- Deliver a healthy baby. Much of this is out of my control, but I'm planning to eat well as soon as I can and exercise, and generally do my best with my health.
- Increase our retirement savings.
- Finish our big emergency fund.
- Start saving for a house (in cash!).
- Improve my garden - I recently read All New Square Foot Gardening
and I'm getting excited about this.
- Continue to improve my homemaking skills.
- Improve my music skills.
- Improve my art skills. (Both of these I realize I will have less time for once the baby is here.)
- Finish reading through the Bible (continued from last year).
- Finish baby preparations inexpensively, and have fun doing it. (We already have a lot - one advantage of so many pregnancies is lots of time for people to give you stuff - but there's plenty more to do).
Edited to add: We actually wrote up these goals (and a few just for my husband) over the weekend. Each new year we review our big accomplishments for the preceding year and make goals for the next. We try to check in on them quarterly to help us stay on track.
1 comments:
Okay, I'm a dork!
I got your comment on the mistreatment of my changing table and I replied to it before I realized it was one of those "no reply-google" emails. OOPS!
Here's what I said:
Hey Joy! (I don't know if that's actually your name, but you seem like a Joy, so that's what I'm calling you;) )
Please do send a picture of your table when you get it done. I'd love to see how it turns out. This is my 4th baby and only my first time using a real changing table. I used a sideboard (that didn't fit in the kitchen after we moved) for the first 3, but we added a room to make space for baby and the sideboard didn't fit in the new nursery. Thankfully, I had a friend give me her old changing table a while back and I love that I'm getting to use it!
And now the sideboard is in my living room. Go figure!
Anyway, thanks for stopping by and saying hello. And thanks for appreciating and tolerating the sharing of the pics.
I had hoped when I started this blog a few months ago that I'd write all kinds of witty storys and antecdotes, participate in the fun blog parties, and try some new crafty ideas I've found in blog world, however I have YET to even write up somethin' nice about my six year old baby for his birthday!!! But since having our newest baby in November, I'm a walking zombie. So I count myself lucky to have gotten his mini-slide show posted and the pictures of the "new" changing table up.
I am just amazed at how much mush is in my brain these days, slowing me down, jumbling my words, confrusing me (yes, confrusing!), and making me miss-type so that I have to delete and retype 157 times each post/reply!
Thanks again for coming by. I promise to stop by your blog, but I may not get to sit and chat. Maybe I'll just leave my signature so you'll know I was there! Ha! :)
Looking forward to your "redo" pics.
hugs!
Sugar Mommy
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