In Your Neighborhood: My New Year's Resolutions

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

My New Year's Resolutions

1. Eliminate chaos from the house. (with a household of six that includes a five-year-old that will be tricky)
2. Bring more peace into my life. (see above)
3. Make my pennies scream even louder. (fulltime husband on 1/2 pay coming to a home near me soon)

What are your resolutions?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: My New Years resolutions:
1. Do more creative stuff to feed the soul; ie nature photography and cards made from own photos. Continue learning Iroquois / Mohawk style bead work.

2. Move the body more - long walks and hikes and biking, on a regular basis! (A new bike trail will be opening soon within 1/4 mile of the house so there will be no excuses!

3. Re-learn the folk tunes I've lost by not practicing!

4. Weight loss - HA!!!!; December 30, 2009 at 4:52 PM
Kim Thompson said...: Great post Stephanie!

Here are mine.

Personally: my book.

Emotionally: tightening the bond with family and friends, saying goodbye to those who are going

Physically: conquering vitamin D deficiency, revisiting vegetarianism, run a road race

Spiritually: fight for nature, fresh air

Activism: fight for pediatric mental health care, make sure that people are fed, healthy lungs

Financially: LIVE LOCAL, BUY LOCAL, BE LOCAL; December 30, 2009 at 5:49 PM
Lorraine Hart said...: Each day as it comes...doing my best to walk in Honour, Respect, Humility, and Love.

If I could have my way...spend some more time with my friends...like my preshuss Anonymous! *waves to pal*

Hope it's a good one...and remember what Nelson Mandela said, "Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it." Let's be courageous in our belief of peace in this country and the world.

Peace and Love to all of our readers. Thank you for joining us here this year...and may you all have a happy and healthy New Year. Please don't drink and drive on Thursday night...we need you!; December 30, 2009 at 6:33 PM

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