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2012 Goals and Aspirations

Sunday, January 22nd, 2012

Holy cow, what is this? I had planned to do a post about the new year and here we are already more than halfway through January. Somebody lit the fuse when I wasn’t looking and here 2012 is already burning down. I don’t really do “resolutions”, but I do have some goals for 2012 that [...]

My Favorite Albums of 2011

Friday, December 30th, 2011

Last year I started rating all of my music in iTunes and I’ve found that is a useful way to find out which were my favorite albums of the year. Sometimes the results surprise me because I guess one star and two star songs really drag an album down. I don’t know if this is [...]

Darkest Night of The Year 2011

Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

Adriene took a new job this year so she did not have very much vacation time. The girls are in preschool so this week I’ve had the whole house to myself during the day. I gotta admit, selfishly, it’s been incredible. I love my family but I don’t get much time to myself anymore to [...]

Transitioning From Thankfulness to Expectation

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

Here is collection of all of the daily thankful posts I made on Facebook. As someone who has expectations too high for myself and too high for others, I often am not very thankful. It was very good to stop and remind myself to be gracious at least once a day. Now, as the month [...]

Notes From October

Thursday, October 27th, 2011

I’ve been trying to come up with a coherent post these last couple of days, but nothing has come together… so here are some random notes from the past month. I love that during this time of year in the mornings when I open my front door Orion is always directly over our house. It [...]