2012: Eat, Pray, Love. (Better.)

Eat: I am so thankful for my health.  I am aware that I do not deserve to be as thin or as healthy as I am based on my current diet.  I need to eat better--you know, as if I love and respect my body.  It would also be the best example for healthy, conscientious eating that my daughters will have.

Pray: I believe in God.  I am thankful for the Bible; I feel re-energized and re-affirmed by reading it, listening to it, or discussing it.  I kind of wish we had a church community that fit us as a family.  We haven't been attending a church regularly, and I don't miss our church...I feel guilty, but I don't feel like going back there either.  Nevertheless, I would like to spend more time in prayer and meditation and reading the Bible because it makes me happy and content.  I become fully aware of my many blessings and overwhelmed with thankfulness.  By feeling happy, content, thankful, and blessed, I will be able to better serve others...and maybe meet people to serve as my formal or informal "church."  I'd also like to provide more of a faith-full example to my kids.

Love: Our new family motto is, "You are kind.  You are smart.  You are important."  I will tell my family members this.  I will make them repeat it to me.  I will use my actions to assure that they believe it!  I will continue to volunteer at Alyssa's school because it makes her feel special and loved.  I will work to be the best wife and mother that I can be, and when I mess up, I will apologize.  I will continue to multiply the collective peace and happiness that comes from being a member of our horse-human-canine herd!  I will try every day to do something to serve others--no matter how small--donating, volunteering, working for the SPCA Equine Program, researching ways to start my own non-profit venture.

And...I can only hope that if I pour myself into all of this eating, praying, and loving that this will lead to the only thing that I (feel that I) lack--fulfilling work for me that allows me to contribute to our family financially. 

Although, they didn't call the book, Eat, Pray, Love, Work, did they?  Maybe that's the secret?  We shall see.  On with the NEW YEAR!