intentions

Happy new year! It's 2016 and I've got a fresh new year ahead of me. You wouldn't know it, but this blog has been around since 2005. I used to regularly post my thoughts, days with my kids and even announced my pregnancy with Elsie who is now 9. I stepped back a bit when the big kids became teenagers (anyone with teens knows that that time could be a roller coaster of emotions, and I personally had a hard time derailing from!) and life just was busier than normal. I also took a break from scrapbooking, where I used to regularly create for two peas in a bucket and numerous other design teams. Just this past year in 2015, I emerged back into the scrapbooking world. I designed for Studio Calico, worked closely with Amy Tangerine on our creative life and taught a class for Big Picture Classes. This year, I have a few things on the horizon that I am really excited about but I can't help but still feel a little void. While I am not going to crawl into bed and cradle that feeling, (at least not today) I am going to write down my intentions! My one little word this year is SAVOR. I want to savor all the time between now and when I write this next post in 2017, looking back on 2016. I want to have savored the good times, the null times and even the hard times. I gave myself a book reading goal last year of 12 books and I passed it. (This year, I'm hoping to double that.) So I thought it would only be fit for me to give myself a blogging goal this year. I have not been able to shut this thing down, even as I pay for it every month, and I have tried to put it into book form but because it's so big, the volumes and uploading have been enormous. As I've got 2 older children with a foot out the door, I know that I need to document and savor. That I will soon forget the little bits of our days and will be scouring this blog for that one time long ago. So here goes, savoring 2016 and documenting along the way. Cheers!