Besides having a baby it's going to be a rest year for the most part.
We were going to go to Mexico for a 7-9 day trip but I think we'll wait until the kids are little older. Haven't totally decided on that but I am pushing to wait. Nothing really appeals to me about traveling either pregnant with a 3 year old or with a 4 month old and 3 year old. NO THANKS!!!!
DH will be buying a new car this spring, so I guess that's kind of big? His car is only 2 years old but we want another bigger vehicle. His car is paid off so we've been taking money monthly and setting it aside for this new car.
I'll be off of work for 6 months so that will be nice!
I'm hoping its a busy year. I graduate in late January and am hoping for a job in my new field asap. I'd like to move/build a house, but we have no eminent plans for that. The plan is to push hard starting in January and see where we are at in June. I'm hoping for at least 2 cross continent trips to visit the grandparents, as well.
My kid is 15 months now. He BETTER sttn starting in 2016.
We do plan to go to Hawaii in April, but that should be a fairly relaxing trip. We're going with some friends, who should be able to watch our kid a bit, so maybe even a dinner alone?
I think it's going to be a big year. We have some pretty ambitious financial goals to get us back on track - 2015 was hugely expensive between surgery for me, nanny expenses, finishing our basement, taking my parents on a vacation, moving, losing a bunch of stuff in a basement flood earlier in the year...we feel a little poor right now!
I'm also hoping and praying that I get pregnant soon, so hopefully 2016 will bring a new baby.
Finally, I didn't get the internal job that I recently interviewed for, but my boss dropped some major hints that there would be leadership opportunities posted soon that they think I'm better suited for. We lost basically all of our management team in 2015, so they've been working on restructuring, so I'm hopeful that this means a promotion next year!
It's shaping up to be a big year: building a new house, and me most likely going back to work, which means DS will be going to daycare/preschool. Looking for a job is probably a good few months or so off, but I'm already having all the feelings about it.
I had a baby, started a big promotion days after returning from Mat leave and my dad passed and I've been executor for the estate (which is sad and a lot of work but low drama)
I would like to get a little landscaping done and either get our bathroom redone this year or next, but that's it. Having a toddler should be ample excitement.
Rest, hopefully. This year had ups (2 promotions for DH, changes in volunteer work) and downs (FIL's incurable cancer, grandma's Alzheimer's/hospice) but we, in our household, haven't made any huge changes. I'm hoping that the doctors can slow the progression of FIL's cancer and that grandma will be able to pass quickly*, but otherwise I don't anticipate any big changes. We hope to job search and relocate in 2018 and we are done having babies so we are planning to lay low for a bit.
*I hope that doesn't sound terrible but we know she will never get better and it is a huge strain on grandpa. As much as he will be sad to see her go, it is harder on him to live with the way things are now.
A big restful year? Hopefully a nice long family vacation, getting ourselves onto a good schedule in January (now that I SAH), and enjoying life. And, ahem, DS starts preschool in September! Maybe my house will finally be clean.
Just had a big work contract come in and I am gearing up to move my business/career forward a lot next year. DH has a huge year professionally coming up.
DS3 is STTN! I'm registered for a half marathon in May. We're doing a 4 day kids free trip in March.
Post by purplecow0206 on Dec 22, 2015 14:03:36 GMT -5
I really want a big year. My hope is that my H gets a new job in the beginning of the year (prospects are good, he's in talks with a company that definitely wants to hire him, they just need the right role for him), I follow suit shortly afterwards, ideally a new role at my current organization so I don't lose my benefits, and we can start the TTC #2 discussion.
Post by undecidedowl on Dec 22, 2015 14:09:41 GMT -5
I really want to say rest year. I think it will be more like a catch up year though. Now that DS2 is one, I'm not pumping anymore, and the baby stuff is done (other than sttn, of course lol) I feel like there is a lot of catching up I need to do both at work and home. We are also considering buying a new house so we'll see about the rest thing.
A rest year for us personally. We are done having babies, we are settled into our house, nothing major going on.
Work wise it's a big year - job situations for both DH and me are changing. It should be a good thing. I've kind of been in a funk lately and I am attributing it to my very much in flux work situation and that aspect of it really sucks.
Big year. Cruise in January. Baby in June, then I'll be off work for the rest of the year. DD starts kindergarten in September. Hoping to get a few mini projects done around the house too.
Big year, in that we're hoping to buy a home and move in the spring. And in the fall dd1 will start kindergarten and dd2 will start preschool. There's a good chance I'll start looking for a job around that time. And personally, I want to work on getting myself back in shape.