Showing posts with label Resolutions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Resolutions. Show all posts

Saturday, April 20, 2013

{commit} update 3


I'm checking in with my 2013 commitments!

The original posts with my checkin in red!!

Work comes home a few nights a week with me.  I don't always get to it though.  Playtime is WAY more fun.
Yep! Still not bringing home much work at all and haven't been going to work on the weekends! However I have been next door visiting a bit more lately.....
-----Totally doing this!  I don't bring much of anything home and I've only went to the school one day on one weekend...that's it! WOOP WOOP-----------
I didn't bring home piles of work each night/weekend.  I didn't spend countless hours at the school on the weekends.  Sure, maybe once a month (dang centers) I spent a few good hours there on a Sunday....but it wasn't EVERY weekend or EVERY night. 

**I'm committing to that again.  
I need to use my time at the school wisely and not always 
over talking to bugging Alysha :-)
I only have the evenings with Parker once I'm back at work so I want to make the most out of them.  Sure I might have a few things to bring home to work on here and there, but it won't be as much as it used to be.

This past week was bad. We have been doing a lot better though.  
Less boxed meals are being made and we are now consistently having a vegetable each night.
---Let's not talk about this one yet.  I'm not making boxed meals and neither is Chad as much, but I still feel like they could be better. So, still working on this one.------
**I also want to try and make cleaner meals...less boxed stuff.  
I'm committing to 1x a week for now.  I think that's reasonable.  
I can't commit to an all or nothing....that isn't reasonable.

We are cleaning one day a week still.  BUT I have started doing a quick 10 minute pick up after P goes down for the night.  I've also been trying to do a load of laundry each day or every other day so that it doesn't all get done one day.  
....still working on finding a happy medium.... hopefully something will find us soon because we are going to have a crawler in a few short months from the way he's trying to pull himself right now!
------This is still a work in progress.  We are teaming the cleaning but doing it all in one day--------
**I also want to find a balance for keeping the house clean.  I used to spend one day during the weekend to clean...that gets to be too much when your husband is just a "picker upper" and not a "cleaner".  So maybe Mondays I'll clean up the whole kitchen, Tuesdays I'll do windows, etc etc.  I'm bound to find a balance somewhere. I've got quite a few "cleaning schedules" pinned on pinterest....


A shelf has been made for our room, coasters were made for the house, I just finished a "welcome" sign for the entryway, and am currently working on some decor for the big wall in our bedroom.
...nothing more has really gone up.  I did put some blocks up and changed out seasonal decor....
----Got the coat hooks up finally! That's a start!------
**I am committing to finally getting the house decorated....

this one may just be a crap shoot....
not yet....
------Haven't done this yet-------
**I'd like to explore the Dave Ramsey envelope system again...
not committing to doing it, just exploring it a little more.

Next up is the spare bedroom downstairs.....
We went through and got rid of tons of stuff! It's not perfect, but it is better!
------Haven't done this yet-------
**The utility room WILL get organized in 2013...COMMITTED!

No new books lately!
I've read a sleep book and I'm reading a baby food book right now...so nothing for pleasure since the first two.
----I have totally read 2 books so far!-----
**I'm committing to reading 1 book for pleasure this year.  
I haven't done this in awhile and I'd like to.  
So I'm committing to one, if I read more than that GREAT!   

Essential oils are being explored in my house (THANKS DAD) now.  
I went to a Pinterest Party and tried a maple bacon doughnut (but only because it was brought to me at work--for the record...it wasn't that bad). So that is 3 things already that I can think of currently--it may be more.
-----I tried new make up in January.  I really like it!  Yoga is in my near future also I think!-------
**I'm committing to trying/doing/going to 5 different things.  Maybe it's going to a new store, going for a walk in a different park than normal, trying to crochet, attending an event we've never been to... WHO KNOWS! The possibilities are endless!
 I would commit to 12, but that is one a month and that 
is not currently reasonable for ME. 
 5 is a good number...

