Beckee, Julie, & Julia...

So, I just watched Julie and Julia. I liked it. I really liked it. Wes slept through it. If you do not know of this movie, it is really 2 stories in one-one is Julia Child's story of how she became a French chef and eventually got her cookbook published. The other story is about Julie Powers (I think) who is a woman that decided to cook her way through Julia Child's cookbook in a year and write a blog about it. I really liked Julie's character a lot. I related to her, and as I watched, I thought, "hey, I used to blog a lot, daily in fact, but I sort of gave up on it when I got behind and didn't think anyone would read it anymore or care." Well, I know that my wonderful family cares about the blog because it keeps them updated on the kids, but who would really read a blog full of writing vs my current blog of pictures and commentary?! I don't know if anyone will, but I want to write in my blog more than I have been and I want to get better at blogging again.

In that movie, Julie decides on this kind-of crazy goal and gives herself a deadline to do it in hopes she will stick to it. I thought, there is not one thing I am so obsessed with or passionate about that I could focus so fully on it like she did. Then I realized that is not entirely true...I am that passionate and obsessed with my family (which is why you get so many pictures with commentary posts). But, I also have other interests, ones that I could really learn more about. So, I am going to try to learn something new every week about one of my many interests.

A few of the things I want to learn more about:

1-I am Greek, but I rarely cook Greek foods-it would be awesome to cook something Greek, learn some of the Greek language, or learn something new about my Greek ancestors every week.
2-Wes pointed out a few years ago that I am actually more German than Greek. However, I know much less German traditions, food, and ancestry than about my Greek. So, I would like to do something German every week too.
3-I need to learn more about Wes's family history so I can teach my kids that as well. Luckily both sets of his grandparents have given us great resources for me to learn and teach the kids-we will be going over and learning that as well.
4-I need to sing more with the kids-they love it and my singing has been lacking...
5-I will audition for at least one show in 2010.

Lofty goals. I may not achieve them , but it's worth a shot. I will attempt to blog about what I learn and how I progress on these goals as well as posting all the cute stories and pictures of my great family. In fact, I have some great snow pictures to post...but not tonight. Tonight, I sleep! Sweet dreams friends!