Yet another year has gone by, and a new year has begun. I remember as a child thinking that when the year 2000 arrived, I’d be 51 years old - impossibly old to my childish mind. Now 2000 has come and gone, and 51 seems wishfully young to my mind today.

Ever since our daughter was born on New Year’s Eve 32 years ago, we have never been much for celebrating New Year’s Eve because we’ve been too busy celebrating her birthday. This year is no exception. We are babysitting the grandgirls this weekend, and we remembered we had some leftover fireworks from earlier this year, and so we set those off in the backyard - much to the girls’ delight.

We watched “Mary Poppins” and now the girls are sound asleep - worn out from a full day of church, arts and crafts projects, cleaning the house, putting up Christmas decorations, playing with Jake, making homemade pizza and being together.

I refuse to make any resolutions this year. I tend to stick to them really well for awhile, and then life intrudes and the resolutions fall by the wayside.

In thinking about 2006, I thought I would write about each month of the past year - what I did, what I accomplished, what went on in my life. And, guess what? I can’t think of something specific for each month. Entire months with nothing to set them aside as “special” in my memory. I could go back through my blog and read about the things I did the past year. Since I averaged a couple posts each day of the last year, there should be plenty of material. However, is it significant if I can’t recall it without referring back to my blog?

So that’s my goal for this year. I will do something SIGNIFICANT each month this year - reach some milestone, do some kindness, make a difference, make a friend, make a change. On December 31, 2007, I want to look back on the year and know that I was worth it - that I made the world a better place and that the sacrifices people have made in order for me to have the life I live were not made in vain.

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