Jan. 1, 2009 - The New Year
With Geoff home this past week I’ve had some leisure time to put to type some of my ponderings of late. It’s been tough to find blogging time these days. Much of the last few months was spent rearranging rooms, creating a library/school room, teaching school from a suitcase throughout this transition, attempting to further involve ourselves in the lives of local college students by hosting some outreaches, baking cookies, making and purchasing gifts, attending parties and throwing a few of our own, and planning my schedule for the 2009 sexual integrity programs I’ll facilitate for a local crisis pregnancy center. My most recent project is in making some dramatic changes to our menus due to some alarming cholesterol results among Geoff’s side of the family—Geoff himself is borderline. While we eat “healthy” there are definite ways of bettering our diet such as cutting out most if not all saturated fat and implementing more meatless meals. As Americans we’ve fooled ourselves into thinking we have to plan a meal around a meat entree. In reality we should be incorporating as much plant based protein as possible with the occasional meat “treat”. This is a difficult idea to embrace as I have an aversion to beans but I will do it for the health of my family. Convincing myself isn’t nearly as difficult as it will be to convince the rest of the family.
Normally today I would be completing my list of New Year’s Resolutions. Because it’s made up primarily of the list the year before, I’ve decided not to do one this year. I will not be creating a list of unattainable ideals but instead am making one goal of memorizing scripture. If I fail at this it won’t be because I overwhelmed myself with a list of impossible tasks but rather because I wasn’t a good steward of my time. And hey, if I don’t have “Eating less chocolate” as a resolution for the 10th year in a row it means guiltlessly eating as much chocolate as I want.
Happy New Year!
