It's interesting. While January and February are my least favorite months of the year-simply because I love the holidays and it feels like all the good stuff is over- I am still looking forward to starting 2011. I guess it's a little bit like Marilla said in Anne of Green Gables: "Tomorrow" (or this new year) is fresh and new- with no mistakes in it. Yet." I like that thought.
I don't look back on 2010 like I have a ton of mistakes I'd like to forget...perhaps I felt that way about a year like 2008, but instead I feel like 2010 was so good, and I feel set up for this next year to be even better. Things really came together in 2010. I began to feel like myself again after being pregnant and having a newborn. Davis got a great job that he loves. Nikki is happy and in love. Red is thriving. Davis (little) is happy and healthy. And I am blessed to have a job I love, friends I admire, and a hometown that is coveted nationwide. God is good. That is really how I would sum up 2010.
And now, what about 2011? I don't make resolutions, really. But I do make goals for myself, some big, some small, and I try to become more like the version of myself that I will look back upon one day and be proud of, with each year. I'm going to share some here. And like I said, some are BIG, some are trivial, but they're all important to me.
1) Be more disciplined in my faith- go to church 3 sundays a month, find a great devotional and read it, volunteer with either Mission Possible or the high school group at Grace. I miss that.
2) Lose those stupid 15 pounds I am still carrying around. It's been a year for goodness sake. It's time to knock them off and quit taking forever already.
3) Spend a little more time doing my hair. I mean seriously, would it kill me to blow dry it or even brush through it before i jump in the car to head to work?
4) Nag Davis less.
6) Meet interesting people, learn from them and laugh with them.
7) Go to Canada or Europe.
8)Realize that having it all means you understand that THINGS don't really matter.
That's all for now.
Peace out.
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oooo... this is an inspiring list and an inspiring look at 2010-becoming-2011, Eloise!
ReplyDeletei love your re-centering and forward moving look on the new year. your readers have yet to sit down and do the same sort of focusing, mainly because right now they feel so open to all the goodness circling in. maybe it's because our arms are open to what's new, and maybe we're more open because we feel so good and solid based on the happiness that grew in 2010. either way, i like that you've covered your whole self in your goals - from faith and outreach (#1 & #2) to personal care (#3), to productive & optomistic self-checking (#4) to wait... where did #5 go??? anyway, on to building community (#6) then travel (#7) which is always an opportunity for expansion, to finally perspective (#8). really, Eloise, you've made a map for us all. go get 2011, it is yours for the loving, taking and championing!!
xoxo
your devoted readers.