Since it is 2019 now, and blogging has been long dead, I have no fear of what I post. Nobody reads these anymore. There are no memes and I will almost always exceed 240 characters. This is ancient content. Blogger doesn't even have a viable app! I can't even add pictures anymore! It will all be lost to the ages. So I will continue on just as a way to empty my brain.
I know January is already half over, but I finally figured out what I want to do this year. I don't think of these as resolutions, more like projects in my mental queue. One of my mentors once told me she doesn't make resolutions, she just always tries to be a better person. Always. Not just in January or when the calendar refreshes. So that's the tack I have taken, it takes the pressure off of the new year for me, not having to be thinking of big change just because I get a new calendar, I can choose to be better any time I want.
So here are my goals and projects for 2019:
I know January is already half over, but I finally figured out what I want to do this year. I don't think of these as resolutions, more like projects in my mental queue. One of my mentors once told me she doesn't make resolutions, she just always tries to be a better person. Always. Not just in January or when the calendar refreshes. So that's the tack I have taken, it takes the pressure off of the new year for me, not having to be thinking of big change just because I get a new calendar, I can choose to be better any time I want.
So here are my goals and projects for 2019:
- Redecorate living room
- plant a garden- keep plants/orchard alive
- potty train Becca
- buy more DVD's for my kids
- lose 20 lbs and keep them off by eating real food
- knit a sweater
- read 40 books
- make bread 25 times
- do something about the sandbox - I saw the cat pooping in it today
- replace fence in Blossom Grove
- learn some graphic design
- keep up with the kids
- flute lessons
- karate lessons
- soccer practices
- swimming lessons
- guitar lessons
- homework
- activity days
- preschool
- library books
- play dates/birthday parties
- bike riding lessons
- haircuts
- prayer/scriptures
(While we were in Palm Springs a few weeks ago I thumbed thru one of those free local interest magazines, there was an article about how mom's are exhausted from trying to do it all themselves. Their suggestion was not to do less, just to outsource more. Not sure if this was an oversight, but to me, my first move is to just cut down on what isn't possible.) We clearly have a lot going on, but we will keep it up as long as we can. The kids do a lot on their own, they usually remember things that are important, so it's not all on me.
Maybe I will use the blog to update on this list of grand designs, that would be some motivation, and since I'm the only one here, it will be content the audience likes to see. It would be better with pictures though. Maybe I should figure out how to do that.
