Wow, 2013 and it's January 1st. That means a beginning! As with all beginnings there must be a starting point, a jumping off, a figurativ diving board of sorts. This blog, starting today is mine. Yes, I have done blogs before and I actually enjoy them and each have their personal significance for me. I am NOT a resolution kind of girl. I have never been. For the almost 46 years I have been in this world, since I might have been able to understand the concept of a personal "resolution"...I don't think I have truly been able to keep one. That I would call "honesty". That being said there is one thing I have decided that I'd like to set aside for the first part of my NEW YEAR...and that is Facebook. Facebook has found a place in my life that takes up far too much space. I love having this huge although in someways "imaginary" circle of people whom I feel like I have a relationship with. I can support them, they can support me...we can swap recipes, I can hear every last detail of their day and they can do the same of mine. But...BUT....it's too much. I have become absent in my family...I have become absent in my friendships. I walk with my cellphone in my hand just in case someone "updates" or comments on a post I made. At night when my sweetheart and I go to sleep...often I lay on my side...and check status updates on my newsfeed. This all sounds like a foreign language that in todays age, is NOT so foreign. It is what so many of us do. There is so much in my life that needs more of my attention and so I have not resolved but rather "chosen" to put my energy elsewhere for at least a month. I don't know what this blog will evolve in to...but my life is a simple one and my motto that I am "just a girl" is one that I hold dear to through and through. That which is basic, and pure and homespun is what I love most of all. I want to return to those things and the little moments that I find joy in. So with all of this said...I welcome 2013 and with it all the blessings, and surprises and roller coasters it brings.