ThirtySomething

I can’t believe a new year is upon us once again.  2011 was a year of changes for us and as usual, full of ups and downs!!  The biggest change this year was our move in May.  We love our new home, our new neighborhood and the kids new school.  <3  Jack and Aeryn are both in scouts (I am Aeryn’s Daisy troop leader) and Aeryn is also in dance.  She LOVES dance and Daisy’s!  Jack is still warming up to scouts, but does really enjoy it.

One of the downs has been with Jack (unfortunately).  I am not sure how much I really want to divulge right now…but we are working on getting some answers for him.  It breaks my heart to see my child struggling as he does and it is so very hard for me to not blame myself.  All I’ve always wanted for my children (as most parents, I am sure) is to be happy and healthy and well adjusted but for Jack, this is not the case.  How can I not blame myself…it’s my job to keep him feeling safe and secure?  I don’t think I want to say much more than that at this point.  I just hope we get the answers we need very soon so we can start to move through this and I pray it is something we can move past eventually.

I guess it is also the time of year for resolutions….or goals as I prefer to call them.  I am full of them this year and I have a deep and intense desire to meet every single goal I have for this year.  I have a photo that pretty much sums it up:

I love magazines…I get so much inspiration from them.  However, these magazines are just to show aspects of what I want to accomplish this year. 

-I want to learn yoga and eating better…not only eating better but cooking better and improving my cooking skills.  I have a whole lot of weight to lose, but I just want to be healthy and feel better in my own skin….weight loss will just be the added benefit to that.  I love what yoga is and what is does for your body, I have been intrigued for a while, but now I want to dive into it.  And eating clean is something I’ve also been reading about for some time now.  I don’t think at this point I can do this 100% of the time, but I want to try to incorporate it in as much as I can.  I love the ideas from the Clean Eating magazine and the Yoga Journal magazine is an awesome resource. 

-Our house is almost 100 years old.  It needs a lot of improvements, but overall we absolutely adore our house.  It is full of so much charm and potential.  We are currently renting, but hope to one day purchase this place and put all our own touches throughout.  But for now, I just want to decorate and make this house our home. I love the inspiration I get from Better Homes and Garden and This Old House magazines on how to decorate.

-Crafting.  I love to work with my hands.  I love creating.  I love texture and color!  I think for my final goals this year, I want to better myself in my crafts.  Knitting, quilting, sewing.  I want to capture my projects on a blog too.  I think it would be fun to delve into the world of crafty blogs.  I also want to improve my photography skills.  I want to learn more crafts too, maybe beading, or spinning or jewelry making or…the list is infinite!  :)  Magazines give me ideas and inspiration to create beautiful things.  I hope I can just get better and better. 

It seems like 2012 is going to be a full year.  It can only get better from here.