One of life's great treasures

Is family. I love coming up to the cabin because I don't have anything else to do but spend time with my family.

I don't have the cares of the house: chores, errands, phone, etc. we are totally up in the mountains just me the hubs and the girls. We have watched movies, put together countless puzzles, eaten lots of good food (and now that we have to carry out our own trash we are being much less wasteful and eating what we make ;)) good for us and good for the environment...

We have been to the cabin store, circle K, and chevron. Oh and let's not forget the most memorable game of "peek" (peep) .... We also went to visit our famous Annie north of us an tasted of her delicious cookies that I gained 5 pounds just looking at (and then I ate them so add another 10)... Many days I planned on running but seriously it's 21 degrees outside and I'm a desert rat so that wasn't/hasn't happened yet, so I must make up for my slothful was when I arrive home tomorrow.

I digress. We have watches a great Christmas movie... Twice... The Christmas orange. We have shed many tears over this sweet little show. We have played with our loot from the cabin store, and are about to embark on a project that will likely fill our time until school starts. We will be busy and we will be tired but it will be worth it because my girls will have fun.

We will be sad to leave tomorrow but it is time to head back into reality ;). I have some really great pics to follow, alas I cannot (or rather have been forbidden) to post one of them but it is by far the best one ;).

Happy dang New Year!!!

I have a few New Years Resolutions (goals for the first week of January ;)) not too many because as aforementioned I will only be keeping them for the first week , but a few nonetheless.

So here goes:
1. Delete FB from my phone, not altogether just merely from the phone. Seems as though I may spend some unnecessary time on it. I know none of you have that problem because I read your blogs an Facebook posts and it seems as though many have perfect lives and I am sorry, my life is not perfect and I am not perfect and reading about everybody's perfect little lives frankly makes me feel depressed so I'm not going to waste any more time (at least for the first week of January) on my phone on FB and hopefully it will remind me or redirect me rather to blog/journal. So please leave comments so I can feel the immediate sense of feedback that I (used to) get from FB ;)

2. Last night for our New Years Eve party with the children we put together a Manila envelope containing 12 ziplock baggies (one for each month) and labeled them each month accordingly. In each Baggie we chose three activities to do that month, like a craft or outing or vacation or something to do as a family. The goal is then to complete at least one of the activities per month until the end of the year. I will try to record these events throughout the year but that's only my goal for the first week of January so hopefully I can keep it up ;)

3. Spend more quality time with my children (hopefully deleting FB from my phone and completing the above goal this will take care of itself), I see all those moms with one girl and lotsa boys and all they do is post about the manis and pedis and shopping they do with their "best friends" so I guess I better start doing more fun things so I can keep up with the joNes's (or just spend better time with my girls)

Those are just to name a few. I can't get too carried away, but I will tack on Run a Marathon (bc that's already on the agenda) ;)

Not Forgotten!

So one time, I had this blog and I used to post on it TONS! You know, like "Follow the Prophet" and keep a journal stuff. Well I have been SERIOUSLY slacking! I have looked over the last few years and I am so disappointed in myself. All those moments that will not be recorded will now be forgotten. All the cute little things that my children say/do, all the NAUGHTY things that MOST of them do.... gone by the wayside.

Blogging is just not what it used to be. In general. And for me. There is only one thing to blame.

FACEBOOK

NO. Its true. With FB, there is such an immediate feedback loop. Not that there isn't with blogging, but you know what I mean.

Well I am making a personal committment to change the way I blog, that only means that I am GOING to blog. Because this isn't about a popularity contest, although I do love to feel popular :), this is about ME. Recording the moments in my children's lives, so that one day I can make a book (I should start doing this yearly, if we are being honest....). So here is to better days on the "BLOG".