it is time for new years resolutions. goals for the year. plans to be made. things to get done. last year i was extremely successful with my new years resolutions. i lost weight, we bought a house, we saved money. everything went just how i would of hoped. 2011 will be a little bit harder... buying a house is huge... i think that is why i didn't set as many goals as i wanted. losing weight is hard for anyone... i did that. saving money isn't easy either but we did that too. this year i want to make a big list of things that can be done with a little hard work. i don't want to put things on my list that are crazy and out of reach. i'm not going to make a goal of being a self made millionaire because the odds are stacked against me. things like buying corbin more disney movies and losing some more weight are do-able. so here it is.. just to name a few. everyday i think of more...
- paint the inside of my house. i HATE the color of my walls. they are drab and depressing. i hate them. i want my house to be colorful and stylish. right now it is so boring. i would be happier if every wall in my house was hot pink.
- buy at least 2 disney movies a month. i want corbin's movie collection to greatly increase over the next year. i want to get the collectors edition of some of the movies i watched when i was little. (if i can find a damn website that will tell me which ones are out of the mysterious vault.)
- lose another 20 pounds. that one is easy. i don't care what anyone says or thinks about hcg. it works. it works fast and seeing results that quickly is very motivating. i have gained like 8 pounds back but that is nothing compared to how huge i was before i started it.
- save more money and pay off credit cards. we don't have a ton of credit card debt like most people our age but what little we have i want gone.
- pay off my car. i only owe 4,000 on it so this one shouldn't be too hard. i am very good with money and i am very good with our budget so this is just something i need to factor in.
- take at least 1 night off a week with my family. when dusty works i am off. when i work dusty is off. not seeing my husband is really starting to bother me. we never see eachother for more than a couple hours. either in the morning before he goes to work or late at night when he comes home. it sucks. its not fair to corbin to not have us both at the same time. i am very lucky that we have been able to make it work with corbin always being with one of us but i think family all being together is very important for him, for me, for dusty.
- take corbin to do more fun stuff. hopefully me taking a little more time off with my family will mean we can do more with corbin. i want to take him to movies and the zoo and the aquarium and the park... whatever! i feel like we don't do enough of that kind of stuff. granted we both work our butts off so we can give him everything and more, but we all need to do things together as a family more often.
- be super mom. i know this is a ridiculous thing for a wife and a mother to have on her list but it is. i am not the type to get the family pictures done and scrap book and do arts and crafts and bake cookies. i want to be that. i want to make dinner and bake cookies and do scrapbooks. i want to be that mom. it is really hard for me because i do work so much. i know i need to make time. i need to find a way to be that super mom. if i only worked 2 or 3 days a week like i am sceduled it would be easier of course but having a mortgage and responsibilities takes away from any super-mom like things.
- keep reading a lot. one of the things on my list last year was to always be reading a book. well i can't even tell you how many books i read last year. if i had to guess i would say at least 30-40. i just want to make sure for 2011 that i keep with it and don't ever stop. i love reading. i am a very picky reader though and i have to be able to find a book that sucks me in right at the beginning or i lose interest.
- potty train corbin. this one speaks for itself.
- go on a trip. i want to go somewhere so bad. i want to take corbin somewhere. i want him to see the ocean. i want to see his little toes in the sand. i want to watch him run from the tide. i want to saturate him in sunblock for a day on the beach. i don't want to take corbin to just any beach though. this is where it gets tricky. i want to take corbin and dusty to cape hatteras. i want them to see the place i love so much. i want corbin to be on a clean beach that isn't covered in garbage or trash cans or hundreds of people. i want to rent a house for a week and go PLAY. flight benefits make every trip realistic. also... i want dusty and i to take an adults trip. i want to go to nyc. really bad. we were thinking may but now i am thinking october would be better. i want to go walk through central park in the fall and do christmas shopping on canal street. i want to go to a broadway show and stay in times square.
so those are just a few... i know i will think of more. i want to have an amazing year. the last 3 years have been the best years of my life. meeting dusty, getting pregnant, getting engaged, getting married, buying a house. becomming an adult. it has been amazing. we are married, we have the baby, we have the house... so now what? 2011 i want to be amazing.
i don't think i could make my marriage better. it is already so amazing. how do you improve on perfect? i will brag a little and say that i have the most amazing marriage anyone could ever dream of. i have an amazing person to share my life with. he makes me laugh constantly, we love the same things, we are both very driven and know what we want out of this life, he is an absolutely amazing father, he listens to me. he comforts me when i am upset. he sits up with me all hours of the night if i am having a freak anxiety attack. he helps around the house. he makes me feel special. i know that corbin and i are his top priority. we are a good team. i love our little 3 person family unit. i wouldn't change a thing. i just want to see him more. so that is one new years resolution that i will be accomplishing! make family time!
corbin is the other great love in my life. he is a little angel. he is such a good boy. of course as a mother i think he is going to be a little genius. he wants to know how things work. he is a smart little guy. he is very observant and i am thinking i should probably add watch my mouth to my list because he picks up on everything. he is getting more cuddley and he chases mom thru the house. he plays with dad all day and always sleeps at least 12 hours through the entire night. he is my little angel.
so really life is good and i think the only way it can get better is if we keep doing what we have been doing. work work work. it sucks of course but we have been able to give corbin everything and pay our bills early and still find time to laugh and enjoy eachother. i value every second i have with dusty because i feel like it has been ages since i just got to lay around the house in pjs and be lazy with him and corbo all day. 2011 will be different. i will make time for us to be a family and do fun things together. i am excited for the new year. i know it will be amazing because i know who i get to share it with.

