After taking an impromptu hiatus for Christmas and New Year, I have returned from the dead.  Okay, maybe I wasn’t actually dead, but after after all the chaos and running around dead seemed like it would  be a very restful option.

I read  comments that some of  you left having issues with features on the Handiland site and I have forwarded them on to the powers that be.  I have nothing to do with that side of things, but rest assured I am certain they will figure out whatever the glitch it is. 

I started out 2010 with the simple desire to make it a happier year.  I am not overly fond of huge life changing resolutions.  It seems as though you are setting yourself up for failure.  After so much change and upheaval last year, I thought that this year I really would like to shift my focus, and that of my family, on behaving in ways that make us happy. 

Now I am not talking about throwing all constraints to the wind and living a hedonistic lifestyle, but rather assessing opportunities or plans on the basis of whether they will increase our overall happiness.  I am trying to live in the present instead of telling myself that “I will be happy when…”  I am trying to weed out true obligations from guilt.  I am letting go of lots of baggage, both literal and metaphorical.

Some people resolve to say no more often because they have been living as people pleasers.  I have discovered that while I need to say no more often also, I also need to say yes.  To be open to opportunities as they come along.  To be spontaneous.  When my knee jerk reaction is to say no, to ask myself what is the worst that can happen?

So tell me, how has 2010 been to you so far?  Have you resolved to make and changes in your life?  And how is it going?