New Year’s Resolutions

Here are my resolutions and goals for this year:

Lose 30 pounds
Hike more. The girls don’t like to hike and I don’t want to hike alone (for safety reasons) so while they were younger we didn’t hike much (together, that is. Paul would go with a buddy sometimes) but now that the girls can stay home alone we’re able to go wherever we want, so hoping to do a lot more this year.
Read 17 books. My record for number of books read in a year is 16 so I keep trying to beat it but haven’t yet.
Finish my Bible reading. In 2021 I started the read -the-Bible-in-a-year thing, but petered out around September. I’ve gone a little farther since but still have a few months worth to finish.

That’s really about it other than a bunch of projects around the house but that can be another post for another time.

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