Road full of promise

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.  ~Hal Borland

I openly confess I've been avoiding a "New Year's" discussion.

A New Year.

New opportunities.

New experiences.

New challenges.

Growth.

Ultimately that is what we strive for year after year whether we set new year's resolutions or we don't.

A new concept occurred to me while I was watching tv.

(Or rather while I was desiring to watch tv but my children wanted to read books and lets be honest sometimes I would rather watch a funny and ever so slightly inappropriate show than read Flat Stanley one more time) but in the end as mom's we read the book. Again.

Okay I digress, sorry, off topic, on the slightly inappropriate show that I mostly missed, the family members made new year's resolutions for each other. Instead of setting their own, a family member set one for them. For some reason this intrigues me.

We spend so much time thinking about how we can improve ourselves that sometimes we forget such a simple solution:

Ask the ones who know you best; What can I do to be a better__________?

So I ask this of you......

if you drop in and read this on occasion,

if you know me better than I know myself or

if you barely know me.......

either way I want you to either leave a comment, send me an email, shoot me a private or public message on facebook, any which way you desire,

 tell me what can I do to be a better __________?

*fill in the blank, friend, sister, daughter, writer, co worker, support, wife, mother, person, however you want to fill in the blank. Your choice*

or a challenge to do more______ or perhaps do less _________.

This year is a blank slate.

No promises,

but you either choose to sing a rainbow,

or you don't.

Get some paper. Get some paint.

Let's get this year started.

FYI: I will be impatiently waiting for your responses....smile.
Hey. What are you doing?! Don't think I can't see you going to click that little tiny "x" up in the corner, I so can. I'll be watching you...