February: Since baby Shea was born four years ago, I have not been well enough to keep on top of my house. Last year, after a decade of searching, I finally found a doctor who could give me a diagnosis and start me on a proper treatment plan. As a result, my house is a pit! I want to give all the rooms upstairs a top down cleaning and dejunking. One of the perks of being in construction is our own dumpster--and boy is it going to come in handy!
March: Since I will have had so much fun upstairs, I will give all the rooms downstairs a top down cleaning and dejunking too! Who knows, maybe I'll be so fast and efficient by then, maybe even hit the basement for a bonus star!
April: I have always loved participating in sports and great friendships have come through participation in those activities. This month, I will reunite with my high school girlfriends in Nashville, Tennessee to run the Country Music Half-Marathon as we celebrate the beginning of the next greatest decade of our lives. We may be over the hill, but we're going dancing in our running shoes!
May: The last time I actually paid a photographer to do a professional family photo, I had half as many kids. Pathetic, I know. The sad thing is that on at least two other occasions, I have gone out and purchased new, matching clothes so we could do it...still nothing. It is finally time to document those two additional children--I will get a family photo taken in some matchy matchy clothes by a professional photographer that can hopefully photoshop out my braces.
June: I love to run and do any kind of exercise...but my hubby hates it. He used to go run with me at the Smith Field House indoor track when we were dating, but has since informed me he will never run with me--talk about the ol' bait and switch. I've always thought it would be fun to get him to do one with me. So this month, we will do a race together--the Dirty Dash!
July: There's no doubt I spend plenty of time WITH my children, but it's not necessarily always quality time. This month, I'd like to focus on being more actively engaged with my children--and more patient with them. Since I will all be loading up the kiddies, without the hubby, and embarking on our yearly cross country trip in the wagon queen family truckster to spend a few weeks back on the farm, this will be extra challenging to say the least.
August: Every time I go on Pinterest, I see some of the cutest crocheted items on there. So, I decided I either need to quit following my crochet friends, or figure out how to do one of those crafty projects. My grandma tried really hard to teach me when I was a little girl, but I never quite got the knack for it. I'd like to learn to crochet something...even if it is just a scarf for a Barbie doll.
September: I have this phobia of erasing pictures off of my cameras--even after they have been downloaded on to my computer and backed up on an external hard drive. It just drives my husband insane that I never have memory available on any of my cameras--and now my phone:) That's why I was so excited when they came out with the 8 gig memory card...at a quarter of the memory of my first desktop computer...I thought I would never fill that sucker up. Wrong. They are always full! This month, I'd like to get all of my digital photos--that also happen to be spread among 2 computers and 2 cameras and 2 phones--organized by month on one computer and then back them up on an external hard drive and memory card. I'd like to get some of the highlights from the last couple of years printed. Then I'd like to take these, along with the other 20 boxes of photos that are busting a hole in the bottom of my dresser, and put them into the albums that have been sitting in my closet for the last five years.
October: I've kind of hit a stage in my life where nothing sounds good to eat and my kids won't eat anything even if I do make it. So, I just hate to cook anymore, especially when 5:00 rolls around and I don't even have a clue of what to prepare. This month, I want to prepare weekly menus with healthy, balanced meals. Then, create shopping lists from these menus, so I don't go quite so crazy at the grocery store, and prepare a nice meal each night. At least once each week, I want to try a completely new meal. That I probably found on Pinterest.
November: Since it is kind of that gratitudey time of year, I thought it would be fun to have a family night focused on gratitude and have each member of our family make his/her own gratitude journal. We can each list something we are grateful for each day. At each family night, we can each choose our favorite thing from the previous week to share. It would be fun to also write a thank you note from our family to someone we are all thankful for...who knows, maybe even throw in a little act of service for them.
December: 2012 Christmas cards never happened. 2013 Christmas cards were more like Christmas Eve cards. 2014 Christmas cards will go out during the first week of December-- and use that family picture I finally had taken this spring!
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