After a great Christmas spent with family and friends, I was more than ready to start a new year. Rather than make a resolution that I knew I wouldn't keep (I've never been able to keep one in the past), I decided to set some goals to work on throughout the year.
Here are my 12 goals for 2012 (in no particular order):
1. Spend more time playing with my daughter. Cameryn is growing up so fast! She's no longer a baby - she's a little person. She's learning something new every day and I want to make sure that I get to experience all of it.
2. Make time for date nights. Although I love my daughter beyond belief, I love my husband too. We both need to make sure that we have some grown-up time as well as play time with Cam.
3. Exercise more.
4. Eat better. Rather than make a goal of losing weight and probably failing, I decided that focusing on exercising and eating better would end with the same results but would be easier for me to attain.
5. Conduct Spring cleaning. I want to use a spare room as a playroom for Cameryn but can't even consider it until it's cleaned out. My goal is to have a garage sale and use the money to buy a big girl bed for my little lady.
6. Reconnect with old friends. Now that I have a "real" job (meaning no nights, weekends, or holidays) I'd love to reconnect with some friends from high school and college that I've lost touch with over the years. Facebook has helped me to start that process.
7. Have more mommy-daughter days. Aric is so lucky! He typically has 2 days off during the week when the majority of our family is working or in school. Cameryn and Aric spend those days together playing outside, going to the zoo or museum, and just hanging out. Sometimes they visit some friends but they mostly hang out just the two of them. My days off are on the weekends and Cam and I spend most of that time rotating visits between family members. It seems like most weekends that we're home, someone is down visiting or we have other plans. I would like to set aside at least 2 days a month for just the 2 of us to spend together.
8. Have a project. Right now I haven't decided for sure what I want to do but I'm leaning toward planting a garden in the spring. I've never done it before and I've killed every plant I've been given but it seems like a good challenge. However I'm open to suggestions.
9. Read a book. Before I had Cameryn I loved to read. It was nothing for me to read a book or two a week. While I was pregnant I had trouble focusing so didn't spend a whole lot of time reading. And since then, I'd much rather play with Cameryn than read. And it's very difficult to focus on a book with an 18-month-old running around a yelling every other word. I'd really like to enjoy a good book again.
10. Watch less TV. During the year that I was unemployed I got hooked on several TV shows. Now I find myself watching more TV than I ever have before. My goal is to cut down on the amount of time the TV is on, especially when Cameryn and I are playing. There's no need to have it on in the background as a distraction.
11. Organize my house and my life. I am extremely organized at work. I have to be able to find what I need. My house is a whole other story. It's gotten a little out of control which I need to remedy.
12. Relax and enjoy. It seems like I'm always on the go or have a list of things that I need to enjoy. Even when I take the time to just relax I feel guilty because I should be doing 30 other things. I'm going to set aside a certain amount of time each day to just relax.
I've already made progress on several of these goals. I'm looking forward to a great 2012!!!
