 25th

The kids, mid-orgy-of-greed

Anyways, before I end this blog entry I wanted to mention that due to some unexpected Christmas money, it looks like I might be able to make it to Hoopcamp 2014 this year. I can't wait to talk to Samantha once I re-activate my facebook to talk to her, and actually decide if that's what I want to do with the Christmas money, or if I want to put said money towards Healing Mountain Massage School Tuition.

To be continued...