Goals of 2013

Usually for my annual goal posting, I post the goals from the previous year, marking the ones I achieved in bold, then posting my new goals for the new year.  Well, I may have accidentally saved my new goals over the old goals and therefore, cannot paste the old ones.  But I can list a few of the major goals that I know were on there that were achieved!

Student Teach

Graduate from College!

Get Pregnant

 Get back patio concrete poured

Read at least 5 books not required by school or book club (I think I finished 9)

Teach Wyatt to Read (He's getting better every day!)

Those are just a few of the goals that were knocked off of my goals list.  There were 50 total, and 23 of them were achieved!  I know some people look at these goal lists as silly, but I believe that looking back at it every once in a while reminds me of what I want to accomplish during the year. Since I have been doing it for about 5 years now, I really notice a difference between the years when I look at it at least once a month, and when I only look a couple times a year.  The reminders help!  So without further adieu...

 

GOALS FOR 2013

1.     Have a healthy baby after 36 weeks

2.     Get a teaching job!

3.     Get certified.

4.     Go on a date every time Ben is home

5.     Read 2 classic books with the boys (such as Stuart Little, Trumpet of the Swan)

6.     Get air conditioning

7.     Finish the basement

8.     Take a vacation that’s not to visit family

9.     Make the denim family blanket

10. Get Book Club started again

11. Get new couches for basement

12. Make 2 extra house payments

13. Start paying back student loans

14. Volunteer at Adam’s school

15. Get large family photo printed on canvas

16. Pour concrete in back corner

17. Dress up for Halloween with the boys

18. Pay off Ben’s New Truck

19. Go to Florida for Christmas

20. Go camping at Redfish

21. Get a new dining set

22. Host Annual Christmas party

23. Can peaches, spaghetti sauce, peach jam, peach pie filling, applesauce, apple pie filing, pears, corn (freeze), salsa, zucchini (freeze)

24. Grow a garden in the back yard.

25. Get a new camera

26. Build up my stockpile

27. Make a new quilt for each of the boys, including Ben

28. Repair old blankets

29. Lose baby weight and then some!

30. Set up a budget and save $300/month

31. Get Wyatt a new bike

32. Bake birthday cakes for all of the boys

33. Get old couches cleaned

34. Paint master bedroom

35. Get curtains for Master bedroom

36. Teach Wyatt to read! (he’s so close!)

37. Build my home library

38. Build my classroom library

39. Get Adam in Cub Scouts

40. Visit Stephanie in DC and see the sites!

41. Put Adam in Baseball and Wyatt in Soccer

42. Get a new guest bed (make own headboard if possible!)

43. Read 5 books.

44. Don’t chop off hair after baby is born.

45. Put together family picture wall for basement

46. Plant trees in the back yard

47. Get boys a trampoline

48. Learn to sew a dress

49. Make 2 baby blankets for new baby

50. Keep our family safe, happy, and healthy!

Have a good year!