Happy New Year!

Happy new year to everyone! Best wishes and such... and good luck on all those resolutions!

I never make resolutions, simply because I tend to break them. This year however, I have made a "to do" list for the year. No specific order or priority, but hopefully all items will be completed!

1) Keep the house in good order. Cleaner than current, and keep up with the dishes and laundry and such.

2) Cook from scratch more. We don't eat out very often, but I can see it potentially becoming a (very expensive) habit. Sub-item here: learn to cook a potato. Mashed does not count.

3) Go for a walk with the little one as often as the weather allows (obviously not in the freezing wintertime!).

4) Finish my knitting projects. Make sure to get all projects off needles this year!

5) Learn to do Orenburg Lace shawls- the proper way, not the cheating way I have been doing them...

6) Find a job I can do from home. I want to be able to stay home and take care of my baby- that's my first priority. However, bills tend to happen and a second income would be great at this point.

7) Travel to at least one place this year. Maybe out to see my sisters, but preferably out to see my grandmas... Pennsylvania and Tennessee. I haven't seen either in years and would love to have the chance to sit and chat with them again!

8) Design a knitting pattern.

9) Learn to create my own sewing patterns. Has anyone ever noticed that the exact thing you want to sew never has a pattern? Or at least, I can never find one.

10) Be the best wife/mother/friend that I can be!