Calm After the Storm

First–Happy 2009 to all of you!

The first few days of January always hold moments of calm for me, like I’m in the eye of a hurricane.  I’ve just come down from making/gifting/celebrating the holiday season and all that it entails.  Soon school will start again for all of us (though I get another week past the other three) and that always brings a whirl of activity after a break.  So here I am, sitting in the calm. It’s a good time for me to reflect on what I’d like to work on and experience in the coming year.  In no particular order, here are some things:

• Continue to work toward a decluttered house.  This is particularly poignant in my mind right now after the holiday whirl and the new “things” in our home now.
• Improve my garden/grow more and do so more successfully.  The snow is so deep outside, but I have a Fedco seed catalog calling my name.  I have a date with it sometime this weekend, I hope.
• Keep the wellness of my family and myself in the forefront–through physical and mental activities.
• Keep working on my struggle with guilt/thinking I’m not doing enough as a mother, wife, friend, teacher, environmentalist, feminist, crafter, and whatever other hats I wear in my life.
• Continue to grow connections in my community, both virtual and physical.
• Create more for my Etsy shop that stays in line with my vision for it.
• Knit–finish up some WIPs that have been languishing (L1’s sweater, for instance. . .)
• Figure out what else I can do to simplify my life to lead an even crunchier life.  Continue to seek ways to do so that don’t necessarily cost exorbitant amounts of money.
• Figure out a way to do something special with L1 for our 10th wedding anniversary–it’s this summer!
• Get together with my best female buds to celebrate my 10-year anniversary.
• Meditate more–because I love when I take the time to do it–but don’t do it just to say, “I meditated.”
• Think more before I speak!
• Engage my students, help them see beyond the letter grade and the books and the “money” out there.
• Work on just letting things be, including myself.
• Enjoy my children more!
• Spend more time in the outdoors that I profess to love.
• Spend less procrastination time on the computer.

Phew, that’s enough, right?  What are your goals/resolutions/reminders for 2009?

To kick off 2009, I’ll let you all bask in the glory of the matchy-matchiness of my daughter and I, and our beautiful feet, too!