I’ve spent the past couple of days wondering, without being sheepish or apologetic, how does one gracefully start blogging again after a lengthy time away? Particularly when one of the last posts a few months prior promised to show before pics of the kitchen soon. And sure soon could be relative but at the time, when the leaves still hadn’t completely turned, much less fallen, I really DID think it would be that very next day or, at least, weekend. And, since I haven’t been blogging about it, I certainly haven’t made progress on the house either.

A lot happened this year. Good stuff I’m happy about. I finally made it to Europe. Jay started a new company. But I feel, in so many ways, I fell short of much I had planned for 2011. It’s a new year, though, and I decided to stop self-flagellating back in ’08. So, for 2012, I have just one goal:

I’m hoping (just short of vowing) that all of the writing and decorating and creativity and love and goodness and fulfillment I seek comes out of this simple approach.

Side note: More before pictures of the kitchen coming soon.