I was Lost but now I am Found!!!! (isn't that a song?)lol

This is one of my favorite pictures from Christmas!!!

I know what you are thinking.....is Vickie ever going to post anything else? I am! I was lost but now I am found! First I want to say that I have really missed blogging. To think I was blogging almost everyday and now it has been almost a month! I love to blog! I don't care if nobody ever reads it but me! I love it! I am really going to try harder!
It has been so long that I don't even know where to start! First and foremost, I want to wish everyone a belated HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!! I really hope that everyone has a wonderfully blessed new year!!!!
January is one of my least favorite months of the year. It is a new beginning I know. New beginnings mean change. I am not good with change. This year I told myself I was going to be better about January. I really had every intention to do better! I didn't even make a list of resolutions. Not even a mental one! That was something different. Something that I haven't done in the past. So okay, that was a start! Well, I don't know what happened but I just didn't have the gusto. I mean I was like in hibernation. Lilli and I had caught school up so we didn't have to start back until January 7. We fell into a pattern! I would get up at 5:30 with John then read, get sleepy, then go back to bed and get up at 9:00. What kind of schedule is that?! I ask anybody. Well, it has taken me forever to get back on the right track. I am there, though and ready to take on life once again! YAY! RAH! YAY! Thank you my wonderful family!!!
I did get caught up on my shopping! Nothing beats online shopping!LOL!!! I have also made lots of challenges for myself!
1. To read a lot!
One book I have read is a book that my Aunt Barb gave me when she did some destashing some time back. POETRY & PATCHWORK!!! by Gyleen X. Fitzgerald & James W. Pryde, Jr.! Gyleen is an award winning quilter! There is a quilt that goes with every haiku!
It is a very unique book! The authors made a challenge to each other to take a word like HOPE and write haiku for it! Well luckily Lilli and I had already studied about haiku! I fell in love with it from the very beginning! Because you don't have to make haiku rhyme I could actually do it! The lines should relate! They should have 17 syllables. 5 7 5! So now I am going to go through the book and write my haiku for every word that they did!!! Haiku is a ton of fun! You might want to take the same challenge! If you do, please share!!!
2. Learn how to quilt!! I have been reading Sharon's blog!
If you haven't ever read it, you should! It is the best one that I read! Well, she is so enthusiastic about life in general that it is contagious! She has so much fun! Thanks Sharon for adding me to your list of blogs! I feel very honored!!! So I have been reading all about quilting, buying way tooo much fabric, and I think I am really ready!!!! My biggest fear is cutting all of that fabric! I am starting with one that actually says good for beginners!!! That would be me!!!
3. To lose weight and get into great shape!!! I know I carry Gayle around, but I need to sweat everyday!!! I once heard someone on TV say, if you eat you have to exercise! I used to be so good at that! 100 push ups a day! Not anymore! Could be my age! I am going to have at it!
4. To get organized and stay that way!!!LOL!!! having doubts about this one already!!!
5. To blog at least 3 times a week!
This is just 5 out of a ton more! I know it is a lot! Like someone once said, life is too short! There is just tooo much I want to do and tooo much I want to learn! I best get to it! Don't ya think?!
I have also been taking tons of pictures! More than can ever fit on this blog, but I am going to share some of my absolute favorites!!!
I have also been doing some swaps on swap-bot! How fun is that?!!! I love it! I learned how to make a Dotee doll! I am now addicted! When I get some more made I will take pictures!
Well, now that I have spilled my guts I am going to give haiku a shot!

COCOON
Quiet in darkness
Hiding like bears in winter
Waiting for happy

Okay! I am sure you can guess why I picked COCOON! I feel like I have been in one for a month!!!!! Wait until you read tomorrows'!!!!!

I hope you have a wonderful evening and a great tomorrow!
Tons of love,
Vickie

PS--I had to change my last line! I had Waiting for happy times. When Lilli proofed it she reminded me that happy was a two syllable word! What would I do without her!!! I think I have it now!!!