11 days into...

...the new year.

2017

So I guess it's time to share my "resolutions" with you guys.  

A New Year's resolution is a tradition, most common in the Western Hemisphere but also found in the Eastern Hemisphere, in which a person resolves to change an undesired trait or behavior.

I use the term "resolution" lightly because I don't feel as if I am "changing and undesired trait or behavior" so much as I am choosing to improve upon areas within my life that I feel I'm not giving 110%.

Linking up with two of my favorite bloggers, Shay and Erika.  Be sure to head on over to their little neck of the internet to read about their new goals for the new year.

Let's get started...and in no particular order

~One~

A Healthy Lifestyle 

or more importantly...to be consistent in living a healthy lifestyle.  I can get on board with the 80/20 rule and do well for a couple of months and then BAM...fall right off the wagon.  It always seems harder to pick myself up after the fall and before I know it, it's been 6 weeks without so much as a walk around the block or a salad.

So definitely going to work on consistency!

~Two~

Be More Present

with family and friends.

This popped up in my Facebook feed yesterday and really struck a cord with me.  So often, as hard as it is to admit, this is us.  Now that AB has a tablet, it has become her as well.  We have a cupboard full of board games and yet we choose to be stuck silently to this screen.

For 2017, I want to be more present, more active, more talkative with my family and friends.  I want to look them in the eye and really "hear" them.

~Three~

Monthly Date Night

A couple of years ago Z and I had a standing monthly date.  At the beginning of each month we would choose a day, a night or both and take turns planning our activity for that particular date.  It was so much fun!  It set time aside for the two of us and gave us something to look forward to each month.  I miss that.  At some point during the business that is life, we got away from that.  I was reminded of how much I missed it, how much I enjoyed it and how much we need it during our Anniversary trip a couple of weeks ago.

Z doesn't know it yet but our first date of 2017 will be next Saturday, 1/21.  I don't have plans in place just yet...but I do have the date and that is a start!

~Four~

 Closer to God

Without God, without his son~our Savior; all of this other stuff does not matter.  

I am currently on the hunt for a great devotional to begin my day.  I am old school when it comes to books/reading...I like to hold the book, smell the book, turn the pages so I have got to take a trip into town to Lifeway Christian Bookstore for my purchase. 

~Five~

Blog

There are so many things that I'd like to expand upon within my little space of the web.  But first, I've got to learn how.  Technical, I am NOT.  So learning the "how to" will be a priority.  Secondly, I have got to come up with a plan for making the time to grow my baby.  I have great intentions but that's about as far as it gets at times.

Looking ahead for 2017 I've decided that the following quote sums it up best...

What are some of your New Year's "Resolutions"?

Until Next Time,

Heather