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“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.”

Resolutions. To me they are a bit silly. Clearly, if I wanted to set a goal and do something I don't need it to be the first of the year nor do I need 365 days to accomplish the goal....
My Resolutions are always simple. I like things simple. It's how I live life..or try. The New Year is just in my mind to get priorities back in order...to figure out who I have become and to reflect on where I am going. Nothing more. Nothing less.

This year I want to-
-live a life of nothing short of being positive. I don't have time for negative and I want to be able to be so good at being positive that negative just never is allowed to harbor in my life.

-be kinder. each and every single day.
something. anything. somehow. practice kindness. I want to learn to be soooo good at doing kind things I never have to think that what I did was out of kindness. I want my kindness to not always be the visible kind.

-expect nothing from anyone. I've learned a lot about this in my life. I want to learn to expect nothing from anyone. When I say this I mean more personal things...things like expect nobody to be there or things like time...I've just found that when I expect nothing...when those people give things like an afternoon of their day to me, It's amazing...because I never expected anything at all. I've found when I never expected anything, I'm truly never "let down" in life either.

-accept a compliment.
this is hard. If somebody tells me I'm pretty or a great mother or something like that... I instantly find the need to want to turn it around or find something wrong in that comment...it never ends. I want to be able to honestly say "Thank you." and take it for the kind gesture it was. This may take all year.

-peace. easy peace.
I'm not exactly a calm person. Uh, by any means. I have a mind that never shuts off. I like to be on the move. I like to be full of ideas. I like to be busy. I've learned though that sometimes this is hard to handle. Infact, people who have this personality stress me to no end..ha, I think that's maybe the funny part about it. Most of my favorite people are the most laid back, quiet, easy going, peaceful people. It's strange. I seek them for those qualities I suppose without even really aware. I want to be one of those people who others find "peace" in.
I want to find that balance to be the girl I am...I like me...ha...I don't exactly want to change that person, I just want to bring the gift of peace to others...somehow.

-last...
things I enjoy that I want to find time for...things like..painting, board games, fishing, window shopping, baking, hgtv watching, walking with friends, reading with my sons,sleeping in, watching the sunset, blowing bubbles, talking with my dad about nothing, phone calls to my grandmother, capturing life with my camera, writing, star gazing, fires in the backyard, being crafty, girl talk, catching fireflies, a good bottle of wine, laying on the couch watching Sunday football, baseball games, live music, cheap shopping, helping the poor, giving my time, making things, cooking Sunday dinners with my family, traveling, I could go on and on...
This year...
I want to just simply do more of what I want and less of what I don't.
Simple and as easy as that...

I'm going to work on a personal project.
Each day we get a chance to write a page in a chapter of our book of life.
For every day this year, I want to do just that. BE it in images, or be it in text...
My goal is to write a book.
Some pages with no text...
and only images
and some days....only thoughts.
This is my goal.
My hope is one day when I look back this chapter will be one I want to pick up and read..
Love,
Moriah

These were a special treat for my son, he scored a goal in a very tough soccer game... so I made him some brownies!
It's such a great recipe from the "Barefoot Contessa", I've just adapted it and made some changes to fit my needs!
here's the recipe!!
In a large sauce pan melt together :
1 pound semi sweet chocolate
6 ounces unsweet chocolate
1 pound butter
I cook this very slowly so that I don't scorch the mixture.

in a bowl combine
2 1/4 cups sugar
2 T good vanilla
6 large eggs
1/4 cup leftover coffee
mix together till the eggs and sugar are mixed but not fluffy.

in a separate bowl, combine
1 cup all purpose flour
1 T baking powder
1 tsp salt

when the chocolate mixture has cooled slighty, add the egg mixture to the chocolate, and mix until blended, then add the flour mixture, mix till blended but don't over mix.
If you want to add extra chocolate chips or nuts use 1/4 cup flour and 6 ounces ( or more ) of chocolate chips ( my family loves lots of chocolate chips in the brownies) add walnuts or pecan or any other kind of nuts you like.. Toss the chocolate chips and nuts into the flour until they are coated with flour, this keeps them from sinking to the bottom of the pan when they bake.
This makes a large batch of brownies, I like to use a 12 x 12 x 2 cake pan so the brownies are a bit thicker, bake for 25 minutes, remove pan from oven and tap it on the counter top to remove the air, then bake again for another 25 minutes!
Let brownies cool for about an hour before you cut them, and they will cut much easier.