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The first week of 2017 is almost over – was it a good one for you? I hope so! I haven’t posted my goals and intentions for the year yet (I plan to do so soon!) but I feel so rejuvenated after a nice long break relaxing with family.  We have snow in the forecast this weekend and I’m excited to work on some new baking projects!

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Here is some link love for your weekend! I hope it’s a good one!

Since we are preparing for snow, this article seemed fitting. With only a few hours of sunlight a day and snow perpetually on the frigid ground, people in the Nordic countries are still happier than people in the US in the winter months. Why is this? On the whole, the US has more daylight hours and warmer temperatures, even in the north. Let’s light some candles and take a note from the Scandinavians on how to be happier in this cold season.

I have seen this ad on tv and on YouTube now, and loved it every time. Though it is easy to focus on the many struggles of 2016, this ad reminds us that love was shown in so many wonderful actions throughout the year. Focus on the search bar itself and how it encapsulates the loving words emulated from mouths, loving gestures given by hands, and love in the eyes of so many people. Love is out there…keep searching.

I have heard this more and more recently, and will likely experience it even more acutely if/when we move for Will’s residency, but making friends as an adult is rough, especially as an introvert. No one explains that to you as a child, or even in college, when you may need to hear it the most. At other times in your life you are surrounded by people your age who have the same interests and are all in the same place. When you enter the post-college world, you may have spurts of that here and there, but it is not nearly as easy to find, or as easy to make time to cultivate those interests, activities and friends. So we end up with this: making new friends as an adult is hard and scary. But we can do it…right?

As I mentioned earlier, I am working on writing out my goals and intentions for the year, however small or large. I have been following along with goal-setting guides and they have been extremely helpful for this type-A girl. If you are still working on coming up with your goals for the year, I highly recommend these guide posts from Cultivate What Matters. There are 5 blog posts (I linked the last one because it contains links to the previous posts) with podcasts, in case you want to listen instead of read about how to set goals and make them happen. One of the aspects I really love is that a large premise of the guides is that there is nothing magical about January 1st. If you made your goals and were ready to go on the first day of the new year, great! If you took the holiday break to relax and are just finalizing, or maybe haven’t even dug into your goals for this year, that’s great too! Let’s do it together!

One of my goals is to read more this year, and I have heard great things from many people about this book, Daring Greatly. Have you read it? Was it good? We’ll see if it makes the reading list!

One book I am currently reading, and loving, is Molly on the Range. Yes, it is a cookbook, but unlike the typical cookbook there are stories from Molly’s life before each section and intertwined in the recipe introductions. It truly is like a life story with recipes to showcase moments throughout her life. And Molly is one of the most interesting people! She is part Asian, part Jewish, went to Juilliard for percussion, spent years in NYC, and now lives on a sugar beet farm in North Dakota with her 5th generation sugar beet farmer husband and her recipes are influenced by all of this. Whattttt? You can’t make this stuff up. I love it.

Happy weekend! Stay safe and warm!

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