For various reasons, today is my own personal New Year’s Day, and I have a bunch of resolutions for this coming year:<\/p>\n
–\u00a0 I’m going to attend my first highschool reunion, which makes me simultaneously cringe and wonder at the possibilities.\u00a0 Maybe I’ll reconnect with some cool people.\u00a0 Maybe.\u00a0 And hopefully there will be good food.<\/p>\n
–\u00a0 I’m going to step outside my comfort zone (I hate that term, but it does describe the feeling well) and get trained in the “Every Child Ready to Read” program from the American Library Association, with the intention of presenting the program to parents in a series of seminars.<\/p>\n
–\u00a0 I want to, and need to, add some new lesson plans to my repertoire for the Storytime for 2’s and 3’s.\u00a0 I already have a list of themes that I want to develop, and I’ve already ordered some cool puppets to supplement those themes.\u00a0 Now to just put in the time to create and develop…<\/p>\n
–\u00a0 I’m looking forward to exploring some additional afterschool programs for the library.\u00a0 I’ve already got a lot of ideas, so the thought is to schedule these programs and see how they run.\u00a0 (And no, I’m not going to preview these ideas here first!\u00a0 But I will let you know how they do…if they’re a success.)<\/p>\n
–\u00a0 I’m looking forward to spending some more time making jewelry.\u00a0 If only the price of silver would cooperate with my plans and drop to a reasonable level.<\/p>\n
–\u00a0 For this year’s book groups, I’m going to insist that the kids of the older groups trust my judgement and let me pick half of the books (they get to pick and vote on the other half).\u00a0 I feel like we haven’t been reading enough new <\/em>fiction lately, and our reading has also been far too fantasy-heavy.\u00a0 Time for some different genres.<\/p>\n –\u00a0 And maybe this year will be the year that we “finish” work on our house.\u00a0 We’re sooooo close, and I really think that we can do it.\u00a0 It would be nice to transition into maintenance mode from renovation mode.\u00a0 (And even nicer to have guests over without feeling like we need to apologize for all of our unfinished projects.)<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Oh, and yeah, I’d like to write a best-selling novel, first in a series, that will enable Jim and me to live in the manner in which we’d like to be accustomed.<\/p>\n Happy New Year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For various reasons, today is my own personal New Year’s Day, and I have a bunch of resolutions for this coming year: –\u00a0 I’m going to attend my first highschool reunion, which makes me simultaneously cringe and wonder at the possibilities.\u00a0 Maybe I’ll reconnect with some cool people.\u00a0 Maybe.\u00a0 And hopefully there will be good … Continue reading A better year<\/span>