What I love about January...

I love lots about January...

This might only be the second year that I can say that...

But last year with a brand new baby at home, I decided that hibernating wasn't so bad!

I mean yes I have the 3-4 lessons per day to get my children to...

During which time I run all necessary errands...

but I cut out all the unnecessary ones...

stay in my warm comfy pajamas WAY too long each day...

turn on the fireplace...

don't answer the phone when I know it's someone for vinyl...

(Should I admit that??  Sorry people but I PROMISE to call you back!) 

Get caught up on all the projects that I can't do when life gets crazy again...

Have children who are not at said lessons ask me if they can shower and get in their pj's at 6 PM...

Do all the night time stuff that takes forever...

Get kids to bed...

Work on stuff like this on my trusty laptop...

 

It's been a very productive month... I've finished 60 pages in the last 4 weeks!!

Which is very exciting for me... but a little scary when I just checked my 2010 file of pictures and saw that it contains 10,564 pictures from ONE year... !!  Which means I'm going to have to step it up if I'm going to ever get fully caught up!!

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January is also a month of new beginnings and a resolve to do better.  Along with the usual resolutions I decided this year that we needed a family theme... I decided on the word "remember".

(It was basically just a family night lesson... but somehow calling it a "theme" makes me feel like a better mom... :) )

I took it from this talk... and created this to print for each of the kids to hang in their lockers and rooms...

The talk was about "Remember" being the most important word in the dictionary...

He said, “If you remember,”  “you won’t forget to pray. You won’t forget to serve or love. You will remember to read the scriptures. You will not forget your family and friends. You will remember to obey the prophet. You’ll keep in your heart the knowledge that Jesus Christ sacrificed his life for us, and you will love him as he loves you. You will remember why you came to this earth. And you will remember you are sons and daughters of God. You can return home to him if you remember to keep his commandments and live your lives the way he has asked.”

I think it will be a perfect family theme for 2011...

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I've loved January... yes it is filled with all of the not so great stuff like freezing temperatures and inversion.  But I'm embracing it... because it seems to be the one month where I don't say, "When life slows down a little I'll get to that".

Yahoo for January...  When I get frusterated with the winter wonderland outside I just go to my "happy place"...  my happy place involves palm trees, cool ocean breezes, cold drinks (lemonade :)) and hammocks...   ahhhhh