Here are my 2017 New Year's Resolutions:
1) Get healthy. Usually I have some sort of plan to eat better, exercise, lose weight, etc. But for the last few months I have been sick and extremely fatigued. So my goal for 2017 is to be healthy. Figure out why I'm so tired and fatigued all the time (and I promise it is NOT from unhealthy diet, laziness, or just getting old. It is not a NORMAL tiredness).
2) Improve my garden. We get a CSA every year, and I can't grow that much variety, so I limit my garden to things I want a lot of. I have some strawberries, and am working on raspberries--although so far we have gotten enough raspberries to stuff into our faces as we walked across the yard and that's about it! I would like to plant a couple apple trees. I am thinking about growing a sunflower clubhouse. And I would like to grow some herb for eating and for health purposes. If I lived in fantasy world I would be the woman living in a cottage out in the woods gleaning plants and making medicines from them. But they usually had a mentor who taught them what to find and how to process it--so, anyone have the knowledge and skill and need an assistant? :)
3) Do a weekly devotional with my husband.
4) "No Yell Wednesday." For some reason on Wednesday my kids are crazy and I am crabby. This translates into waaaaaaaay too much yelling. So on Wednesdays I'm going to be extra mindful of the sounds coming out of my mouth. If needed I will schedule a play date every Wednesday to help me.
5) Start piano lessons for the kids. I want to get them started learning what the notes are and how to read music. When they want "real piano lessons" I will probably get them a teacher, but I want to set the foundation and get them interested. Plus it will help them in the future if they want to play other instruments or sing.
6) I have been selling bread and crafts at the indoor Farmer's Markets here in Osky over this winter, and I plan to do that for the next 3 months. Then my goal is to sell at one big craft fair in the fall. This means I need to keep crafting so I have enough stuff to make it worthwhile!
7) Improve my attitude. I find that when it comes to my close relationships, in the last year I have allowed my words and actions to be dependent on other people way too much. I try hard to say and do good things, but if they people around me don't ever seem to reciprocate, I just write it off as rejection and stop trying. This isn't a one time thing or event that brought me that attitude, it was the wearing away over a long time. But even if I am worn and lonely, I still control my attitude and actions, and I still want to do and say the right thing, even if those around me don't. That is really, really hard and it can be depressing and rejecting and lonely. But I'm going to attempt it anyway. I think I will start by re-reading "The Sacred Marriage" by Gary Thomas.
