The cool (or not-so-cool) thing about a blog is it helps you be a little more accountable to the  things you said you were going to do. So, on December 31st, I nervously took a look back to what I had resolved to do in 2011….so how did I do?

1. Read through the Bible in a year – I’d give myself 50% on this one. I am on Day 200 out of 365, so the goal was not completed. However, I did start to do my reading plan on my i-phone using NewVersion App – which is super awesome! 
2. Have a quiet time and pray once a day – not as consistent with this as I would have liked, it will remain a goal of mine. 
3. Pray for global missions – a little better with this one, it will remain a goal of mine. 
4. Post 15 blog posts a month – I learned that this is a bit too ambitious for us! However, I was really happy that we posted over 100 times in 2011! 🙂 
5. Run 400 miles in 2011 – with the news of Baby Baareman coming, I decided to change my exercise routine a bit. I actually was on track to do this one, but alas, it was not completed! 
6. Run another Half Marathon – nope 
7. Go to the gym at least 8 times a month –YES! 
8. Find a new way to serve locally – YES! Will write another post about this particular mission opportunity… 
9. Read 6 books and review them on the blog – YES! I did read 6 books – see below, but didn’t review them on the blog. 
10. Cook more homemade meals – YES! Still room for improvement though 
11. Save for a Macbook – YES! Got that with tax refund money and love it! 
12. Play the piano more – big fat NO on this one, oh well…don’t worry, it gets played plenty by Jason. 

2012 Resolutions:

1. Read through the Bible in a year
2. Have a quiet time and pray once a day 
3. Pray for global missions 
4. Exercise 3 times a week 
5. Call my friends (who don’t live near me) more consistently 
6. Cook more homemade meals 
7. Read (or listen to) 12 books

Here are the books I read in 2011: 


2011

1. Something Borrowed
2. Something Blue 
3. Heart of the Matter
4. The Help 
5. The Boleyn Inheritance 
6. Radical 
7. The Birth Order Book  – some 
8. What to Expect While You’re Expecting – some 

1. The Hunger Games – have  
2. The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo
3. The Girl who Played with Fire
4. The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest 
5. In the Garden of Beasts

1. Hudson Taylor Biography – have 
2. Don’t Waste Your Life – have 
3. 12 Spiritual Disciplines – have
4. Cost of Discipleship – have
5. Adopted for Life 
6. The Reason for God – have 
7. Mere Christianity – have 
8. Desiring God

1. Liberty and Tyranny – have (audio) 
2. Inside the Revolution – have 
3. 1776
4. Revolution: A Manifesto
5. Common Sense

1. Entreleadership – have
2. Good to Great – have 
3. First, Break all the Rules – have
4. How to Win Friends and Influence People – have (audio)  
5. Richest Man in Babylon