Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, my friends.  

It's a new year. Breathe deep.  Soak it in.  There is such promise and hope on the first day of January.

This year, I have only one resolution: love.

My mom had a great idea; she suggested we create some specific goals for 2013 - the plan was to choose as many goals as our years of age.  She made a list and I did, too.  Here are my goals. I made a special chart that I'm going to keep with me all the time.  

I tried to make concrete, truly achievable goals.  Some are super easy to accomplish; some are more ambitious. I can tell you this much....I will accomplish these 30 goals in the next 12 months.  I'm determined.  It's going to be a great year.  And it begins right here, right now.  

30 Goals for 2013

1. Visit a National Park

2. Eat a whole lobster

3. Try a flavored coffee drink

4. Read 20 books

5. Make homemade soup

6. Cook beans in the pressure cooker

7. Go to 3 concerts

8. Write 1 letter per month

9. Watch a subtitled movie

10. Complete an embroidery project

11. Snowshoe

12. Visit Des Moines at least 3 times to visit my brother

13. Make a recipe every month

14. Organize my stamp collection

15. Have a garage sale

16. Downsize my pajama collection by half

17. Sew something wearable

18. Learn a magic trick

19. Complete a rough draft of a book

20. Write a song for someone

21. Learn to dive off of the diving board

22. Make a necklace

23. Bake a cake

24. Go on an 8-mile hike

25. Go to a professional sporting event

26. Go ice skating

27. Go down a waterslide

28. Ride an airplane

29. Touch the ocean

30. Purchase really warm gloves

Good morning - 1/1/13