...how you want your New Year to be.

My first post of the New Year and it is a week late…


I have an excuse…I was on vacation…well, part of the time anyway.

My thinking has changed over the past two years - I believe that how you spend January 1st is a reflection of how you want your new year to be.

On January 1st, we rang in the New Year with the clanking of our glasses and kisses sitting amongst fellow travelers at an AHHmazing hotel. A few minutes later Mr. Strong and I disappeared for a while…wink…wink. Only to return to the festivities more relaxed. A few hours later, a Hot Stone Massage was my 1st appointment of the day. Then all (except 1) of the females in my family (Mom, sister, daughters and nieces) got pedicures. We had a great time laughing (with a little drama). We sat down for not one, but two, delicious meals with just the right amount of drinks – my treat. A little shopping and a little work followed up by a lot of walking were included.

Memories were made that will last a lifetime.

So, I think I have set the stage correctly for all the things I will have in the New Year: Travel, Family, Giving, Exercise, Relaxation (in multiple ways), Joy, Work, Great Food and Memorable Experiences.

(Oh, and I guess I should include writing, because the whole time my masseuse was working on the front side of my body, I was writing this blog in my head! Oh yeah – pitiful I know – but when I turned over I began to relax more.)

I haven’t made any specific New Year’s resolutions for myself, but I have made one for my blog.

I resolve to add in more “life” pictures each month – sort of “my life in pictures” each month of the year to coincide with my January 1st list above.

And yes! I will add some of me too! Because I totally have that skinny booth and plastic surgery phone app., so I will look freaking hot and amazing!