"Double rainbow - what does it mean? Good times ahead in 2013!"
(we are really very easy to entertain...very easy).
I know some don't get into the New Years Resolutions, but I can't help myself. After mucking out closets and cleaning cupboards - you know that post-holiday "ughh" you have to banish by mucking mucking mucking? - I feel the need to commemorate the occasion with some sort of positive outlook for at least the next few weeks.
This year's resolutions came quite easy:
*Read 2 classic novels
(I've started Great Expectations because 1) it was free and 2) I heard a reporter interviewing an author who just finished a biography on Dickens and I found the interview fascinating. Dickens had 10 kids and then kicked his wife out of the house...hmmm I may have to pick up the biography next.)
As a family I gave us 3 resolutions (yes - you can do that when you're the mother...you simply say 'this is our resolution' and then everyone nods their heads.)
1. Memorize 2 poems (so we started one last year...we're going to pick up where we left off and count that as one.)
2. Memorize 2 scriptures
3. Pick a random service project from the newspaper. (This one came to me on Sunday while thumbing through the paper - there is a whole section dedicated to "service" projects. The kids voted on "Operation Gratitude" that sends care packages to US Service members deployed in combat. I wanted us to pick the knitting/crocheting blankets for the shelters but nobody - especially the boys - seemed too keen on that one. I could just picture my boys crocheting away...
And with that we set off with high hopes for 2013.
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