A New year...sort of

I never have gotten too excited about New Year's Eve (even in my wild years) or New Year's Day - I guess I have always assumed it is because my birthday is so close to New Year's and that is the REAL start of a new year for me! I have never made resolutions, or anything like that - although I have occasionally made goals...which I don't call resolutions, for obvious reasons! They haven't fared much better than the standard resolutions, unfortunately!
I have more than once decided to read through the bible in a year - and I think once I even made it to February!
I once decided to go to the gym, and that didn't make it till the end of the week, I don't think!
I have often decided to be a better correspondant and send birthday and thank you cards on time - don't even comment if your birthday is after March 10 - I think that is the farthest I got ONE year - many years and a couple of children ago!
So then for this new year (which officially starts for me in only a couple of days) I wanted something new as a goal - and so I decided to focus on what makes me happy about my life. That is what my goal is for this year - to do the things that I love about my life! What things are they? God, Greg, the girls, (the rest are in no particular order) homemade bread, stamping, reading, family, dessert, friends, and things that fall in those broad categories!
I wish I had taken pictures of my bread the other day - but that was the first step! Some nice fresh white bread that I made on the 1st, or second, or something like that, and today we went to the library, and I made this for a yummy supper!!

Yes, yummy lasagne!!! Well, I am assuming it is yummy, I just took it out of the oven! I also threw in a loaf of Italian herb bread in the breadmaker, since we were out all afternoon! MMMM!!!!

I also have printed off chore charts for the kids, my menus for moms menu for this week, and the grocery list and started cleaning out behind the bar downstairs, which has been a project I have put off for too long already! Diligence, diligence!! That is what I am aiming for! I hope in the not too distant future I can post pictures for you of my clean, functional bar area! I haven't decided what kind of bar yet, it may be just a pop and chips bar...but I am also throwing the idea around of a sundae bar...so stay tuned and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!