Goals For A New Year

1. Learn the accordion

2. Get my hair long enough for a wavy side ponytail

3. Read more. I have a stack of books borrowed from my dad to get me started and a brand new Kindle Fire.

4. Try a new recipe once a week

5. Detox/cleanse in the beginning of the year

6. Start cross-stitching again

7. Put myself out there more- I'm signing up for two things to jump start this resolution

8. Reacquaint myself with the basics of sewing

What's In My Netflix Instant Queue

1. Winter's Bone

2. The Kennedy's

3. Bleak House

4. Pollock

5. Precious

6. Exit Through the Gift Shop

7. The Safety Of Objects

8. Conversations With Other Women

9. Ken Burns: Civil War

10. Patton

11. The Wonder Years

12. Teen Wolf

13. All The Days Before Tomorrow

14. Crips & Bloods: Made In America

15. Reel Injun

16. Last of the Mohicans

17. Pearl Jam Twenty

18. The West

19. National Geographic: Aryan Brotherhood

This Week

1. Figuring out where to put all of the kids new Christmas toys

2. Visiting with our friends Mark and Kara and his parents

3. Going to Crane to see my grandparents

4. Going to Branson to see my family and go to Silver Dollar City

5. Visiting with my friend Jaimie, hopefully

6. Buying some sort of multi-faceted, multi-basket/drawer toy organization system

7. Going out with friends for New Year's Eve

Christmas Morning Breakfast

1. French toast bread pudding

2. Oranges

3. Scrambled eggs

4. Hot chocolate and chai tea and orange juice

My Unrealistic Christmas List

1. There was a wooden piece of art of a Native American in Sierra Madre, CA at a tiny brunch place that I loved

2. A charcoal colored Audi Q7

3. An accordion

4. A Rimi Yang piece

5. A house

6. Maid service for a year

7. "Surprise! We are moving to Arkansas!" -my husband

8. A sectional that includes a chaise and a recliner

9. An at-home private David Gray concert

10. Razorback football season tickets

11. Disney World trip with my whole family

12. New laptop

13. A springtime trip to Portland/Seattle/Vancouver with Andy

14. A lake house on Table Rock Lake

My Gifts From Conway Christmas

1. Skirts- this one and one almost like it but a different pattern and one long maxi skirt from Anthropologie

2. A wrap top from Anthropologie's sale room that I have loved for a long time

3. A tiffin stacker

4. Leggings from American Apparel in black, mud, and charcoal

5. A charm necklace with a couple letter charms to start me off (an "r" and a "w")

6. A Super Slurpee Shaker that we fell sucker to at a demonstration. It really is novel and fun.

7. This bracelet that I love

8. A bevy of more wonderfulness that would just be entirely too gratuitous to list and should have never been relegated as simply "stocking stuffers." My parents are definitely gift givers.

Who We Received Photo Cards From This Year

1. The McClures

2. The Wrights

3. The Peters

4. The Langs

5. The Eoffs

6. The Sarvies

7. The Ewings

8. The Swanns

9. The Lacinys

10. The Moores

11. The McKinleys

12. The Blazers