starting fresh...

For those of you who read my newsletter every month, ignore this. I have to repeat myself a little. I have always been the New Year's resolution QUEEN! Because I journal, I don't miss the opportunity for a long list of things I want to improve upon myself at the start of every year. But I've learned to just choose a few. I can realistically meet my goals if they aren't too far fetched. So this year I am determined to get things done especially since Jenna will start preschool in the fall and Sam will be in school all day.

Here it goes:

1. Get my family history collage put together. (Framed, labelled photos of Passey's and Dale sides of family as far back as I can go.) I want myself, my husband, and children to be more familiar and reminded of where and who they came from!

2. Make healthy food for my family-Cooking Light Magazine! Cut down on processed snacks, be creative. We are doing pretty good here but I need to make a little more of an effort.

3. Family Prayer-EVERY night, TOGETHER!

4. Organize my closets, drawers, cupboards, one at a time, CONTAINERS! Wish we had the store "The Container Store" I would be in heaven, but there's always IKEA.

5. Be a FUN mom! Get out there and be crazy, involved more, show my kids that I LOVE to have fun.

There, that wasn't too bad.

Here are my quotes for a little reflection...

"Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything."~Mother Teresa

I got this quote from Three Cups of Tea which is an incredible book that everyone should read. Every chapter started with an amazing and useful quote or proverb. This was one of my favorites.

"Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love this quote for the words "blunders, absurdities, old nonsense". I can dwell on stupid, careless things I say or do and I let it eat me up for days. Humor is the only remedy for this.

Have fun with your resolutions, goals, whatever you want to call them. The important thing is trying not always achieving.