A new year on the horizon.
I'm feeling a little lackluster with this year's goals. We have a new baby coming in the first half and probably most of the second half of the year will be adjusting to two kiddos, nursing, and trying to sleep! But I can share the ones I've been thinking of:
Lose the baby weight. - I can't tell yet how this one is going to go, so far I've gained 10lbs from my starting weight, but if you count the pounds I lost when I was nauseated and then gained back, I've gained 18lbs so far and 14(+?) weeks more to go. So who knows. Still trying to exercise several times a week and eat moderately. What else can ya do?
Get another rental property. - Doug got our pre-approval letter today and we plan to start looking in February.
Save money. - We had a goal of saving $1200 a month last year, looks like we only saved about 60% of that, but that doesn't include our 401ks, Roths, or HSA accounts. But we still would like to save more.
Read these books:
House Projects. - Since we are likely staying in our house another year or so there are a few more things we'd like to do specifically for us:
This one is more a goal for Doug, to replace the hall carpet with hardwoods. I don't really want to. It won't match the wood in the living room so that is a big deterrent to me, and also I like carpet for little ones crawling and learning to walk. So we'll see what happens.
I do want to replace the rug in the living room. I liked this thick rug originally, but it turns out it is a pain to vacuum and I don't like it anymore. I'd love to have a quality wool rug, but they are so expensive, so I'll settle for another cheapie to tide us over a couple more years.
The big one will be replacing the front deck with composite decking. We did the back deck this last year, and held off on the front, but as you can see it is chipping really badly and it's got to go. I like the composite decking we chose from Menards, but it too harbors some leaf stains and it's not 100% perfect-- but it's got to be better than chipping and peeling paint.
We plan to have the baby in our room for awhile and then have the two kids share the bigger back bedroom, so at some point that room will have to undergo a transformation from it's current treadmill/guest bed/storage/Doug's dresser and bookcase/closet situation. I'm kind of worried about it, but we'll just have to see how it goes. Oh wouldn't it be lovely to have a basement!
And my favorite goal, vacation. - We have a little babymoon planned for February, no where crazy, but a new place for us- Gulf Shores, Alabama. I'm looking forward to warm, sun and sand, and baby-free time! We'd also like to take a fall family trip somewhere. Either our friend is having a destination cruise wedding to Cozumel, or he might not do that anymore and that would free us up to go on our own trip. We'd LOVE to go back to Hawaii, but the flights are always so expensive and kinda worried about the time change with kids. We are also looking into Iceland. We shall see!
I'm done reading through the Bible in One Year, so my
spiritual goals for the year are to finish up
BSF this spring/summer, start the new class in the fall, and I have a variety of mini devotions to work through on my Bible app: Keep Your Love On: Connection, No More Unglued Mama Mornings, Wait and See, Discover the Jewish Jesus, and 5 Days to Freedom from Angry Parenting- these are all plans I have saved so far. It's nice because each one is 1-2 weeks so I can do several of them over the year. We are in a good place church-wise and also joined a small group this fall so hope to develop those relationships deeper.
God is good, trusting Him to lead us into the future and depend on Him.
House Projects. - Since we are likely staying in our house another year or so there are a few more things we'd like to do specifically for us:
This one is more a goal for Doug, to replace the hall carpet with hardwoods. I don't really want to. It won't match the wood in the living room so that is a big deterrent to me, and also I like carpet for little ones crawling and learning to walk. So we'll see what happens.
I do want to replace the rug in the living room. I liked this thick rug originally, but it turns out it is a pain to vacuum and I don't like it anymore. I'd love to have a quality wool rug, but they are so expensive, so I'll settle for another cheapie to tide us over a couple more years.
The big one will be replacing the front deck with composite decking. We did the back deck this last year, and held off on the front, but as you can see it is chipping really badly and it's got to go. I like the composite decking we chose from Menards, but it too harbors some leaf stains and it's not 100% perfect-- but it's got to be better than chipping and peeling paint.
We plan to have the baby in our room for awhile and then have the two kids share the bigger back bedroom, so at some point that room will have to undergo a transformation from it's current treadmill/guest bed/storage/Doug's dresser and bookcase/closet situation. I'm kind of worried about it, but we'll just have to see how it goes. Oh wouldn't it be lovely to have a basement!
And my favorite goal, vacation. - We have a little babymoon planned for February, no where crazy, but a new place for us- Gulf Shores, Alabama. I'm looking forward to warm, sun and sand, and baby-free time! We'd also like to take a fall family trip somewhere. Either our friend is having a destination cruise wedding to Cozumel, or he might not do that anymore and that would free us up to go on our own trip. We'd LOVE to go back to Hawaii, but the flights are always so expensive and kinda worried about the time change with kids. We are also looking into Iceland. We shall see!
I'm done reading through the Bible in One Year, so my spiritual goals for the year are to finish up BSF this spring/summer, start the new class in the fall, and I have a variety of mini devotions to work through on my Bible app: Keep Your Love On: Connection, No More Unglued Mama Mornings, Wait and See, Discover the Jewish Jesus, and 5 Days to Freedom from Angry Parenting- these are all plans I have saved so far. It's nice because each one is 1-2 weeks so I can do several of them over the year. We are in a good place church-wise and also joined a small group this fall so hope to develop those relationships deeper.
God is good, trusting Him to lead us into the future and depend on Him.
Those are good. Off the top of my head, biggest goal is to figure out our house situation. Selling/moving/renting/building/moving again could easily consume the year (like it did in 2017!)
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to read more. So far 2019 not off to a great start.
With our house stuff, it's also likely we won't get our first rental til next year. But we'll keep piling the money and maybe next year we can get two and start things with a bang!
Will need to think harder for some additional, deeper and more personal goals.