Keeping the Home by Lori Seaborg

Monday, January 1, 2007

A New Year

Posted in What is Happening in Our House

Happy New Year!

Beginning a new year is exciting to me. Each year, I'm also starting a new year of life, since my birthday is on New Year's Eve, too.

Today, I've spent some time writing down what I want to accomplish this year. My list is not long. I quit making too-long lists years ago. It's just full of a few things I'd like to see us do in school or in the home.

One of the top things on my list is to have the children learn more Scripture and more Biblical knowledge. I'm using the unit studies at Heart of Wisdom for that.

I'm also writing down a TBR (To Be Read) list of books that I want us to read this year. We own so many wonderful classics, but I usually get bogged down by someone's schedule and my failure at said-schedule, so we don't read them at all, since I can't remember where we are supposed to be. Instead of all that, I'm going to just write a long TBR list and start with the one at the top of the list, perhaps reading from two different books (at different levels) per day (one during the lunch hour and one before bedtime). I need things to be simple!

One of my biggest goals for this year is to create a habit of eating healthy. I know how to eat healthy, but I'm not great at putting that knowledge into practice. It's really just a matter of bad habits. I hope to break the bad habits I still have, and teach the children about nutrition in this year's National Body Challenge. Check it out; you may want to join, too. It starts January 13th.

Speaking of that, I need to sign off now so I can print a few things from the Challenge before bedtime.

I hope your New Year's Day was lovely!