12 Things in 2012

For those of you coming over from my design blog, welcome!  This is where I will be doing my majority of my blogging while I am on design hiatus.  I have decided that I want to focus on 12 things in 2012.  Why 12?  Well it fits well with 2012 and I can focus extensively on 1 thing a month, even though they will be ongoing projects.  Here is my list of twelve:

1. Eat whole, unprocessed food without fillers or preservatives.
2. Do Project 365 or some variant of it (Project 12 or Project 52).
3. Focus on the relationship with  my husband.
4. Spend more one on one time with each of my children.
5. Clear the clutter out of my home and keep it out.
6. Focus on my own health and mental well-being.
7. Create a home and not just a house that reflects who we are as a family.
8. Work on paying off debt so we can live like no one else. 
9. Work on communicating with my entire family, both immediate and extended.
10. Create a family command center for all of our needs and activities.
11. Carve out family time each week, eat dinner, play a game, something to bring us together as a family.
12. Read more and gather more information about subjects and interest me and intrigue me.

As you can see only one has something to do with scrapping but I believe that all of them focus on family.  Which is going to be my one little word for the upcoming year.  Family is something as much as I try, I feel like I ignore or push aside for other things. And this past year has made me realized that I can not continue to allow that to happen.  I really want my girls to have kind of childhood that I did.  We ate around the dinner table every night, we played board games together, and we could sit down and talk or read a book whenever.  In the end, it is those memories, and not material things, that I cherish the most.  So every month, I will focus on one of these twelve things.  I welcome any comments, tips, tricks that my readers might have.  The more the merrier, I say!