Happy NEW YEAR!

Today is the first day of 2008. I thought, I'd turn the page and begin a blog that has been in the "process" of creation since September of 2007. Yes, I know...procrastination is still something I still possess today. Despite, the fact that it's been my goal for...I don't know twenty years or more, most likely more (who's counting) to work on.

MEMO to ME: Work on NOT procrastinating -- again this year.

How has your New Year been? Or should I say New Year's Eve?

In our family we celebrated New Year's Eve by playing games, pizza, soda (yes, it's actually a treat with two Type 1 Diabetics). We watched movies...well, the children did...while Aaron began his new addiction with the new XBOX 360. Of course we didn't make it to bed til 4 a.m. Nope, that's not a typo. But if you're family...you'll know this to be normal.

Before embarking on our 'festivities' we sat down as a family and talked and wrote goals down for 2008 to work on. It's funny how everyone else (children and husband including) know what goals you should be working on. My children seemed to spew out wisdom as to the things I need to work on. Go figure. But guess what? I had plenty of suggestions for the kind of goals they should be working on as well. Constructive criticism cuts both ways. I mean...motherly/wifely suggestion.

I don't know what it is about the New Year that always makes me feel repentive. Yes, I mean...exactly that. I not only feel like I can be better every year but something about New Year's Eve...makes me really believe that I can; the trick is to believe that every new day, that I wake up.

Anyways...have you thought of goals? Have you dared to dream? Do you still believe? Anyways...this is it, this is the year...anything and everything is always possible.

Here's a few quotes to inspire us all.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.
--Carl Sandburg

Our ideals resemble the stars, which illuminate the night. No one will ever be able to touch them. But the men who, like the sailors on the ocean, take them for guides, will undoubtedly reach their goal. -- Carl Schurz

*brief pause* There is no pattern with the Carl's.

I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. --Helen Keller

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
--Michaelangelo

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever your goals may be...may you accomplish them through, tooth, nail and blood if need be.
--vagivagi sears

Good Luck and Happy New Year