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On 2012 Resolutions

The first of the year is always an exciting time for me.  Not only is it ... the First of the Year, but it's also the a new birth year for me (my birthday is on New Year's Eve).   Each new year, I jot down some goals, or resolutions, for the upcoming year. 

I have business goals and homeschooling goals, but I also have a few personal goals.  Each of these goals must be: 

1. interesting to me
2. improve me in some way

Like a friend said in an email last week, "I never put 'lose weight' on the list because that's always just a big never-ending continual goal of goals and nightmare. sigh."  I'll also add the excuse that losing weight doesn't increase my learning. I already know how, it's the doing that's so hard.

But, quickly, on to other things....

Here's my list of Things to Be Sure to Do in 2012:

• Set up my new weaving loom - and weave something
• Spin yarn from fiber with my barely-ever-used spinning wheel
• Walk more days than not
• Learn to cook quick, fast, healthy meals without a recipe (like a tv chef!  ...or a hibachi grill guy) Do you have any food blog suggestions, or favorite recipes to help me out?
• Write every morning.  Something.  Somewhere. (and blog here a few times a week!)
• Learn the settings on my camera, so I can take pictures when the world is not perfectly lit.
• Go to the beach every month (because I want the kids to have memories of a year of beach days)

I want to add a few more items, but that's the list so far.  I try to keep it at about 10 items so I'm sure to meet each goal.  And when I accomplish one, like weaving, I often replace it with another. 

Did you make any resolutions, goals, to-do lists this year?  Please share.  You inspire me so.

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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas!

I'm taking a break

to enjoy the Christmas holidays with family.  

Soon, we'll celebrate my New Year's Eve birthday (ack!)

and prepare for 2012.

 

I’ll be back in the New Year! 

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Our family wishes yours a wonderful holiday season.

Our 8-year-old:  "What's the name of this library?  I like it." 

me:  "Barnes & Noble.  I like it, too." 

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Sometimes

This evening, as I lay my weary head against the back of the yellow chair in my room, I listened to the raindrops and the boys playing together.  At moments like this, thankfulness balances out the weariness.  

At moments like these, I lean my head back and say,

"God, I don't know what in Heaven I'm doing,

but I thank you for this mommy job anyway."  

 

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How to Have Healthy Kids (or, How We're Doing It)

When our oldest two were little tykes they were so often ill. Sometime in the year 2000, they became healthy.   I know, it could be that their immune systems became stronger as they got older, but get this:  our younger two, born in 2000 and 2003,  have never had a sickness even worthy of a doctor visit!

So...why are our children so healthy now?

Read what changed in 2000 to help our children become healthy, and please comment with your tips! 

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On Frogging & Trying Again

Cast on, knit, purl, purl, purl, purl, knit ....frog*. 

Sigh. 

Where's the J hook? 

Chain, single, single, double, double, half double, single, bind off....huh, it's another not-what-the-pattern-photo-looks-like. 

Improvise.

Decide it's a little bag, or a hand cuff or...I know! It's a neck sweater!

And that.  Sums up my weekend. 

Did you get a little more than that done over the weekend?  (I hope so)

*frog  (frôg, frg)n.

1. Any of numerous tailless, aquatic, semiaquatic, or terrestrial amphibians of the order Anura and especially of the family Ranidae, characteristically having a smooth moist skin, webbed feet, and long hind legs adapted for leaping. (from this dictionary)

2. To "rip" out one's stitches, as in "rip-it," "rip-it," "rip-it" out (go ahead, say that out loud.  hear the frog noise?).  I have frogged more projects than I've finished this weekend.  (from the dictionary in my head, but frequently said in knitting & crocheting forums).

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