- Item 1, get a puppy: Huge Furry Check. As you know, Fergie has been brightening our home since early February.
- Item 2, renovate the master bath and/or kitchen: Kinda Check. After all the back and forth and side distractions, the contracts have been signed, and work begins next month on our new master bathroom. The kitchen will have to wait.
- Item 3, redo living room etc.: Kinda Check. The scrapbooking materials have indeed been moved downstairs, and David has chosen to make it part of his Family Life merit badge for Scouts to (a) clear out the train stuff and make a space for Mary's scrapping downstairs, and then (b) help us paint the living room a new color. He's taken apart one of the now-extraneous train sets; we need to finish with the others and then move onto the painting (once Mary selects a color).
- Item 4, drumming: Big Check. Not only have I my own kit now, but I've had several more opportunities to play, both with my home church but now also with Burke UMC's LifeSign service,the latter of which I never would have anticipated at the start of the year. As 2014 begins, I'm sharing lead drum duties in both places, it would appear….
- Item 5, writing projects: Ummm…. In reality I've begun collecting materials for two projects, one of which is further along than the other, but neither is done this year, and if I'm honest with myself, I'll be lucky to finish by the time I'm 50.
Isn't that always how it seems to go with my goals? Some things done completely, some things under way and moving in the right direction, and some other things I just haven't been able to move the ball on as much as I had hoped. Candidly, I doubt 2014 will be much different: some things I may deeply want to accomplish, I will probably look back in 365 days and say, Well, that didn't work out. That doesn't mean we don't keep trying: which, if anything, is probably the best or even the only lesson I can take from any New Year's resolutions.
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