13.

13. I will hug you in front of your friends, 

stalk you on dates, (...consider lesson 11...)

and tell you lots of things you can't do. 

You'll be mad, but it's only because

I love you.

12.

12. The person who is

worth it will never

make you choose.

11.

11. You are never 

allowed to date. 

We can reconsider this rule

when you are approaching fifty.

10.

10. A relationship doesn't 

need to fit into a certain

category to mean something.

9.

9. It's not always about what someone does, good or bad.

It's about how they make you feel. 

People will always remember the way you make them feel. 

8.

8. I will always, always, always

be here. 

Always.

Even when no one else is. 

7.

7. Don't ever wonder if you're ''worth it''. 

You are.

Always.

6.

6. Don't ever regret the relationships that broke your heart, 

they made you exactly who you are today

and they probably taught you something important.

5.

5. Always say what you're thinking in that very moment,

because once the chance passes you by,

it's gone forever.

4.

4. You can always come to me if you're in trouble.

Even if what got you in trouble is exactly what I told you not to do.

3.

3. You have to love yourself before you can love anyone else.

2.

Lesson 2: No one can make you feel anything you don't want to.

for my boys.

I've been seeing lots of Mama's (and other Dad's too actually) write little notes to their kids. Like...rules of life, wisdom nuggets, whatever you want to call them.

So. I'm jumping on this bandwagon.

Maybe not once a day. For a year. But just little nuggets of wisdom that I want my boys to know. Things that I think they should learn. Real life. Real emotions. Real things.

I think I'm going to put them into a book. A book where they can look back...I could look back...at all the real life things I taught them, that in between telling them to clean their room's and eat their vegetables, might have gotten lost in the shuffle.

Lesson 1: Never be too proud to ask for help. It's okay to need it. And even better if you can admit it.