Welcome, twentyeleven... I've been waiting for you!

Okay, so I'm sitting here waiting for our New Years guests to arrive, feeling a little apprehensive for the start of a brand new year. Seems as though 2010 didn't live up to my expectations and I've taken the past few days to reflect and decide what the motto for next year will be. While setting the island tonight, I was thinking about how I should really send out a thank you to Brian's grandma for her generosity and I told myself, "just get past this party, then you can do that" and it occurred to me that this has been my problem all along. I have been living 2010 with the "get through this" attitude. As a result, many many things in my life have gone to the wayside, to be put aside and replaced by other things. I'm very sad to say that my scrapbooking as suffered this year big time. I don't respond to phone messages or emails like I should. And I don't get together with my friends or attend the Zumba classes like I wanted to. We haven't entertained like we like to. Why? Because I'm too busy. I have set different priorities, ones that don't necessarily put my family or my desires first. You might have noticed that this blog doesn't stay updated, and I love to write. It makes me sad....

So... twentyeleven... my two word motto is... "make time". I haven't exactly discovered a way to add time to my day yet, although won't I make a bunch of money when I do? My plan is to no longer just live to get through, I plan to make the things that I want to do important enough to do. I will make time to write thank yous. Make time to get my albums caught up. Make time to get together with my friends. Make time to play games with my family. Make time to keep my house in better working condition. Make time to spend quality time with my hubby. So obviously something will have to give. The most obvious thing to give up would be sleep and I think that will come into play. I also plan to weigh out all the commitments in my life, let a few things go and prioritize the rest. I can promise that scrapbooking will come before bows, at least for a little while. Friends will come before grocery shopping. Correspondance will come before Angry Bird (did anyone else get sucked into this??). Minicircus will come before facebook.

Twentyeleven will not make me sad next year on New Years. I have my sights set high this year, and I'm not going to maintain the coarse I was on last year. Yeah for a new year, new mottos, new goals and a happy me!!