Happy New Year friends!
I love the promise of a new year. To me it is a fresh start, a blank canvas ! I normally don't partake on the resolution bandwagon but there are several areas of my life that I need to improve on or needs a complete overhaul . Nothing like a brand new year to make these improvements !
I have been working out almost 5 days a week for the last two months! Once I start a routine I can normally stick with it. If I miss a days work out my mood is quickly turned sour. So it has been important to incorporate this into my daily routine. BUT my eating habits have gone down the hill. For some reason it is always one or the other for me. I am hoping since I have the working out routine down that my eating habits will follow suit. With the new year, I want to lower my carb and sugar intake and eat more clean. I need 20 lbs gone and gone asap!!
I want to stop yelling so much at the kids. I am quick to late my anxiety and stress level to hit the roof. Then the kids will do something like not listening or talking back, and I lose it. I am not proud of this. I never wanted to be that parent that screamed constantly at her kids. Lately it has gotten worse especially over Christmas break when our routines went out the door. I have made a very conscious effort to tell myself to just breathe. When I am in a bad mood it makes everything around me worse. When I wake up in the morning I have been telling myself today will be a good day. I am also quick to let other people's mood affect mine. If Nick comes home in a bad mood or sleeps a lot because he was up all night, I let this affect my mood. You would think after 10 years of marriage I would be use to it. Ha, not so much. For me, a little pep talk helps! Part of the yelling I think is being on my phone too much. I need to put it down and be more "present". I need to stay off the social media and stop comparing my life to every one else's.
I need to be a better wife. For the last 10 years of our marriage Nick has worked almost 2 full time jobs. So it was me who ran the house, made all the decisions, and pretty much did things MY way. Cue last January and Nick cut back at his 2nd job. Boy, was that a wake up call. I thought I hated him working all the time and doing things all the time by myself. Well, I didn't like my routine interrupted and changed either. A goal for the New Year is to be a better wife and include him in the ordinary and spend more time as a couple. A goal for the new year is to plan more date nights. I am going to schedule them just like I would anything else that way we have no excuse.
More family time and activities is also a goal for 2017. I want to do one day trip to little towns in Kentucky a month. We need to get out of the house, explore, and breathe in fresh air. When we are stuck inside at home we get irritable quickly.
What are everyone's goals for the New Year?
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