I want to post about my New Year's Resolutions, but first I want to give a little update.
Apparently, in all the drama, I had totally forgotten that the doctor said to stay on my prenatals. I am back on them, and doing much better. I still get a little sad, but I'm not randomly bursting into tears or randomly shouting at Brian and the kids anymore. So, that's wonderful! I feel much more like myself and I am sleeping much better. All good things.
Brian and I have picked up a new client that we intend to share with Emily and Soren. It's just editing videos, so it's easy stuff, but extra money for us all. Hooray!
Some of you know I have been writing a screenplay for a TV show with my friend, Kari. We are several drafts into the first two episodes, and had two successful staged readings of those episodes, which gave us some very helpful feedback! Episodes 3 and 4 are still in drafting. We are currently working on our pitch presentation with the help of Kari's father, who does things similar to this for a living. Beginning of February, Kari and her family should be moving up here from St. George which will make our working together SO MUCH EASIER. Also, she is one of my closest friends and I am just ecstatic to be closer to them!
James is doing well with potty training. He usually can stay dry all night, and will wake up to go potty in the night, but we did have a little accident last night/this morning. He still wears a pull-up, usually, while we run errands, but has occasionally gone in underwear and been fine. Even when he is in a pull-up, he is still pretty good about going potty. He won't poop by sitting on the toilet seat anymore though. Once he learned he could pee standing up, he decided he need to poop standing up. While the seat is up, he sort of leans his bum up just enough to poop in the toilet. He is so silly!
He also gets to start Primary this year! Woo hoo! I am a little nervous because he just LOVED nursery. But, we went and met his teachers yesterday, and he seemed to do well with that. He would have gone today, but we all stayed home from church sick. We are mostly getting over it, but it turns out, James just started.
Aria is doing well. We are slowly but surely working our way to finishing her room. It still is somewhat of a storage room for us, but we made a lot of progress in there this week. I can't wait to finish it! It's going to be amazing!
Okay, now you're all caught up on us. Let's talk about New Year's Resolutions. It's maybe a tad late to be calling them that. Maybe they are just Goals For The Year. Whatever. Here they are:
1- Blog more. Big shocker. This was on my list last year, and while I didn't do every week, like I wanted, I did okay in the beginning. But, I definitely fizzled out quickly. Hopefully, I can at least post every month this year.
2-Take more photos/be in more photos/keep up with my instagram. I love the Chatbooks app and I have been terrible about keeping up with it. But, it's the easiest/cheapest way to scrapbook and journal at the same time. All you do is post to Instagram and it does the rest of the work for you. But, I also feel I am not in enough photos. Especially Brian and I together. I heard somewhere that your kids don't care if you don't feel you look your best, they want to remember you anyway. I want to give them that.
3- Get a planner/use said planner. My memory is becoming totally useless and I don't listen to my phone when it tells me to do stuff anymore. If I could train myself to look at a planner and trust my planner and go through my schedule every night, it would help me out a bunch! I have also found a bunch of fun planner pages/stickers/kits that will be fun for me to do. I am having Brian help me make some too, since not everyone is as into Classic Hollywood as I am. He already has a bunch of minimalist art from the time, and now he is going to help me make other kinds of art to turn into stickers and pages and such.
4- Read more. I think this may also have been on my list last year. I don't think this really happened at all. I found a list of 26 books to read this year. They aren't titles, just descriptions (i.e., a book someone recommends to you, a book by a female, a book published over 100 years ago, etc.) So, I have slowly been filling it out. When I finish it I will publish it on here as a separate post and link it here.
5- Go on monthly adventures. This was also on my last years list, but I actually think we totally accomplished this one! And, then some! We did so many fun new things as a family! Not all of them were new, I guess, but we did some great stuff. This year I hope to be better at keeping a record of it. Hopefully, each monthly post on the blog will contain our adventures of the previous month. That's the goal anyway...
6- Monthly theme word. Everyone is coming up with their mantra for the year, and I like the idea, but I want to do a new one every month. I will have to get back to you on my word for this month though. Maybe it should be Change. I need to be more open to change, and trying new things. Yeah, let's going with Change.
7- Get organized. Ugh, my room. My closets throughout the house. The kids rooms. All of it. We are in desperate need of organization in this house.
8- Finish Aria's Room. Please Bless! So much left to do.
9- Dance Regularly. I finally got permission to dance at the church, and may have at least one person interested in doing it with me. We are starting out with Monday and Wednesday mornings. This is such good exercise for me! I love dance!
10- Be more social. I need more friends and definitely need more Friend Time. I need to get out, hang out, be with adults sometimes. Any volunteers?
11- Night Time Yoga/Meditation. My anxiety attacks have sort of been through the roof the last few months. I think a short yoga and/or meditation routine every night before bed could seriously benefit me.
12- Travel More. We are planning on going to Spain this summer for my brother in laws wedding! That's exciting because I have not yet left the country. It's also stressful because in order to get a passport, I must first get a new birth certificate, because the state of California has decided mine is no longer valid... I hate them for it. They can go jump in the ocean.
13- 8 Week Challenge. My sister started an 8 Week Challenge this week, and I will probably start tomorrow. You get points for certain things like drinking enough water, or going without sugar, etc. You report back to her. I don't think you get a prize, so much as someone to hold you accountable. That's really what I need. She also bought a treadmill recently that she said I could come use. If I do dance on Mondays and Wednesdays then maybe I could go to her house to run for a bit on Tuesdays and Thursdays and BONUS, my children would get a play date out of it! Sounds good to me.
If you made it through that whole post, you deserve a prize. Holy smokes that is long! But, it feels good to get all that out there in the open. What are your resolutions/goals this year?
