Happy New Year friends! This is going to be a very random sort of all over the place post. I have found myself to be very busy this first week of the New Year. Nothing really in particular, just the normal day-to-day stuff like being a Mom to a very active (almost) three year old whom I love and would not trade for anything in the world.
I am starting to collect ideas for my daughter's upcoming birthday party in March. Also we want to get her in a big girl bed (hopefully) by her birthday. I purchased adorable pink and white polka dot sheets at PB Kids yesterday. The quilt I plan to us has to be ordered through the catalog. I am going to have a simple headboard made and slipcovered. I think I have enough leftover fabric from her crib bedding for a bedskirt. Very exciting! I am always up for a new design project.
I am going to list a few goals I have set for myself for 2012. Hopefully, I will follow through with at least a few of them.
1. Get really serious about loosing some of this baby weight I have been carrying around for the last few years. I need to loose twenty pounds to get back to my pre pregnancy weight. At this point I would be happy to lose five or ten pounds.
2. Exercise more, a lot more! Start walking three times a week.
3. Sign my daughter up for either a ballet or gymnastic class or both. She is home with me everyday. She is not in a Mother's Morning Out program. I think this would be good for her.
4. We plan to homeschool Charlotte and hopefully it goes well and we can continue. We are going to let Charlotte lead the way. So I need to really get busy with this. I want to start pre-schooling her this Fall.
5. Try to be a bit more laid back. About my house, Charlotte, really just life in general. Wish I were more of a go with the flow kind of person. Need to work on this.
6. Hire a babysitter now and then so my husband and I can have more date nights. This is really important and we do not have nearly enough of them. I find myself really missing time with just the two of us. Our family of three is very important to us, we love spending time together, but I do need to carve out a few nights a month for just us two.
7. Eat more fruit for snacks instead of cookies. Go back to eating oatmeal for breakfast at a normal breakfast time, instead of a cereal bar at 11:00 am.
8. Be more of a patient person.
9. Be crafty and create something, like a simple Valentine garland.
10. Get more creative with my cooking. I feel that we eat the same thing all the time. Find new recipes. Any suggestions??
I always like to include a few photos. Charlotte watched this sweet ladybug for at least an hour a few days ago.
Charlotte hanging out with our dog Bandit. I told you this was going to be a random post!
I am working on an art project in Charlotte's bathroom and will share photos next week.
Have a great weekend!
I wish you lived here! We could do a childcare swap. I started doing one with a friend (we are each just doing an hour a week so far) and it is so fun. The little boy who came over was so funny, and different than Tuesday, I think it was so good for her. I think we have a lot of the same goals. I have this secret wish to be more laid back and in reality am the kind of person who makes a spreadsheet of my daughter's Thomas the train pieces (I know! I'm crazy!).
ReplyDeleteYou are too funny! I know, I wish we lived closer. We will totally have to look you guys up when visit our friend in Oregon. The childcare swap is a great idea. I think Charlotte and Tuesday would have a blast playing together. It sounds like they are both "huge" Thomas the train fans.
ReplyDeleteGreat goals. Good luck. Happy New Year.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you have a great list of goals and 'to-dos' for this coming year. We too need to make more of an effort to do things as a couple, although it's hard with a baby. Finding some new exciting meals is something I need to do more when life here begins to settle down. Wishing you a wonderful year ahead x
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