The holiday season is here and will be but a fading memory before too long.  We will have feasted, played, and partied with friends and family enough to last us for another year!  Old and new memories will have been treasured and created.  Thoughts of grandma’s sausage stuffing, mom’s chocolate fudge, dad’s standing rib and Aunt Betty’s pumpkin roll will continue to be yearly must haves.  We will promise to diet starting the first of the year, try to like tofu, cook only healthy things, and work to fit into those size 10 jeans. Our commitment to keep in touch with those we love on a regular basis will begin to fall by the way side by the time March madness arrives.  Our strategy developed to strive for better balance between work and home life will once again take a back seat by the time the summer solstice hits the horizon. And despite all our daily minutiae and best intentions we as members of humankind will fall short once again.  The upside is that if life is kind to us, we will have yet another chance in 2010 to do it all once again.  Cheers to the challenges of 2010!