2013 Goals

I love this time of year!  I like the idea of a fresh, new start and the evaluations and thought processes that come with making new and reviewing old resolutions.


2013 Goals
1.  Run a half marathon (#7!) and eat more fruits and vegetables
2.  Make daily prayers more meaningful - particularly in parenting matters
3.  Format and print one blog book and make a DVD of one year of family videos
4.  Stick to our budget and the financial goals we've set for this year
5.  Continue emergency planning (rotate food in 72 hour kits, figure out water storage, 3 months snacks/fruits/vegetables/extras, emergency fund)

Our 2013 family goal is to do service together as a family at least once a month.


2012 Goals -  Follow Up
1.  Form a habit of having family prayer before we put the kids to bed  ... CHECK!
2.  Focus on the relationships with the people in my home (i.e., be nicer to the ones I love most) ... I liked this goal, but it's hard to really say how well I did.  You'd have to ask them.  :)  But really, this one was hard to measure and I often forgot I had made this goal.  Oops.
3.  Finish reading the Book of Mormon and earn my YW "Honor Bee"award  ... CHECK!
4.  Continue working on a realistic/useful 3 month food storage for our family  ... CHECK!  I finally came up with a plan that I am happy with and feel at peace about.  This year we slowly started getting a realistic 3 month food storage supply from the company, "Daily Bread".  It is expensive, but has a 25+ year storage life and all you do is add water and they are complete meals.  It's freeze dried products, and it actually tastes good!  All the rotating and meal planning was stressing me out!  We started out paying for it over two years with payments every other month, but we just decided to pay the remaining balance off this month, so we will be good to go and have all our boxes of food storage!  Of course there will always be more to do with emergency planning, but this was a good step in the right direction, and I'm so happy that I just have the 3 months of meals and don't have to think about that anymore!    
5.  Catch up on my own family's history - organize pictures, edit home videos & make another blog book  WORK IN PROGRESS and I think it always will be.  The most important thing is that I'm keeping the blog up to date and writing in the kid's journals.  The organizing, editing, and printing can wait for now.  

Previous family goals:  2012 - family prayers, and 2011 - regular family home evening.  Brandon's not a big fan of New Year's Resolutions - he has the attitude that you should just change rather than having to set a goal about it - but he's good to goes along with the family goal and supports me in my personal ones too.