Thirty-seven things to do in my thirty-seventh year:

Today is my birthday. Instead of just celebrating with presents and cake, I'm going to treat today like New Year's. What follows is my list of resolutions. Here's to another great year!

1. To have no specific plans on my birthday, but just enjoy the day as it comes.
2. Read the bible cover to cover.
3. Have a great year homeschooling the girls.
4. Adopt a baby (I really have no control over this, but it’s still a desire)
5. Run five 5K’s.
6. Sell this house and find a farmhouse.
7. Raise chickens at my new farmhouse.
8. Finish writing two more novels.
9. Sell the first novel to a publisher/find an agent.
10. Continue to grow in my faith.
11. Fight against the government and their plot to remove my parental rights.
12. Read at least one book a month.
13. Add posts to both my blogs at least once a week.
14. Maintain my current insulin usage.
15. Go to Stratford for the Shakespeare festival.
16. Travel to Notre Dame with my church group for a pilgrimage.
17. Take a bus/train to Chicago and visit a good friend – whom I miss dearly, even though I don’t call as often as I should!
18. Go to “Mexico”.
19. Attend my 20th high school reunion. Yikes!
20.Lead a bible study.
21. Celebrate my 12th Wedding anniversary.
22. Make a three-tiered cake – a fancy one.
23. Finish at least one family scrapbook. I’m several years behind.
24. Rejoice always!
25. Run around Mackinaw Island. (I’m not sure I even spelling that right, but luckily spelling isn’t necessary for running.)
26. Host a girls’ night out at my house.
27. Be content with what God has given me – not to look at His gifts as insufficient or undesirable.
28. Not use a credit card all year. Cash only.
29. Submit six short stories to Children’s magazines.
30. Read the Newberry Medal books from the last 10 years.
31. Convince myself that I don’t like chocolate.
32. Actually print the pictures I take.
33. Give away things I don’t need any more.
34. Give away something I still use, but that someone can use more.
35. Live in such a way that people who just meet me think, “That woman is a Christian!”
36. Begin and end each day in prayer – and probably several times in between.
37. Tithe a true 10%. (I tip 20%, so why should I hold back from God?)