For some reason, the first week of January 2016 was a highly productive one for a certain inhabitant of our gravel road. Had I known on January 1 what I know now, the following New Year’s Resolutions would have been listed and checked off in 7 short days, rendering the remaining 359 guilt and fancy-free.
10. Come to grips with getting older after learning of several former co-workers and present dear friends, who are our age contemporaries, are dealing with age-related health conditions.
9. Cut back the geraniums wintering over in the upstairs bedrooms and water them less so the woody stems stop rotting.
8. Send out Christmas cards as a staunch proponent of the better-late-than-never school of thought.
7. Find a group to hand quilt Mom’s remaining quilting projects, sewn together by my daughter a year ago, and which have been lurking in the corner of the guest bedroom ever since.
6. Launch a redesigned website full speed ahead and damn the torpedoes that make half the archived posts disappear for a few days.
5. Garner a 100 new likes on my Facebook author page thanks to EA/TEF parents who read the first EA/TEF Awareness Month post at DifferentDream.com.
4. Eat a few Kirkland non-dairy chocolate covered almonds every day.
3. Watch as many seasons of Downton Abbey as possible in preparation for watching Season 6.
2. Call a dear friend in Harding County, South Dakota and make plans to visit next August during the 100th Anniversary county fair.
1. Record personal information in your copy of The Caregiver’s Notebook so you can tell people attending caregiver organization workshops to do the same without feeling like a hypocrite.
What New Year’s resolutions would you make in hindsight? Leave a comment.
