Dear Molly Elizabeth,

Welcome to the world!

You should know that I am so thrilled that not only do I have the most adorable nephew in the world, but I now also have the most adorable niece. I hope you will let me buy you frilly girly things, and that you will be good for your mommy, and play nicely with your brother.

I am so excited to meet you. Happy Birthday, Molly!

Love,

Aunt Caroline

I know we're almost two weeks into the New Year, but I keep thinking of all these things I'd like to do (or do better) so, why not? Here, my Public Declaration of Resolutions for the Year 2008:

• Start going to the gym more often again. I more or less took the month of December off. Which was pretty silly, since I didn't take December off from paying for my gym membership, nor did I take December off from indulging in holiday food and drink. I have only been only twice thus thus far in '08, mostly because I've been very good at coming up with excuses. But no more! I will resume my plan of burning off excess stress with a minimum of three cardio and strength workouts a week.


• Start cooking a better variety of meals and stop eating out so much.
• ....

Editors note, Dec. 2009: Clearly, I did not write "blog more" which is a good thing, because, um, I didn't.