New Year, New Decade, New Habits

Here we go, friends.  Hold on to your hats.  I've decided this year to actually make AND keep New Year's resolutions.  I figure if I list them here those close to me will shame me into keeping them. 

• participate in a 365 project on flikr wherein I take and post a self portrait everyday for one year.  I'm typically the photographer and avoid being on the other end of a camera like a participant in the witness relocation program.  This will be hard for me - not the taking of the picture but with posting it and coming to terms w/ the results.
• blog regularly.  I admit to being a frustrated writer.  I don't know if I have a novel inside of me but those around me tell me enough that I should write a book so this seems like a logical first step.  Our family blog will morph into more of a daily chronicle of our lives along with pictures, recipes, and projects that we are working on as well as my observations of all of these things.  It's not so much that I feel like I need to be heard but I need an outlet and with a blog folks can choose whether or not to read it.
• COMPLETE PROJECTS!  I am the world's worst at getting an idea for a project and sometimes even procuring the necessary supplies and then never finishing it.  Not this year!  I've started a notebook where I print out projects I find on the web or cut out pages from magazines and file them along w/ supply lists.  After 1 month I will revisit and see if the "fire" is still there or if it can just remain in my mind as a cute idea I saw once.
• open an etsy shop with Zoë.  I am a crafty girl and have raised a crafty tween.  I don't think we will become millionaires but at least we will have the experience and we can do it together.
• start walking daily.  I have kids.  I have dogs.  I have a distinct need to get moving and get some exercise.  I don't think I'll ever become one of those backwards lunge walkers that I mock see on the trails but I can certainly start moving my fluff around.
• start doing something once a week just for me - not for the kids, not for my family, not for David - wholly and selfishly for Sherry.

There you have it.  Check in if you care to.  Much love from our house to yours and best wishes for a prosperous 2010.