13 January 2013

The Upcoming Year

I've been dragging my feet with New Year's Resolutions this year. The usual things that I make resolutions for, more exercise, less food, better time management, improving my art skills, I haven't been able to accomplish in years and I'm tired of trying.

I know that getting more exercise would be a good thing for me. And I have many ideas for drawings, but don't ever get around to executing them. But any time I devote to those things is less time to spend with Emma with Mark. Working full-time already takes a lot of time away from them and I'm reluctant to add more time away from them. But, I have decided on four things that I would like to accomplish this year.

1) Make a quiet book for Emma. I went and bought a lot of materials for this already and have started to piece some pages together. This will be a gospel inspired book. Pages will include the Creation, the Tree of Life, the Resurrection and the Restoration.

2) Finish the knitted scarfs. I start knitting scarfs in Glasgow with the hopes of selling them. But then we moved. And the scarfs have been sitting on the needles, just waiting for me to pick them up again. (Do you know anyone who needs a scarf?)

3) Read 50 books. My reading options have been rather scarce over the past year and half. I only read about 25 books last year. I hope to double that this year. And I have a plan to read more bestsellers, and expand into Amish fiction, so that I can better understand my patron's reading interests.

4) Finish the cross stitch I started in Japan. This is a 14" x 14" ballet dancer. I don't know if I'll accomplish this one. I tend to underestimate how long cross stitch projects take.

That's a lot of projects, but they have a definite start, you can see how much progress you're making, and an ending, which is what I need this year. 

And now for all of you who didn't see the pictures on FB, here's Emma at Christmas.

Helping Daddy open his present.


Playing with her cousin inside the ladybug tent.

Discovering a new toy, and eying on of her cousin's.

Its snow! (eewww)