We Interrupt this blogging break for a brief announcement

...Man, when did we get old? Note to self: I need a haircut.On the eve of this NEW YEAR...
After many months of escaping the blogging world to allow myself to get caught up with my life...I decided to come back to my sad little neglected blog...where I dump my thoughts for nobody (or everybody) to read...where I feel like something I do doesn't get undone, dirty, or need washing...Where something in my day gets documented somewhere and I know my existence mattered if only for a brief blip in time to a handful of people.

The eve of a New Year is filled with promise: of hopes and dreams and aspirations. I feel excitement for what lies ahead; the unknown. I have faith that God will not give us more than we can handle, yet believe that He will give us exactly what we need.

With that being said... This is the pile of presents under our tree on Christmas morning. Talk about an obscene amount of gifts. Everybody was home...including Jordanne and Dustin (who live a mile away) Ryan and Josh (five miles away), Ryan's girlfriend Shelby even stayed overnight, and Jen and Jake (who still live at home). It was a wonderful Christmas morning spent with family, laughter, and tons of paper shredding being done by the dogs. We made a huge breakfast and lounged around most of the day watching movies and playing video games. Ah...how we love our laid back Christmas holiday.

I hate to use the word RESOLUTION...because it seems so short lived. Instead I will say that the promise of a New Year gives me hope that I can be a better person by the grace of God. I want to be more postitive, more uplifting, encouraging. I want to be kinder to others and kinder to myself. I want to exercise more, complain less. I want to see the good in others and hope others can see the good in me. I want to care more about people than things, to live simply instead of simply living. And on that note...it's time to clean up this mess.

There's no time like the present!

It'll be nice to start off the New Year with a clean house.

Happy New Year!

We'll be seeing a lot more of me around here this year. Ta- ta for now.