Baby, It's Cold Outside.

I wish I was here right now...for lots of obvious reasons, but also because January in Kansas = C-O-L-D.



And January means snow...and snow means scooping the driveway, which is right up there with raking the leaves.  Top 10 homeowner things I'd rather opt out of.  But, somehow I convince myself that scooping snow counts as "working out" and so I look at it as a good change from Jillian Michaels.  Of course, the next day, I feel like I'm 90 years old.  I can barely get out of bed and I walk extremely slow up and down the stairs.  Pathetic...absolutely.  Sad, somewhat hilarious, but it's true. 

I'm usually a good sport and even look forward to winter...in the beginning.  Winter means the holidays, crockpots with soup bubbling all day, snow days, warm fuzzy boots and sweaters and scarves.  But by the end of January, I'm over it.  I'm cold and frozen to the core.  Right now, I'm craving spring weather, sandals, and lots and lots of warm sunshine.  The only thing I'm banking on is Mr. Punxsutawney Phil.  I hope he sees his shadow next week, or doesn't see his shadow...whichever means winter is almost over.

Stay warm friends!!  Meanwhile, I'm dreaming of warm vacation spots in order to keep myself de-thawed...

     

I Will...

In 2011, I will:

*enjoy the little things 
*take a vacation or two
*exercise more and eat healthier
*worry less
*cherish the time spent with friends & family
*try new recipes
*embrace new challenges and opportunities
*complain less
*be more spontaneous
 
As I sat down to write a recap of 2010, all I could come up with was ... I spent the first 6 months planning a wedding and the last 6 months basking in my "Schamberger-ness"... But there were lots of other great chapters in the Schamberger/Geist 2010 book...vacations/honeymooner, celebrations of friends' weddings, anniversaries, and new baby births, closing the door to my single bedroom apartment and transforming Kevin's bachelor pad into our house, hosting our first Thanksgiving, and all of the other challenges and joys we experienced along life's way.

2011...there will be more good chapters in our life book.  I'm sure there will be scary ones, sad ones, and ones that push us to our limit.  But we'll do our best to embrace them and learn with every chapter, we've become stronger, more durable than the last.  I've recently stumbled across this quote in another blog by Mary Oliver.  I happen to love it and think it is fitting for this time of year...  Granted, the first day of twenty eleven didn't feel much different than the last day of twenty ten, but a new year prompts excitement for all of life's endless possibilities... So as Mary Oliver writes, "tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"