A New Year

I know better than to add blogging regularly to my long list of New Year's resolutions, but I do want to try. I guess that sort of is my resolution...to try.  Try to floss my teeth every night, try to wash my face every night, try to eat better, try to work out more, try to attend church more often, try to give back to my community more, try to be a better wife and mother...just try to be a better, happier person all around.  2012 brought many challenges and sad times, but lots of good times as well.  I definitely hope for more of the good in 2013, but I also want to just try to be in the moment.  I want to enjoy the small things and not try to rush through the day, week, month.

On that note, I tried a 3 day detox this week. Ha!  I figured it would be easy to limit my diet while stuck at work....only we weren't stuck at work!  The ice storm that wasn't kept us at home Monday and Tuesday, and that was the end of that.  We are still eating amazingly healthier food, but the strict detox diet left me shaky and cranky and really hungry.  Our dinner last night: baked salmon, brown rice, steamed broccoli, and wilted spinach.  Delicious!  I'm the grocery buyer and the chef in our house, so the power to do better is in my hands!  Oh, the pressure!  Sullivan and I also made some oatmeal, banana, chocolate chip muffins last night.  They are very good, but need to be warmed to not taste like a glob of cold oatmeal.  They contain no flour, so it really is just a glob of oatmeal held together with some egg!

I haven't downloaded our holiday pictures yet, but I'm going to try to do that this week or weekend.  We ended up going to 6 towns for Christmas celebrations, so we were worn out by New Years Eve.  I don't plain to repeat 6 again.  We are lucky to have so much family within driving distance, but it felt like we were never anywhere long enough to relax and enjoy the season. Lesson learned.

If anyone still reads this blog, I hope you are starting off your new year full of positive energy as well!