Goals time! One huge win of the past few months is developing a regular meditation habit for the first time ever. 🎉 Now, let’s develop some more habits, yes?
HEALTH:
Walk 6,000 steps a day. // I have been very sloth-like lately. Plus, I am no longer leaving 3 mornings a week to walk downtown to work while a babysitter comes. Which means that built-in necessary walking time is gone. It’s getting colder and I’ll have to make more of an effort to get walking. Especially since I struggle to find time to do so since I’m in charge of kids for much of the week. (And taking them on a walk is hardly an areobic activity. Looking at you, dwadling 3-year-old). But I will prevail. (And I know, 6,000 steps is not that ambitious. Did I mention sloth-like tendencies?
FAMILY:
Journal kids stuff . // I have five-year one sentence journals for each of my kids. The idea is that I write about them every day. The reality is I’ve written it, like, once a month. I tend to tweet the funny things they say, but what if Twitter is gone in 20 years! Where will all the cute and funny memories go?? I want to try to write in them every day. The logistic hurdle I’ve found is that I forget about them when I store them in the cupboard. So I’ll just keep them on the kitchen table and drive myself crazy with more clutter. But achieve this goal! (I hope.)
MONEY:
Plan Christmas budgeting and presents. // Perhaps do cards? Perhaps not. I want to be able to enjoy our December and not feel rushed. We are generally quite low-key about Christmas, but I want to be even lower key. If that’s possbile. Gabe did tell me this week when I mentioned I wanted to do this, “Just don’t buy anything for me and Theo. We already have too much stuff.” HA. I already got the LEGO advent calendar. I’m so excited to give it to them!
BUSINESS:
Finalize website & blog about it. // It has been a slower business season for me, which gave me the opportunity to finally overhaul my business website. It’s almost finalized, just a few little tweaks to make. I can’t wait to share it!
You could also (if you don’t already have this as a separate thing) involve the kiddos in the journal writing! One of the coolest things my parents did was have me dictate and then eventually write a sentence or two about my day at bedtime. I love being able to look back at what I thought was important when I was in kindergarten.
I am glad to see you blogging again! I always like reading what you write.
Last year we finished Christmas and I confessed to my husband (who does not track our day to day finances- I do) that I had spent more than I should have on gifts. It was impulse buying and wanting to make the season magical for my kids, blah blah blah. He set a reminder in his phone, which came up last weekend: “Discuss Christmas budget with Katherine and set realistic goals”. Ha! I needed that reminder from him, as well as hearing that your boys are a-okay with their toy supply as it is.
Yes!! The impulse to “make Christmas magical” is so real and can wreak havoc on my budget and clutter! I feel you there. I’d even rather just fill their stocking with granola bars and goldfish and Little Debbies than junk I’ll be giving away in a year!