I'm Going to Want to Remember This

My sister-in-law makes these lovely books at the end of each year. They have photo highlights and small blurbs about the fun family events that took place. Over the holidays I enjoyed sitting on her couch flipping through the pages and enjoying the memories. I'm not great with a camera, nor do I look cute enough on a regular basis to be photographed—so I thought I could adapt the idea a bit and create a memory of this year as we are living it through an online journal. The plan is to spend 30 minutes doing blog posts of this year. The goal is to create a collection of memories of what life is like in our family during the year 2012.

I'm excited for this year. We have things we are hopeful for. My husband's construction business has been slow over the last four years, but we have a new business that is gaining some momentum. The kids are at sweet ages and I want to write down the day-to-day details so that when they are grown up they can look back and laugh at their childhood memories. 

At present, I am home a ton—money is low and gas is high. We have about 3 1/2 acres that we live on and we are going to do as much with it as possible.

I have been totally focused lately on how I can make things from scratch. It has been a fun experiment for me. Fortunately, I have my own little crew of critics to let me know how things are going. This year it is a goal of mine to cut costs with groceries simply by making and producing as much as I can. Over the last couple of months there has been many failures and some successes, but it has been fun and I feel like the kids are learning something by watching and playing this game alongside of me.

Right now I am sitting in my new favorite chair hen pecking this post on my ipad. Adam just made a venison pot roast with our new Chrismas present pressure cooker. The kids are restless upstairs and hoping for a snow day tomorrow. I happen to know that there is a delayed start tomorrow, but I haven't told them yet because I love surprises.