Oh wow, another year behind and all the potential of the new year ahead.
Taking a look back on the goals I set in January:
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- Complete the Love & Respect workbook with Doug. - Yikes, only read 16 out of 52.
- Date nights 1x a month (and weekly "date nights/connection time" at home also. - Date nights done in February, May, August, September, and October. Room for improvement!
- Attend a marriage conference. - Yes! Our church hosted a really great marriage conference based on this Cherish book, we also went to another one-night marriage conference hosted by the Christian radio station.
- Do The Husband Project. - No, but I still want to.
- Pray consistently for Doug and our marriage. - I've been praying thru the Power of a Praying Wife book of prayers, I really love this little book. It covers all the basics. I read thru 1.5 times and plan to just keep praying through it again and again. Of course, there can never been enough prayer and always room for more.
Mothering Goals:
- Complete the Parenting from Surviving to Thriving workbook together. - We made progress! We're up to 8 out of 12 lessons done now.
- Continue "Monday Momming" prayer check-ins with Liz. - Yes! Liz and I have been faithfully emailing on Mondays, sharing our prayer requests, and praying for each other during the week.
- * remember people matter more than a clean house!!! * - Uggg, this one is really hard to "check off", it's been a hard year of trying to prioritize people through the piles of toys and crafts and laundry and dishes... so this definitely needs to be still continued to be on my heart.
- Finish BSF. - Finished John and now 3 months into the Revelation study.
- Use the "snooze button" time to read my Bible instead. - Total fail. Not only didn't do this, but also so many times of snoozing in instead of getting started with my day.
Work Goals:
- Write 2 flashcards per shift: 1 drug and 1 disease/condition to study up on. - Ok, I started off good on this. Until halfway thru the year the hospital went through a really huge charting change and it took a lot more time to get used to. I have mixed feelings on if I want to continue this goal or not. I for sure can use the refreshers of all the different medicines and so many conditions, but I have also started to use those few minutes here and there during my shift to read through some of my parenting books, and have made some progress with them, so that has also seemed a good use of time also.
Personal Goals:
- Use the harp lessons from my 40th bday. - Fail.
- Read (some?) of my book pile:
- I read from my pile (and those added to it):
Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist
The Silver Chair (with August)
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
The Magician's Nephew (with August)
For the Love of Discipline (loved it)
Habits for Godly Women
Don't Make me Count to Three! (loved it)
The Last Battle (with August)
Why Doesn't God Stop Evil?
Love & Logic (and took a 8wk parenting course)
Little House in the Big Woods (with August)
Women, Food and Hormones
Habits of the Household (loved!!)
And I read for bookclub:
The Saints of Swallow Hill
The Women
Just for the Summer (loved it)
The Tattoist of Auswitz
Maybe Next Time
The Unhoneymooners
For a Lifetime
should've been 12, but 1 missed the first 2 trying a new business venture and was too busy, 1 didn't come from the library, and 1 about 7 husbands I didn't want to read.
Fitness Goals:
- Complete the 10 minute plan. - Finished it. Not my favorite, but some good workouts.
- Complete the Firm 30 series. - Finished it. And going thru it again now. In it, I found some workout moves that I've never seen before. And I feel really strong doing it.
- I'll add myself to the millions of people who want to lose 10 lbs as a resolution! I've slowly and steadily gained weight since quitting breastfeeding last spring. My body is actually at what I would say the weight it likes to be at, but I like to be about 5-10 lbs lighter. Even that little makes a difference in the looseness of the pants, the effort to run up a flight of stairs, the difference in my face in photos, etc. Just obviously hard to do, especially when one already exercises and eats pretty healthfully, and is now over 40... 😩 - Lost 4-5lbs over the year as a whole, looking back at my January weight. It really helped that I read this great book over the summer, really made me think and get motivated to make some changes. And I'm reading thru this one now too. It's really good, and I'm wanting to do more keto challenges in 2025 as well.
Not resolutions, but hopes:
- More photos in our photo travel map. - We went to Nevada/Utah/California over winter break and did some National Parks. We did a family vacation in the Dells in Wisconsin and went up to Minnesota to spend some time with my cousins there too. Then we had a wedding and some time in Chicago. So we got 5 new pictures for our travel map!
- We're also looking to move, although I'm not going to move unless it's "the one". I do need to pray that Doug and I will be in unity about a decision- we ended up having some good conversations from what happened with the house we lost out on, but it was hard. We need to have a team approach going forward. - We offered on a house for ourselves, but got outbid, so that was that. But we didn't fight too much about it, so that was a pro!
- Doug has been wanting to do something volunteer wise with the kids, so we've been thinking about what we could do while still having little ones. - Mostly no, our church has something called "secret service" where pop-up volunteer opportunities arise, with not a big time investment usually, so Doug did one with August once setting up chairs and tables, and I did one with him decorating for Christmas. But room for more.
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It's been a hard year, good overall, room for personal improvement. Lots of joys, lots of hard things, some painful loss, and worry, and stress. But also witnessing God's goodness and faithfulness too.
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