Yeah I suck at this now.  I used to be so on top of it before P, but now by the time he goes to bed and I have everything laid out and ready for the next day I'm BEAT and I just want to go to bed so I push bill paying and checkbook balancing to the next day, and the next, and the next.....
I still haven't found a good solution.
---This is in place and is lame...not fond of it at all------
I've also got a new bill book idea that we will be starting in January.  With this record keeping I have decided it's best to start fresh by following the calendar....so this doesn't get changed up often =)


How are your 2013 commitments going???

Sunday, March 10, 2013

{commit} update 2


I'm checking in with my 2013 commitments!

The original posts with my checkin in red!!

Yep! Still not bringing home much work at all and haven't been going to work on the weekends! However I have been next door visiting a bit more lately.....
-----Totally doing this!  I don't bring much of anything home and I've only went to the school one day on one weekend...that's it! WOOP WOOP-----------
I didn't bring home piles of work each night/weekend.  I didn't spend countless hours at the school on the weekends.  Sure, maybe once a month (dang centers) I spent a few good hours there on a Sunday....but it wasn't EVERY weekend or EVERY night. 

**I'm committing to that again.  
I need to use my time at the school wisely and not always 
over talking to bugging Alysha :-)
I only have the evenings with Parker once I'm back at work so I want to make the most out of them.  Sure I might have a few things to bring home to work on here and there, but it won't be as much as it used to be.

Less boxed meals are being made and we are now consistently having a vegetable each night.
---Let's not talk about this one yet.  I'm not making boxed meals and neither is Chad as much, but I still feel like they could be better. So, still working on this one.------
**I also want to try and make cleaner meals...less boxed stuff.  
I'm committing to 1x a week for now.  I think that's reasonable.  
I can't commit to an all or nothing....that isn't reasonable.

....still working on finding a happy medium.... hopefully something will find us soon because we are going to have a crawler in a few short months from the way he's trying to pull himself right now!
------This is still a work in progress.  We are teaming the cleaning but doing it all in one day--------
**I also want to find a balance for keeping the house clean.  I used to spend one day during the weekend to clean...that gets to be too much when your husband is just a "picker upper" and not a "cleaner".  So maybe Mondays I'll clean up the whole kitchen, Tuesdays I'll do windows, etc etc.  I'm bound to find a balance somewhere. I've got quite a few "cleaning schedules" pinned on pinterest....

...nothing more has really gone up.  I did put some blocks up and changed out seasonal decor....
----Got the coat hooks up finally! That's a start!------
**I am committing to finally getting the house decorated....

not yet....
------Haven't done this yet-------
**I'd like to explore the Dave Ramsey envelope system again...
not committing to doing it, just exploring it a little more.

We went through and got rid of tons of stuff! It's not perfect, but it is better!
------Haven't done this yet-------
**The utility room WILL get organized in 2013...COMMITTED!

I've read a sleep book and I'm reading a baby food book right now...so nothing for pleasure since the first two.
----I have totally read 2 books so far!-----
**I'm committing to reading 1 book for pleasure this year.  
I haven't done this in awhile and I'd like to.  
So I'm committing to one, if I read more than that GREAT!   

I went to a Pinterest Party and tried a maple bacon doughnut (but only because it was brought to me at work--for the record...it wasn't that bad). So that is 3 things already that I can think of currently--it may be more.
-----I tried new make up in January.  I really like it!  Yoga is in my near future also I think!-------
**I'm committing to trying/doing/going to 5 different things.  Maybe it's going to a new store, going for a walk in a different park than normal, trying to crochet, attending an event we've never been to... WHO KNOWS! The possibilities are endless!
 I would commit to 12, but that is one a month and that 
is not currently reasonable for ME. 
 5 is a good number...

I still haven't found a good solution.  
---This is in place and is lame...not fond of it at all------
I've also got a new bill book idea that we will be starting in January.  With this record keeping I have decided it's best to start fresh by following the calendar....so this doesn't get changed up often =)


How are your 2013 commitments going???

