An Abundance of Beautiful

Let me start this post by saying, please pardon me for my lack of photos on the blog. Blogger is refusing to let me upload from my computer?!? Finding a fix is on the 'to do' list this weekend.

I meant to post this yesterday but was out of town on business all day. I am guest blogging over at An Abundance of Beautiful written by my amazing friend Bethany. She’s one of those rare people whose humor mirrors mine perfectly and she can reduce me to fits of public giggles that have people turning their heads- everybody needs a friend like that. You can read my interview here.

Happy Friday Dearest Peeps!

Yogi Love

After a lower back injury last year and the issue becoming an unwelcome reoccurrence in my life, I have recently found myself on the hunt for exercises that both protect the spine and build the core slowly and gently. I ran across this video while doing some research and I had to share-  I think it’s lovely.

Carpe Diem

Did you make a New Year’s Resolution this year? For once I didn’t. That’s not to say that I don’t have goals for the year ahead- I do. I just didn’t want to set myself up for failure (yet again). I read somewhere recently that the third Monday of January is the saddest day of the year and that almost a third of resolutions have been broken by the end of the month. They call it Blue Monday- sad indeed.

Resolutions always run through my head this time of year- most times of year if I’m honest. The unending things that I don’t do, but should.

Floss more

exercise more

watch less TV

read more

spend more time in prayer

make more friends

eat better

lose weight

work more

sleep more

 travel more

care more

yell less

clean more

work less

drink less coffee

drink more water

be more spontaneous

BE MORE. DO MORE.

It’s always MORE or LESS. I rarely feel balanced and settled. Do you?

So this year I decided to take baby steps. Yes, I have goals for this year- attainable ones. Maybe more important than that, I have people who know my goals and will hold me accountable to them in this year ahead. January 1^st is just a rolling date on the calendar- symbolic yes, but just a day, equal in time to any other.  So here’s to seizing the day…one day at a time.

Happy 2013.

And a song for 2013. You are welcome.