I'm a little late with this New Year's post, but I wanted to share my 12 New Year's resolutions with you for 2011. I do resolutions a little differently than others -- I do one for each month of the year. This is because I have New-Year's-Resolution-ADD, and I can't really stick to one resolution for the whole year. Depending on whether I like it or not, I can choose to stick with it for another month after that first one is over, or I can drop it like, well, a bad habit.
Last year, my New Year's resolutions included a month of bikram yoga, a month of vegetarianism, a month of taking the stairs everywhere (no elevators or escalators allowed), a month of trying a new recipe for dinner every week. That sort of thing. I have to say, I dropped the ball around June. See below for the ultrasound pic.
This year, with the kiddo on the way, our resolutions (read: priorities) took on a little different flavor.
Here they are, in order of appearance:
January: Make healthy choices in the dining hall / learn to XC ski. This is because now that we've moved back to a boarding school, I can choose to have Lucky Charms with every meal if I want. So I need to make better choices. Oh, and I made my husband spend a bundle of money on XC skis because I was whining about how I couldn't run anymore now that I was knocked up.
February: Meta-moments. This is a concept having to do with emotions -- it's kind of like an emotional time-out. I can get pretty heated over things, and my temper/reactions can be ugly, so I'm going to try meta-moments on for size in February, see if I can't develop my emotional well-being.
March: Obviously this has to be, get ready for the baby. Whatever that means.
April: Go on 1 date a week. Realistically, this will probably be a success if we can manage 1 date in the month of April with a newborn. But we'd like to give it a try. And it doesn't have to be a dinner out or a movie, necessarily, but it's about carving out some evening time to spend without laptops, tv, or anything easily distracting.
May: Pilates. I'd like to try to get back into it.
June: Fruits and vegetables at least once a day. There are three meals, I have to be able to get good things in during one of them.
August: Read a book.
September: 1 dinner at home during the week. Like I said, we eat at the dining hall way too often. We're going to try to live like normal people do and make a meal at home. This may require turning on the stove, or checking to see if the oven still works.
October: run a half marathon. 5 months post-baby, is it possible? We shall see.
November: organize financials. This includes setting up a college fund for junior, figuring out what the hell our retirement accounts are doing, reconfiguring a savings plan. Oh, and life insurance - we should probably figure that out too.
December: volunteering. This is a carryover from last year. I wasn't able to do too much of it this year, but I am proud to say I organized the freshman class's food drive before Winter Break. That counts for something.
Do you have resolutions? What are they?
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