I would love to have had a chance to reflect much more at the end of the year.  But we were out of town for a full week and then yesterday I was stuck in bed with a bug.  So much for reflecting, peacefully.  I normally don’t do resolutions . . . in fact, in past years I have been just plain against them.  Why can’t I just set goals during the year?  . . . they get broken anyways, right?  What’s the point?

For some reason, I feel differently this year.  I’m ready to challenge myself with a few things.  I haven’t had a chance to fully think through everything that I hope to do, but who says I have to have it all figured out the morning I wake up on the 1st of January?  I know I’d like to shed some weight. . . boring resolution, I know.  I want to have a couple of other personal goals.  And I would like to have a 2012 list of goals for my business.  I just wish there was more time in the day to hash out my thoughts!

And one more thing.  I am going to try to embark on a photography project.  I want to take at least one picture of day of my family.  Doing life.  Ordinary life.

So here, my journey begins.  Breakfast on January 1st.

I can’t promise that I will post the pictures everyday, though I will be taking them everyday.  Some days I might post one. . . somedays more.  Somedays I might write, and others I may not.  But I think it will be a rewarding journey, once I can look back at the end of the year and find all the beauty that I may have otherwise forgotten in the fleeting moments.

So here’s to a new year.  And new projects.  And new goals.

Happy New Year, everyone.