Find Your Happiness

The New Year usually brings resolutions. A promise to do an act for the betterment of ourselves. Exercise more. Eat healthier. Have my finances in order. Less stress. Travel more. Be kinder. I surely have had my own personal share of successful and (mostly) failed resolutions. But this year, instead of a New Year's resolution, I have chosen a motto. A saying to remember. A statement in which I will live by. Count your blessings. It is from one of my son's favorite church songs. He doesn't know all the words but he sings the chorus with such zeal and so much passion. And when I truly paid attention to the words, I realized there is a huge lesson I can take from it.  Having a bad day? Name three blessings in your life. Right now. Complaining about the huge pile of dirty laundry? Be thankful about the blessing that you have clothes to wear. Upset that your daughter "ruined" your photo by reaching for the phone? How about be thankful for the blessi...

I'm not really a resolutions-type of gal but I'm finding myself setting goals for this new year. It will be nice to come back to this post a couple months from now and see how I am doing. I may add some throughout the year, too, since these are just a few I can think of right now. Improve web design/Adobe Photoshop skills Print the pictures I take on a regular basis Be in the pictures more often Read/Study the Bible everyday Run a 5K Prepare mind and body for Baby #2 Re-paint and decorate the new house Go on a date with Hubby at least once a month Leave the house more often with Nathaniel Finish a book or two every month Post more recipes on the blog Finish another Project 366 or Project 52 (haven't decided yet) Buy my dream camera (Canon 5D MKII) Start my photography business Happy New Year!

The year 2010 brought many changes in our lives and I suspect 2011 will do just about the same, if not more. At the Indianapolis International Airport at around six o'clock in the morning Hubby goes back to work on Monday but the little one and I are staying in Indiana for another week Returning a birthday gift that he already received for Christmas from Mommy and Daddy (My digital SLR is acting up so I've been taking pictures with my crappy camera phone. However, I think that even if the quality isn't the greatest, camera phone pictures are sometimes the best photos because they are usually candid and captures the real essence of the moment.)