it is time for new years resolutions. goals for the year. plans to be made. things to get done. last year i was extremely successful with my new years resolutions. i lost weight, we bought a house, we saved money. everything went just how i would of hoped. 2011 will be a little bit harder... buying a house is huge... i think that is why i didn't set as many goals as i wanted. losing weight is hard for anyone... i did that. saving money isn't easy either but we did that too. this year i want to make a big list of things that can be done with a little hard work. i don't want to put things on my list that are crazy and out of reach. i'm not going to make a goal of being a self made millionaire because the odds are stacked against me. things like buying corbin more disney movies and losing some more weight are do-able. so here it is.. just to name a few. everyday i think of more...
- paint the inside of my house. i HATE the color of my walls. they are drab and depressing. i hate them. i want my house to be colorful and stylish. right now it is so boring. i would be happier if every wall in my house was hot pink.
- buy at least 2 disney movies a month. i want corbin's movie collection to greatly increase over the next year. i want to get the collectors edition of some of the movies i watched when i was little. (if i can find a damn website that will tell me which ones are out of the mysterious vault.)
- lose another 20 pounds. that one is easy. i don't care what anyone says or thinks about hcg. it works. it works fast and seeing results that quickly is very motivating. i have gained like 8 pounds back but that is nothing compared to how huge i was before i started it.
- save more money and pay off credit cards. we don't have a ton of credit card debt like most people our age but what little we have i want gone.
- pay off my car. i only owe 4,000 on it so this one shouldn't be too hard. i am very good with money and i am very good with our budget so this is just something i need to factor in.
- take at least 1 night off a week with my family. when dusty works i am off. when i work dusty is off. not seeing my husband is really starting to bother me. we never see eachother for more than a couple hours. either in the morning before he goes to work or late at night when he comes home. it sucks. its not fair to corbin to not have us both at the same time. i am very lucky that we have been able to make it work with corbin always being with one of us but i think family all being together is very important for him, for me, for dusty.
- take corbin to do more fun stuff. hopefully me taking a little more time off with my family will mean we can do more with corbin. i want to take him to movies and the zoo and the aquarium and the park... whatever! i feel like we don't do enough of that kind of stuff. granted we both work our butts off so we can give him everything and more, but we all need to do things together as a family more often.
- be super mom. i know this is a ridiculous thing for a wife and a mother to have on her list but it is. i am not the type to get the family pictures done and scrap book and do arts and crafts and bake cookies. i want to be that. i want to make dinner and bake cookies and do scrapbooks. i want to be that mom. it is really hard for me because i do work so much. i know i need to make time. i need to find a way to be that super mom. if i only worked 2 or 3 days a week like i am sceduled it would be easier of course but having a mortgage and responsibilities takes away from any super-mom like things.
- keep reading a lot. one of the things on my list last year was to always be reading a book. well i can't even tell you how many books i read last year. if i had to guess i would say at least 30-40. i just want to make sure for 2011 that i keep with it and don't ever stop. i love reading. i am a very picky reader though and i have to be able to find a book that sucks me in right at the beginning or i lose interest.
- potty train corbin. this one speaks for itself.
- go on a trip. i want to go somewhere so bad. i want to take corbin somewhere. i want him to see the ocean. i want to see his little toes in the sand. i want to watch him run from the tide. i want to saturate him in sunblock for a day on the beach. i don't want to take corbin to just any beach though. this is where it gets tricky. i want to take corbin and dusty to cape hatteras. i want them to see the place i love so much. i want corbin to be on a clean beach that isn't covered in garbage or trash cans or hundreds of people. i want to rent a house for a week and go PLAY. flight benefits make every trip realistic. also... i want dusty and i to take an adults trip. i want to go to nyc. really bad. we were thinking may but now i am thinking october would be better. i want to go walk through central park in the fall and do christmas shopping on canal street. i want to go to a broadway show and stay in times square.
so those are just a few... i know i will think of more. i want to have an amazing year. the last 3 years have been the best years of my life. meeting dusty, getting pregnant, getting engaged, getting married, buying a house. becomming an adult. it has been amazing. we are married, we have the baby, we have the house... so now what? 2011 i want to be amazing.
i don't think i could make my marriage better. it is already so amazing. how do you improve on perfect? i will brag a little and say that i have the most amazing marriage anyone could ever dream of. i have an amazing person to share my life with. he makes me laugh constantly, we love the same things, we are both very driven and know what we want out of this life, he is an absolutely amazing father, he listens to me. he comforts me when i am upset. he sits up with me all hours of the night if i am having a freak anxiety attack. he helps around the house. he makes me feel special. i know that corbin and i are his top priority. we are a good team. i love our little 3 person family unit. i wouldn't change a thing. i just want to see him more. so that is one new years resolution that i will be accomplishing! make family time!
corbin is the other great love in my life. he is a little angel. he is such a good boy. of course as a mother i think he is going to be a little genius. he wants to know how things work. he is a smart little guy. he is very observant and i am thinking i should probably add watch my mouth to my list because he picks up on everything. he is getting more cuddley and he chases mom thru the house. he plays with dad all day and always sleeps at least 12 hours through the entire night. he is my little angel.
so really life is good and i think the only way it can get better is if we keep doing what we have been doing. work work work. it sucks of course but we have been able to give corbin everything and pay our bills early and still find time to laugh and enjoy eachother. i value every second i have with dusty because i feel like it has been ages since i just got to lay around the house in pjs and be lazy with him and corbo all day. 2011 will be different. i will make time for us to be a family and do fun things together. i am excited for the new year. i know it will be amazing because i know who i get to share it with.