A New Year

Happy New Year!

We rang in the new year here in BC by playing circle rummy with my parents and sister. G woke up at ten to midnight so she got lots of kisses when the clock struck twelve. B and I then went to bed and talked about our resolutions and now I'm going to write about mine here.

1. Lose 30lbs
I feel this is truly attainable if I keep at it. I need to do this so that I can get healthy, so that I can be more active with my daughter and so that I can feel better about myself.

2. No Potato Chips
This one will be hard for me and I wouldn't be surprised if I didn't make it all year. The reason I spepotatocify chips is because it's unrealistic to add nacho chips as that is sometimes an entire meal. In the past year I ate much less chips than I normally do, but there were definitely times when I craved them and stuffed my face with them. Not so this year, hopefully! B is joining me in this endeavor.

3. Get Closer to God
This is an important goal and one I strive for every year. I am hoping that by teaching G about God it will be teach me too. I need to make it a point to remember to pray with her every night, something that slips my mind all too often.

4. Get Well
With the exception of a few things (the joy of having a baby, seeing my family, a few little things), 2012 was not a good year for me. I am not well mentally or emotionally the way I should be and that can be attributed to a number of factors. First, having a baby wrecks you. I'm so happy to have G and I love her so much, but it has been really difficult to bounce back. I've never had such low self esteem and I find it very hard to deal with the little things that come my way each day. I break down far too quickly and I am constantly having to go to B for reassurance that I AM a good wife or a good mother or a good person. Being positive and happy go lucky again is something I really want and I'm going to work really hard at it this year.

5. Read More/Read More to Ginny
I did not read nearly enough in 2012. Usually I read somewhere in the neighbourhood of 50-80 books a year (and that's 90% novels). Reading is obviously something huge in my life; I love love love to read. And I'm going to brag here: I'm GOOD at reading. I can read all 9 Little House on the Prairie books in 1 day. Anyways, because of the pregnancy and then the birth of G my book intake severely declined. I do have the time to read with G around, but I find that when I'm not hanging out with her I want to just do something mindless like watch TV. So! I WILL read more!

6. Keep a Food Journal
In my quest to lose 30lbs I feel like this is important. Even if I don't keep it up all year, just having an idea of what kind of crap I'm eating will be a good thing to keep handy. B is also joining me in this one too.

7. Purge Stuff/Move
We don't know for absolutely 100% sure if we can move to Saskatoon, but it's a huge goal we would love to achieve. Whether we move or not though, I want to get rid of a lot of our junk. It's so hard to let go of stuff, but I'm determined to do it.

And those are my goal for this new year of 2013. I hope I can attain these, and I hope that you can attain whatever goals you've set for yourself. Happy New Year!