Sunday, February 17, 2013

A Pinteresting evening

I went out and had some me time on Saturday night!
(Chad went out Friday night with friends)

This was, for the most part, my first night out since Parker (not that I had a lot of those pre-Parker).


Megan threw a Pinterest party and invited me to come on up!

You've never heard of a Pinterest party?  
Me either!

The rules were simple:
The host provides the main dish and the craft.
The guests bring a dessert, appetizer, or drink.
All must come from Pinterest.  

Sounds fun to me!

I didn't take any pictures of the food or the process....
I was taking everything in and working on some strategies to help myself get through it.

Everything that was brought looked really yummy 
(however I only tried a few things since I was a little anxious to be there)!
I opted to bring fruit salsa and cinnamon/sugar chips.

Megan had a fun and simple craft picked out!

This is my finished product.  
Her original pin can be found here (I assume that's the pin she used anyhow).
We used liquor bottles instead of wine bottles though.
Alysha found this fun pin to add to the fun!


Everyone (minus Jen) and their finished products!
(stole this picture from Megan's Facebook)

Thanks Megan for a great "first" night out!

(PS this totally counts as one of my "something new in 2013")

Saturday, December 29, 2012

{commit}

Goodbye 2012! Welcome 2013! 

We've got some resolutions....
But we've got some ideas too....

To me, a resolution doesn't need to just happen on January 1st.  If it's something you want to change or do or experience...do it NOW. 

Don't wait. 

COMMIT.

Last year I decided I was going to try and bring less work home...guess what?

IT HAPPENED.  

I didn't bring home piles of work each night/weekend.  I didn't spend countless hours at the school on the weekends.  Sure, maybe once a month (dang centers) I spent a few good hours there on a Sunday....but it wasn't EVERY weekend or EVERY night. 

**I'm committing to that again.  
I need to use my time at the school wisely and not always 
over talking to bugging Alysha :-)
I only have the evenings with Parker once I'm back at work so I want to make the most out of them.  Sure I might have a few things to bring home to work on here and there, but it won't be as much as it used to be.

**I also want to try and make cleaner meals...less boxed stuff.  
I'm committing to 1x a week for now.  I think that's reasonable.  
I can't commit to an all or nothing....that isn't reasonable.

**I also want to find a balance for keeping the house clean.  I used to spend one day during the weekend to clean...that gets to be too much when your husband is just a "picker upper" and not a "cleaner".  So maybe Mondays I'll clean up the whole kitchen, Tuesdays I'll do windows, etc etc.  I'm bound to find a balance somewhere. I've got quite a few "cleaning schedules" pinned on pinterest....

**I am committing to finally getting the house decorated....

**I'd like to explore the Dave Ramsey envelope system again...
not committing to doing it, just exploring it a little more.

**The utility room WILL get organized in 2013...COMMITTED!

**I'm committing to reading 1 book for pleasure this year.  I haven't done this in awhile and I'd like to.  
So I'm committing to one, if I read more than that GREAT!   

**I'm committing to trying/doing/going to 5 different things.  Maybe it's going to a new store, going for a walk in a different park than normal, trying to crochet, attending an event we've never been to... WHO KNOWS! The possibilities are endless!
 I would commit to 12, but that is one a month and that 
is not currently reasonable for ME. 
 5 is a good number...

I've also got a new bill book idea that we will be starting in January.  With this record keeping I have decided it's best to start fresh by following the calendar....so this doesn't get changed up often =)

That's a lot of commitments resolutions huh?  
Guess what though...they are reasonable.  
A reasonable commitment resolution is one that will probably happen 
and not die out within a few weeks or never happen at all. 

These are just mine...I'm not sure what Chad has in store.
(okay I do have an idea but they aren't mine to share)

I've shared mine...now.... What's your take? 
Do you have a reasonable commitment you will be working on?