Tis' the Season to be...

...thinking about resolutions!

We are one month into this New Year, but I would like to talk about my thoughts and goals for the new year.

I hate using the word “resolutions”, because for me it implies failure. So many people make new year resolutions and within weeks they are back to where they started. For me I want to use the word “goals”. For me,  that word means “Somewhere I want to be, or achieve, by the end of the year. I will change methods and tactics, in order to get where I want to be”.

For years I have been very interested in interior decorating. I find it very hard to pursue that while renting a house, and despite that, I don’t usually know where to start. My Husband usually sees stuff we can do before I can and does it before I can (boy, does that make me feel like a failure, especially when interior decorating is a field I would like to be good at). I guess he’s just better at seeing stuff like that than I am. I guess I have also been preoccupied with figuring out how to get my household running good in a new house and with two girls, to really focus on it all. Maybe that is not my forte right now. For me, I love cooking and working in the kitchen, and they say, Write what you know. That is what I know, so that is what the focus of my blog focus is going to be for now, because that is what I know!

What are my goals for the new year? So glad you asked!

• Make (cook or bake) one thing each week

This is something I have always loved to do! I love trying new things especially things that you would normally buy at the grocery store. I want to learn more and more how to make, instead of buy them!

• Blog once a week (starting now!)

That is a big commitment for me because once I run out of inspiration it usually stops. I am also a person who, when I see something that needs to be done, I will do it even if I was in the middle of doing something else. I have been learning to stop myself when I realize I am about to leave a project, or a chore, to do something else I see that needs to be done. For example: I am cleaning up the kitchen or the bathroom, I go to put something in the dirty laundry pile (which is in my closet ::Blush::) and then all of the sudden I see my bed needs to be made, or some things need to be picked up. IF I remember,  I  have to stop myself, and go back to what I was doing first. Anywayyyyyy!!! Wow that was a rabbit trail and a half!

• Keep my weekly schedule

Monday: Tidy up the house from the weekend and bake something!

Tuesday: My day to blog, read (maybe), do school with princess A, and keep the house tidy, and watch Food Network (HGTV has nothing that interests right now).

Wednesday: Laundry day.

Thursday: clean my floors           

Friday: clean my house

If I can keep my schedule, I have everything in control, and time to spare. Before , I found things piling up, and I felt overwhelmed at times. It’s so simple, and keeps me from getting overwhelmed. It makes me happy when I get up in the morning to know what I need to do and that it’s only one or two things, and not a pile of things (besides laundry)!

• Spend time with my girls

They are growing so fast! I want to be able to have a good relationship with them, and that starts now. Even at the ages of 3 and 2 ½ months, I think for me it means cuddling my Princess C, doing school with Princess A, reading to her, and looking at her and acknowledging what she’s saying ( that is very important to her!). If I want an open relationship with my children as teenagers, It needs to start being open and interact with them now!

These just some of my goals, others are the ones we usually make. Weight loss (and I’m well on my way!), and spend more time with God, and His word.

What are some of the goals you have made for this year?

How do you make your house a home? This is an idea I want to talk about in the very near future. I want to hear some of your ideas, to feature some of them, and to learn off of you all!

  Blessings!

 Karen E.