New Year’s Resolutions: 2013
| January 1, 2013 | Posted by Madeline @ Food, Fitness, and Family under Goals |
Happy New Year!! We spent our evening hanging out at home with our friend Mike. Now that we have a kiddo our nights are a little less crazy and a little more homebody but we had a great night complete with a surf and turf feast and some champagne bubbly. After looking back at 2012 yesterday, I am super ready to jump into 2013 feet first with some new resolutions 
Health
- Clean up my eats – this will probably forever be on my resolution list
- Limit to one Diet Coke a day - giving up soda has been an epic fail in the past so limiting it might be a good baby step
- Run at least 5 races - Hate paying registration fees so logging at least 5 organized races would be an accomplishment
- Log 700-ish miles – this is more than I logged this year so go big or go home
- Do an unassisted forearm stand – can currently kick up on the wall but not off
- Do an unassisted pull-up – dream big?
- Do yoga 1-2 times a week minimum - in the class setting.
Relationship
- More date nights - once a month might be pushing it but we might just have negotiated a date swap with a friend of ours so stay tuned
- Make a better point of showing appreciation to Chris - After being married for awhile it’s easy to take things for granted.
- Buy Chris a present just because – I loved this one from last year so I’m bringing it back
Motherhood
- Take Em for a walk 3-4 times a week
- Enroll Em into a class of some sort
- De-clutter our baby gear
Personal
- Be more consistent with regular church mass and holy days
- Organize our family photos
- Walk the dogs 4-5 days a week
- Read 10 books
- Try 1 new recipe a month
- Remember more family birthdays and actually send cards – I tend to remember the birthday but forget the card … I blame mommy brain
Any-who … I tend to add things to my list throughout the year and you never know what the year will bring that throws a kink in the plans.
What’s one of your New Year’s Resolutions?
Great goals! I like how you organized them all in different categories within your life. One of my resolutions is to clean out all of our clutter in various closets and get a little more organized.
Ashley @ My Food N Fitness Diaries recently posted..2013: A Year of New Beginnings
That is on our “to do” list too … declutter and SELL haha.
I’m stealing some of these for myself (specifically buying Travis a present!)
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It’s SO much fun haha
Great ideas!
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I love making new years goals! I love how you stated to not take Chris for granted, I feel the same way about my Jeff. Happy New Year!
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I’m learning that how I show appreciation isn’t how he recognizes it. Learning to speak his language a bit more
Awesome list! And cleaner eating will always be on mine, even if I don’t have resolutions this year haha. I bought P a random just because gift yesterday and it felt AWESOME. Also, I have 100% confidence that you will achieve your unassisted forearm stand goal this year, and if you need help, let me know
Thanks love I will! For now it’s just building shoulder strength. I can kick up on the wall solo but not off the wall yet. With time!
Love your goals. Man, an unassisted forearm stand and pull-up are on my list. Yes, let’s dream big.
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Accountability partners?
Best goal by far = cleaning up your eating!!! Eating healthy = happier mood = sexier date nights = more energized work outs = more focused to read 10 books… You see, they’re ALL connected!
Happy New Year!
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Trust me, the soda drinking gets easier. The first 2 weeks will HURT like crazy, however after that it’s smooth sailing. I’ve been going on 2 years now, trying to make it through high school without 1 sip!
You can do it! I look forward to reading about your progress. Happy New Year!
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i can’t remember if it was this post or another but I could have sworn you mentioned something about Em in a class or like a playgroup or something. or maybe I’m crazy..lol. Have you looked into MOPS? I’ve belonged to one in every state we’ve been too. Its one of the first things I look for when we get to a new place
mops.org
there’s got to be one in your area
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We’ve done little things here/there but nothing concrete. I’ve heard of MOPS but I guess I didn’t think it started for one year olds?
MOPS starts whenever you have a baby. I usually have them with me at the meetings till a couple months old but they have the moppets classes from 0-5 I believe. I’ve been going since my first one and haven’t stopped!
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Thanks SO much for the info! I found a MOPS in my town and am going to start when I get back from AZ
I’m stealing a few goals, too! Including the mass and holy day attendance.
Good luck with running the races! I signed up for Jill Conyer’s #13in2013 to get myself running more races this year. I’m already signed up for one race in January, February, and March. Just 10 more to go.
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That’s a seriously impressing goal! Good luck!
I want to start sending out more cards, too! I feel like they’ve definitely become less popular ever since social media. But I love getting them, so I’m sure other people do too!
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[...] We are just about one month into 2013 so I figure now is a great time to take stock of our New Year’s resolutions and see how were are doing! I just want to focus on some of my healthy living goals today because [...]