1. Have 2 healthy newborns 2. Survive the first year with them and DS, including adapting to DH's new work schedule 3. Decide if we're moving or not and do it if we are 4. Continue purging stuff around the house and completing house projects 5. If we're moving, sell our 2 rental properties and our current house
Post by awkwardpenguin on Dec 11, 2015 10:04:20 GMT -5
1. Rock my new work position and work with my boss on building our strategic plan, which includes increased responsibilities for me. 2. Get my ducks in a row for TTC #2, including my perinatal psychiatrist consult and IVF freeze all. 3. Continue to build my relationship with DD, and work on balancing my schedule to spend more time with her on weekdays. 4. Get back to a regular yoga practice.
1. Survive having a newborn 2. Determine whats up with my job. I will probably be looking for a new one as long as mentally I can handle it with the baby. If not continue to try to cope with the bad aspects of what I have. 3. Be able to take an extended maternity leave and not go broke and keep DD1 in daycare. 4. Improve my photography. Continue a picture a day. Im also joining 2 book clubs to work through creative exercises. Actually participate and put myself out there. And actually go through with taking my newborn photos and someone elses. Also maybe do a mothers day mini session with some friends. 5. Not kill my husband. I think this will be attainable after I am done being pregnant. Hopefully he survives the next 14 weeks. 6. Finish Konmaring my house.
Post by Velar Fricative on Dec 11, 2015 10:10:39 GMT -5
1. Continue to lose weight. 2. Read more (not having a bus commute anymore has been terrible for me, reading-wise). 3. Pay off one small student loan. 4. Start decorating the walls of our house (only a year after moving in...). 5. Stop GBCNing at work.
Big year for me: 1. Graduate in August with my doctorate. 2. Complete my superintendent certification in December. 3. Get a promotion. 4. Lose my stress weight gained this year (15 lbs to go...ugh!) 5. Sell old house. 6. Buy and renovate current house (renting now). 7. Complete Konmarie clean up on house. 8. Make final decision on hypothetical kid #3.
Lose the last 15 pounds Get pregnant Increase efund Move
so you decided to go for it and have another baby right away?
Pretty much. We aren't using protection but I haven't gotten my period back yet so I don't think I am ovulating? I won't start temping/charting until we move, hopefully my period will have returned by then. It took us over a year to conceive Stella so I want to get a head start. DH is convinced that it will only take 4 cycles this time. So currently we aren't trying but aren't preventing - which is really the same thing as trying IMO.
1. Get pregnant 2. Be more active 3. Make and stick to a budget to survive two in daycare 4. Declutter 5. Be better about grocery shopping/ keeping food around so we don't randomly decide to get pizza/Thai/etc as much
so you decided to go for it and have another baby right away?
Pretty much. We aren't using protection but I haven't gotten my period back yet so I don't think I am ovulating? I won't start temping/charting until we move, hopefully my period will have returned by then. It took us over a year to conceive Stella so I want to get a head start. DH is convinced that it will only take 4 cycles this time. So currently we aren't trying but aren't preventing - which is really the same thing as trying IMO.Â
Good luck! You never know, your H could be right. It took us 12 mos of charting/temping/accupuncture/fertility yoga (you name it I tried it other than medical intervention) to get pregnant the first time. We lost that baby around 5w, then got pregnant 2 months later with J. So we expected it would take some time again. But we got pregnant the first month we stopped preventing. I think sometimes once you have been pregnant your body knows what to do the next time around so it can happen faster.
Lose weight/become more healthy/ begin regular exercise Nail down next baby/ttc timeline Keep home projects within budget Keep saving for a new car Keep vacations within budget
Get pregnant Get some kind of promotion that allows me to continue working from home Exercise more regularly (or, like, at all) Build savings back up - we about wiped it out with moving and remodeling
1. Pay off the debt I accidentally accrued from the government on mat leave. 2. Get back on the wagon and finish purging my house of useless crap. 3. Have a fantastic trip to England. 4. Potty train DD.
1. Finish house repairs and move 2. Decide WHERE to move 3. @littlemoxie I'm stealing your Amazon box deal. 4. Maybe continue being soda-less? (That was my resolution for 2015, and I'm three weeks away from accomplishing it!)
Good luck! We have the same issue right now. Our house has been for sale for 2.5 months. Originally we planned to move to X city. Now we are having discussions about moving elsewhere and having DH do a commute for a year before finding a new job closer to where we want to move. It's such a hard decision though because we moved from there on purpose for many reasons and now might be going back...plus, long commutes make DH miserable to be around (although he's justifying it by saying it's no worse than what he's already doing...BUT THAT'S WHY WE PUT OUR HOUSE FOR SALE...NO MORE COMMUTE). Good luck! Hope you guys make the best decision for your family!
