I just re-read last year's list and things are so different now . . .
Last year . . .
I wrote my list in the sunny climes of Lanzarote, managing to post it on the 31st of December
I had a mission of reaching my goal weight by my thirtieth birthday without going on the biggest loser
I didn't put "have a baby" on my thirty things to do before I turn thirty list because I really was starting to doubt that we'd be so blessed
I was sure I would read through the whole of the Bible by May
I was certain I'd complete my wedding album
I thought I'd never know what it was to feel healthy most days, plagued as I was by sinusitis, hayfever, animal allergies and chronic rhinitis - minor as those ailments are
This year . . .
I'm amazingly going to get my list up on the second of January, writing it on my sofa/sat up in bed in the cold but surprisingly mild Norn Iron
I accept that I have no chance of reaching my goal weight but will be aiming to remove about twenty pounds of the excess by my 30th because . . .
We were gloriously blessed with our beautiful Bundle in Novemebr (6 weeks yesterday)
My lack of self-discipline, not to mention lack of concentration with pregnancy and now baby brain, won through and I'm still wading through the Old Testament. I pray I'm able to instil much better Bible reading skills in my Bundle than I've thus far managed for myself
I've still done nothing of my wedding album
Our Lanzarote holiday cleared my system and imbued me with many months of healthiness before being pregnant gave me ten months practically sneeze free. I fear the effects of both have worn thin, either that or I just have a cold, but hopefully we'll be taking a wee winter week to Fuertaventura in January deo volente and that will give me another few months grace - I must say I enjoy the snot-free me much more! TMI I know!
Anywho here's this year's list that I will probably only return to next New Year's having ignored it for most of the year once more . . . except that it also incorporates the most likely to be accomplished elements of my "Thirty List" which I have been fairly consistent in working toward. Some of this list I am more than willing to forego in favour of the more important activity of rearing my gorgeousness Bundle.
Spiritual
1. Pray, read and meditate on the Word daily, for as little or as long as I'm able to
2. Participate in a church prayer day, with Bundle naturally, this involves manning the church prayer room for an hour on the last Saturday of the month
3. Daily pray for my husband and our marriage
4. Daily pray for and over my son
5. Pray often for unsaved immediate family - my son, nieces and nephews, 2 BILs, SIL, MIL and FIL
6. Pray often for the well being of my estranged sister and her family and for family healing
Organisational
1. Build a better morning routine for Bundle and I, including my spiritual daily goals
2. Build a better bedtime routine for Bundle and I, including the laying out of clothes
3. Continue good habits, now well-established
- to leave out clothes for Bundle and I, along with (re-)stocking the baby bag nightly
- to make the bed first thing
- to open the blinds first thing
- to wash and dress myself first thing and to dress Bundle
- to oil Bundle nightly until no longer required to offset his dry skin
- to do laundry six days a week as necessary and to dry it, fold it and put it away asap
- to keep the nursery, lounge and guest bath tidy at all times
4. Build on and add to established good habits
- to add small daily cleaning tasks in order to clean and then maintain my home
- to re-start menu planning in order to nourish my family
- to daily wipe down the kitchen counters and sink
- to take my son out for daily walks to help my physical goal of weight loss and also perk up my mental state
- to practice pelvic floor exercises as I feed
- to have laundry washed and in the dryer/hung up by noon
- to implement a regular Saturday night bath routine for Bundle and I
5. Keep better account of my time, using routines and daily tasks and also my watch, the timer on my phone/microwave and our family calendar/diary
Bloggy
1. Blog every day for a month
2. Continue to put up a decluttering post at the start of each month, whether the link ups at a slob comes clean continue or not - I've gotten rid of so much *stuff* using the link-ups over the past two years and it's been so therapeutic and my home looks all the better for it.
3. Continue to blog my weekly weigh-ins
Physical
1. Continue weekly weigh-ins
2. Daily exercise, beginning gently and gradually increasing
3. Work to lose an overall average of a pound a week until my birthday (pregnancy and gall bladder operation permitting) i.e. at least twenty pounds in the next twenty weeks, as of today I have 53 lbs to lose to reach my goal, read - healthy, weight. I'll use my Ki-fit to help.
4. Work to lose a further (pregnancy etc. permitting) twenty pounds across the remainder of the year. Yes I am setting this deliberately low, this is to allow for holidays and the associated gain, off-days/weeks and plateaus*.
5. To practice my pelvic floor/Kiegel exercises daily
6. To work daily on some aspect of my personal grooming
7. To work to reduce my "jelly belly"
Intellectual/Mental/Commitment Goals
1. Work on my family tree every day for a month
2. Work on my tax return daily beginning ASAP until it is completed (deadline being Jan 31st)
3. Read at least twelve books across the year
4. Complete at least four puzzle books across the year
5. Play the piano every day for a month and learn a new tune
6. Work on our wedding album every day for a month or until completed
7. Declutter an average of at least four things a day across the year. (Sounds a big ask except I decluttered an average of ? Things a day across 2011 and ? /day across 2010).
8. Grow my nails and get a French manicure to celebrate
Parental
1. Work to continue feeding Bundle across the year
2. Work to almost exclusively use reusable nappies on him
3. Research Elimination Communication more thoroughly and try to incorporate it
4. Introduce sign to Bundle and be committed to incorporating it into our days
5. Do blanket training with Bundle to better enable my return to work in August, since he will be going to work with me
6. Develop routines and daily interactive activites to decrease the likelihood of PPD, general depresssion or attachment problems between us, also to keep my focus on his development for specific periods of time each day thus not allowing me to get caught p in non-Bundle activites for the duration of whole days - I know how easily distracted I am and how little sense of time I have.
7. Develop my knowledge of scripture and catechise myself in order to later catechise Bundle
8. To endeavour to make use of all of Bundle's many (over 120) baby gifts and to send out thank you picture postcards to all who sent cards and/or gifts
9. To fill out one of Bundle's many gifted baby books
10. To take lots of photographs of Bundle
11. To attend a baby massage course, if possible, and practice the skills learnt
Homely
1. Make a patchwork quilt or similar
2. Decorate the house for the "seasons"
3. Maintain the already in place systems and develop new organisational, tidying and cleaning systems to improve the look, feel and use of our home
4. Work on improving storage within and use of the barn, laundry and freezer areas as well as tidying and decluttering the barn
Happy New Year Blogosphere!
*As a complete aside I doubted myself as I typed the word plateaus, after all its origins are French and therefore shouldn't the plural require the addition of an -x instead of the English -s. The dictionary assures me however that either spelling is correct as the word has become such a part of the English language.
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