A New Year

I'm not much of a resolution kind of girl.  I am consistently inconsistant.  I crave change within my routines, I try things and then trail off, this is just who I am.

my morning view, from my bed

That being said, I do love to look at the New Year and wonder what joy and change it will bring.  And I do, along with a great number of people, like to think that I can do some things to make this year a little better than the last.

Heaven forbid we ever give up changing things for the better!!

So rather than some proclamation of amazing feat (I will Love every person I ever see, I will never get angry, I will run a marathon-ha!, or I will never eat a slice of pie in 2012)  I have worked on a simple list.

I intend to print this list out (oh, the never ending trials of my printer!!) and hang it where I'll glance over it from time to time.  A reminder of things I want to do, habits I want to cultivate.

2012 

1. Put the laundry away.  (Piles make me cry)

2.  Speak less, listen more

3.  Everything in it's place, a place for everything 

4. Participate in a monthly photo challenge, continue my own photography studies

5. Eat more grapefruit.  I just love it

6. Participate in regular Nature Studies (they make me smile)

7. Read more

8. anxious= pray*

9. Read to the boys more often (snuggle up!)

10. Look in their eyes.  Whoever.  

11. Hang out with my husband more

12.  Move my body, I feel better for it

13. Destroy household piles.  Demolish.  Black Hole. * 

14.  Talk about Jesus more often
15. Drink more water

Seems pretty reasonable, right?  I think so.  Some of these are more challenging than others (oh, the laundry piles) but I think they're practical and will ALL enrich my life more.  My 38th is a bit of a sobering year, not because I fear growing old, but I fear being old and not growing.  

Here's to a new year.  Here's to a time to reflect and wonder at what this year will be, to intend for it to be good and for myself to be sweeter.  I hope you're all having  a lovely first few days and have hopes for a wonderful 2012!

* more to come on these...