2013 NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS, SOLUTIONS, INTENTIONS

I wasn't going to do New Year's Resolutions this year. I read an article on not wording your resolutions as "I will" or I will not" as it seems to feel like you are setting up for failure when you do or don't do what them. Instead writing resolutions as "I am." I decided to give this a try.
As I have been re-obsessed with Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass lately I thought maybe I would write my resolutions as a poem. Cheesy? Yes I am. :)
Also I have been reading The Yoga Sutras, so my first resolution "honesty, truth, cleanness, obedience" is a line from that book.
Here's to a loving & fabulous 2013.

Resolutions, Solutions, Intentions

I am honesty, truth, cleanness, obedience.
I am yoga and meditation (as daily as possible).
I am eating to live (not living to eat, and healthy, greens more conscious of what goes in my body).
I am closing (at least) 30 loans a month (with improved quality with each month that passes).
I am a patient, listening, kind, playful mother (bringing love and joy to my boys life. Living by example).
I am living love (giving love to each and every living being).
I am living without judgement (without anger or resentment, living in the present).
I am improving my heart and my health (with cardio at least 3 times a week).
I am with great joy a dog owner (hopefully in the Spring).
I am consuming less and wasting less (only purchasing what is necessity, cutting back on unnecessary  If a "need" pops into my mind I will wait 5 days before deciding to purchase, ridding the impulse purchase).
I am bringing home more than I am spending.
I am traveling to one new place (each year).
I am giving my time (volunteering at least once a month).
I am pursuing my love of photography.
I am (finally and fully) learning Italian.

Peace & Love

MY INSTAGRAM LIFE

Saturday morning video games - My Boys

Too Cool at his brother's baseball game

RePeat's new hat. He is now not only obsessed with Legos, but also Domo.

So I just moved to a new pad the beginning of this month, and this is my morning coffee view. Yea me!

My niece Kati-Bug and her 10,000 floaties. Safety first folks. No drowning children here.

Super Goggle Boy

My neighbors always let out their dog at the same time I go out in the morning for my coffee/smoke. So she has become my morning coffee/smoke buddy.

Too Cool's friend....being a teen and trying to be a morph boy.

My favorite wine. Had a glass tonight actually.

So RePeat's class all planted pumpkin seeds and brought them home the last week of school. When I got this bad boy it was a cup of dirt. Now look at it grow. We are going to plant it at Papa's house and hopefully we will have a home grown pumpkin to bake and/or carve.

LOST AND FOUND

I know....I know....it's been quite awhile. Well....I have been busy. Going through some changes....not THE change....just changes. :) Closing one book of my life and opening another......for some reason it seemed my life was stuck on that last page for waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to long. But I am hoping to get back into blogging more, taking more photos (which I have been neglecting too), and all that jazz. I'm sorry I kind of fell of the blogging earth. Not that a lot of people read this anyway, but I know when I go to blogs I read and they haven't posted for awhile....I'm like..."really." So I'm back and hope to be posting all my creative junk again.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING (tomorrow)!!!!

FREE YOURSELF

YOU ARE HOME

BLOOD IS THICKER THAN MUD

KINDERGARTEN BOUND

Welcome to the next step of your life son. Now Mama's gonna go home and cry her eys out.

My baby is a big boy OFFICIALLY now. My father was right when he said, "the older you get the faster time goes."

WE WERE YOUNG AND RESTLESS

GYPSY HEART

CAST AWAY

All photos from Spell

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