Post by Queen Mamadala on Dec 11, 2015 14:07:20 GMT -5
1. Drop 85ish lbs (again... *sigh*) 2. Read more books -- fiction (dystopian, fantasy, sci-fi) 3. Finish writing my book 4. Finish the fragrances I'm working on 5. Spend less
1) Have a baby and all that comes with that 2) Make the most of my 6 month ML 3) Go for long exercise walks 3-4 days in the spring/summer 3) Lose some pregnancy weight. I won't tie myself to a number. 4) Organize parts of my house like linen closets, craft closets, etc. 5) Be more mindful of my spending
-Pay off some debt and save more -Lose 10 lbs before getting pregnant again -Get pregnant, and stay pregnant this time :/ -Get DD into more activities -Before getting pregnant, donate blood as many times as possible. I used to be so good about going every 2 months but then I was black listed for a while with a needle stick at work/pregnancy, so I need to get back. Plus its a good excuse to eat a Little Debbie! -Go away for 4-5 days with DH for our 5th anniversary -Get another dog next summer? Maybe?
Find more ways for our Girl Scout troop to make a difference in our community and expand on things they are interested in. They are at such a great age and I want giving and helping to become second nature to them. As well as pushing themselves to try new things and further explore what they love.
Possibly get a bigger dining room table to up my dinner party efforts from once a quarter to once a month. Work up the nerve to invite people over for dinner parties beyong family and our 2 small social circles.
1. Spend more time with DH. Our relationship has taken a backseat to parenthood. 2. Find a non family babysitter. 3. Stay out of Target/off of Amazon 4. Eat more vegetables and fruit.
General goals like lose x amount of weight or spend less money never work so I'm trying more specific ones this year.
Oh sweet, I actually did most of my goals from last year, except I decided against becoming a manager.
For 2016, my goals are: Do at least 1 Crossfit competition Be more of an intuitive eater, with a particular focus on listening to my Food Anthropoligist and noting how different foods/meals make me feel physically Get rid of a bunch of stuff we don't use Buy new clothes for myself Be intimate with DH more often Continue paying ahead on the mortgage
so you decided to go for it and have another baby right away?
Pretty much. We aren't using protection but I haven't gotten my period back yet so I don't think I am ovulating? I won't start temping/charting until we move, hopefully my period will have returned by then. It took us over a year to conceive Stella so I want to get a head start. DH is convinced that it will only take 4 cycles this time. So currently we aren't trying but aren't preventing - which is really the same thing as trying IMO.
Good luck! I got pregnant with K before my period returned and I was nursing. X was 6.5 months old when she was conceived.
1. come out of this unemployment stint without depleting all of our savings. 2. buy a bigger house. 3. more day trips with and weekends trips with the kids this spring. 4. buy a bigger car. 5. contribute at least $2500 per kid to their 529 accounts.
Post by 5kcandlesinthewind on Dec 13, 2015 9:21:31 GMT -5
1. Create a budget and actually stick to it. We have ridiculous amounts of credit card debt right now and not enough savings, and we just keep falling further behind.
2. Leave work at work and be more present and engaged with my family. I was at a lecture the other day, and the line that jumped out at me (to the point where I actually teared up) was "the people we care about the most get the worst of us." And it's so true.
3. Be kind to myself. I realize this may sound somewhat counter intuitive to the last one, but I am really fucking hard on myself, and sometimes the person getting the least is me. So I want to be sure to recognize when I need to give myself a break.
4. Stop using social media as a crutch and actually engage with my friends/family in a meaningful way.
5. Lose some weight. But in light of goal #3, I'm not going to put a number on it, heh.
1. Continue going to the gym 3-4 times per week which will hopefully help me lose the 10 extra pounds I gained when I weaned my DS 1.5 years ago.
2. Find the perfect location to start building our dream house and sell our old house.
3. Do a second sweep of my house using the Konmarie Method and hopefully convince my DH to do his stuff too.
4. Do a good job with the 2 PTA committee's I'm chairing.
5. Keep my per diem job. My life feels very balanced right now so I would love to keep working 1 days a week for as long as possible. My malpractice is $$$ considering I am only there 1 day per week so I need to prove my value.
I have been thinking about this a lot and am finally ready to post:
I want to prioritize me for 2016. Not at the expense of my kids/family, but I have been pregnant/caring for babies since July 2013, I want to stop putting myself last.
- focus on work at work, not be worrying about the kids and how they are doing - make sure I make it to the gym 3x a week - make better healthy eating choices. - make time for myself every week.