What's Your New Year's Resolution?
With Christmas upon us that means the New Year is just around the corner. In the next week I do plan to do some reflecting on how blessed I've been this year. This time last year I was living in Germany, separated from my husband with no idea whether I'd be able to find a job in Arizona nor when Tom and I would be reunited. And here it is a year later and Tom and I have bought a house, albeit a 'temp' house; we have completed plans for the house we're going to build; we've selected our contractor and are moving forward; I miraculously got a job - the only civilian PA job in an office entirely of military (those of you who are federal employees in the States know how long some civilians can, and do, stay in jobs); we're getting to spend lots of great quality time with Tom's dad and family, and I got to be there for my Dad's 60th birthday.
I was talking to a girlfriend a couple weeks ago and she told me that she'd decided what her New Year's resolution was going to be. I'm kind of cynical about resolutions. I don't make them and I don't keep them. So, I was fully prepared to think that whatever resolution she had decided upon would be totally unrealistic for someone like me to keep. But, I think she came up with a fun and achievable resolution. She is a lover of cookbooks and owns a ton. She was in a bookstore recently when a new cookbook caught her eye and she bought it. It got her thinking though that she owns a lot of cookbooks that she's never cooked a single recipe out of. So her resolution for 2013 is to cook at least one recipe out of every cookbook she owns. I thought that was such a fun idea. Cooking is something she enjoys and gets joy from. It's also something she can share and do with her husband. I'm thinking I might just take on her challenge as my own cause I've got a closet full of cookbooks too.
Another idea I recently learned about is selecting an empty glass jar at the beginning of the year and anytime something good happens during the year you write it down on a piece of paper (napkin, post-it, envelope, etc.) and put it in the jar. Then at the end of the year you can pull out all the pieces of paper and read through all the good things, the blessings, and the answered prayers that happened during the year. I don't know about you but it can be so easy to forget and lose sight of the good things that have happened. This sounds like such an easy way to capture them and have them collected for reflection and remembrance at the end of the year.
These were just two fun ideas I thought I'd share while I sit up and wait for Santa. Anyone got other fun resolution ideas?
Merry Christmas!
I was talking to a girlfriend a couple weeks ago and she told me that she'd decided what her New Year's resolution was going to be. I'm kind of cynical about resolutions. I don't make them and I don't keep them. So, I was fully prepared to think that whatever resolution she had decided upon would be totally unrealistic for someone like me to keep. But, I think she came up with a fun and achievable resolution. She is a lover of cookbooks and owns a ton. She was in a bookstore recently when a new cookbook caught her eye and she bought it. It got her thinking though that she owns a lot of cookbooks that she's never cooked a single recipe out of. So her resolution for 2013 is to cook at least one recipe out of every cookbook she owns. I thought that was such a fun idea. Cooking is something she enjoys and gets joy from. It's also something she can share and do with her husband. I'm thinking I might just take on her challenge as my own cause I've got a closet full of cookbooks too.
Another idea I recently learned about is selecting an empty glass jar at the beginning of the year and anytime something good happens during the year you write it down on a piece of paper (napkin, post-it, envelope, etc.) and put it in the jar. Then at the end of the year you can pull out all the pieces of paper and read through all the good things, the blessings, and the answered prayers that happened during the year. I don't know about you but it can be so easy to forget and lose sight of the good things that have happened. This sounds like such an easy way to capture them and have them collected for reflection and remembrance at the end of the year.
These were just two fun ideas I thought I'd share while I sit up and wait for Santa. Anyone got other fun resolution ideas?
Merry Christmas!
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