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2014 Resolution Recap

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Time for my yearly look back at how badly I failed at my resolutions for the past year.  Not being negative, just realistic. 😉  I set the bar low this past year, knowing that I would have some major changes in my life; I did not set the bar quite low enough, though.

Blog More
First up was to blog more.  59 posts published in 2014 compared to 45 posts published in 2013.  I would say that this resolution was a success  I set the bar pretty low on this one, but it was an achievable goal.  Having 2 kids has really made it difficult to find time to write coherently; nap time is usually reserved for laundry, cleaning, and coffee.  This year, I also feel like I had much less to say in general.  So much of my day is taken up with the small difficulties of being a mom that I don’t have anything to say outside of that.

Eat More Family Meals
Technically, we did this one, but not as well as I was hoping to.  Once R was here, it was much more difficult to sit down for a meal than I expected.  Now that things are getting into more of a routine, we end up feeding the kids together around 5 pm and J and I eat together after the kids go to bed.  One or both of us always sit with the kids while they eat so I am going to count that as a family meal.  I hope that with R eating more solid food, we can get better with this as the new year evolves.

Write Thank You Notes
Christmas thank you notes are still pending, but I actually did this one. I wrote thank you notes for L’s birthday gifts and for the baby shower gifts that I received for R.  I am also in the process of writing them for all of the Christmas gifts we received.  I did miss on writing them for my birthday, but that just gives me room for improvement for next year.

Re-Read Books
This is one that I was able to do as well, but not as much as I was hoping to. I read 3 old books for every new book that I bought, but I did not hit the 5 old books per 1 new book that I was aiming for.  Over the past year, I have become addicted to my Nook.  I now do not like reading paper books if I can help it.  As much as I would like to keep reading paper books, if only for the vintage appeal of it, I cannot ignore the benefits of eReaders any longer.  Light included with the book, not as heavy as a real book, easier to hold, and much easier to find the next book in a series (and way too easy to buy a new book with the click of a button).

Go To 10 New Places
I failed abysmally at this goal.  I will use the excuse of having a new baby in the house as my reason for not going to new places.  We did go to quite a few places, which were new to R, but not many were new to all of us.  The few new places we went to were

  1. San Jose Ramen Festival
  2. Parts of Las Vegas – namely some very nice resteraunts
  3. L went to Tatum’s Garden with his grandparents
  4. L and R went to San Francisco for the first time for my 4th Trimester Bodies photo shoot

So, in the end, I would say that I made a solid B effort on completing the resolutions.  I am hoping too either set the bar lower this next year or to make an A+ effort towards getting the resolutions completed.  Considering how much I already have on my plate, I think I will be setting the bar very, very low.

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2014 Resolutions

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Well, here we go.  It is time for another list of things that I am going to try to do this year.  I hope that I am being realistic this year and making my goals acheivable, but I guess only time will tell.  5 goals seemed like a good number from last year, so that is what I am going with again this year.  Wish me luck!

 

Blog More

Isn't this a required resolution for every blogger?  If you blog enough, don't you want to improve your writting or comunity or something?  So, this year, instead of putting a set number of required posts to this resolution, I am just going to leave it as an ephereal "more".  With a baby on the way, I don't know how much time I am going to have to blog, but if I do even one more post this year, over last year, I will consider this a win.  I would like to do more, but as I remember from L's newborn stage, setting the bar low is essential to maintaining my sanity.

 

Eat More Family Meals

I think this is going to be something that I struggle with for years to come.  L eats dinner at 5:30 when J picks him up from daycare.  I get home at 6:30 and I play with L for an hour before the bedtime routine starts.  L is in bed by 8 and then J and I make and eat our usually unhealthy yet fast dinner.  I would love to have a family dinner night in the future, but as long as L demands food before I get home, I don't foresee that in the future.  So for this goal, I am going to focus on weekend meals.  Eating even a sandwich for lunch, all of us together.  Most days it is just easier to feel L and then J and I eat later (if at all), but we need to work on L's eating habits.  He needs to learn to be more patient at the table and let other people eat their food too.  A tall order for a 2.5 year old, but I think he has the capability within him.

 

Write Thank You Notes

I was horrible at writting thank you notes in 2013.  I wrote them for Christmas the year before, and then the notes just kept piling up on the desk.  I never even got L's birthday thank you's written and sent out.  A bummer because they were really cute, in my opinion.  So this year, I want to write thank you's for Christmas, L's birthday, any baby gifts I get, and my birthday.  J can write his own birthday thank yous.

 

Re-Read Books

I have been horrid about this recently.  I used to pride myself on how I could re-read so many of my books and enjoy them just as much the 2nd, 3rd, or even 5th time around.  Some books I have read more than 15 times!  Unfortunately, with the purchase of my Nook, I am too easily able to just buy a new book with the tap of a finger.  No credit card to enter because it is stored in there, no sales people to deal with, and no negotiating with J about how many books we can afford for me to buy.  I hesitate to determine how -much I have spent on books in 2013; I already know it is too much.  So in 2014 I am going to re-read more books.  I am going to re-read a minimum of 3 books for every 1 that I purchase.  Well, that was my goal at first but I think I need to change it to a 5:1 ratio.  I have already re-read 2 books and it is only 9 days into the new year…

 

Go To 10 New PlacesI liked this resolution so much from last year that I am putting it in this year again.  This time, I hope to have less cop-out locations (like parks) on the list and more real ones.  With 2 kids I think this will be a real challenge for me.  I am already planning on taking L to the Tech Museum, the Children's Discovery Museum, and maybe (strong maybe) to his first movie.  Other than those two, I don't have anything new planned as of yet.  I am hoping that I will be inspired as the year progresses.