So here's my attempt at a new year's resolution.  I am doing my best to resurrect my blog.  With appropriate recognition of reality, my real resolution is to be, well, realistic with my goals.  For example, not saying I'm going to post in my blog every day.  Because who am I kidding?  But I could perhaps post in my blog, say, once a week.  Because life goes by fast and it often leaves little real record of itself if we don't take the time to leave the record.

What's the purpose of the blog?  same as always.  Blah, blah, blah.  The thoughts going through my head.  The edited reality of my life.  The ups and downs of having my hand in too many things at once. regular life.  Something like that. 

So here's to a new year.  Heading out to a party with my bacon-wrapped pigs in blankets.  Thinking maybe I should have some lofty resolutions.  Like avoiding the wal-mart, for example, where the bacon and pigs were purchased just today (it's not January 1 yet!).  Or attempting to only set foot in a grocery 3 times a week instead of 8. Or thinking I'm finally going to start running.  Nope.  My resolutions are pretty simple.  Try to mess up my kids a little less this year than I did in the one before.  Try to eat just a little better than I have been.  Get back to ordering that quarter of a cow.  stop buying meat at Wal-Mart.  Try to move toward making my own laundry detergent.  Little stuff like that.  The big stuff?  Probably not gonna happen.  But one step at a time, one step at a time.  Right?