Out with the old....

2008's resolutions were fun to make. I didn't actually accomplish most of them(I think my sub-categories had sub-categories), but I remember how hopeful and excited I felt as I made them. And we had a great year! By far my most successful endeavor was keeping up with the blog (maybe a little too successful). But I have loved it and feel that I have a much better sense of where I'm coming from. There we bobbles and dips, but it was a great year. I feel just as excited for 2009.....but I'm feeling far less specific about what I want to accomplish. Yes, I still have loads of laundry waiting for me and yes, I'd still love to learn to crochet, but most of all I just want to be happy and enjoy the journey. The rest is going to fall in to place. So there are just a few quotes and scriptures and thoughts on my mind that I want to record here and keep fresh in my mind as I welcome the new year.


My friend Jonelle Hughes(she has a great new online store) had this quote at the bottom of her emails for a long time and I just loved it. I need to make a copy of it to keep by my bedside:


Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. -Ralph Waldo Emerson


And as I let out the nonsense there will only be room for more good:


As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -Proverbs 23:7

Also, I know they were everybodies favorites, but I just can't seem to get enough of Elder Wirthlin's, Elder Perry's and President Monson's conference talks.

I'm sure I won't make it through the week without a list, but this is the direction I'm heading. I love all of you!