I despise New Year's Resolutions.
Probably because everyone has the same- spend less, lose weight, make more money!
Then, a month later, "everyone" has lost their steam and all these resolutions have fallen by the way-side.
I truly hate them.
And because of that, Hubbie and I do not have resolutions.
We have goals.
He has some. I have some. And we have some.
Here are a few of ours and mine.
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Find a church- not only for ourselves, but for our children. Bubbie misses having a church.
Pay off Hubbie's school loan- estimated date of being completely and totally debt free- December 2010. Ok, I just GOTTA say it again. Lord willing, December 2010, we will mail our FINAL debt payment!
Spend wiser. The days that I take my grocery list to the Lord and pray before I go shopping, I truly do spend wiser. I need to make the Lord and prayer apart of our daily money spending.
Become more disciplined in my daily activities- daily prayer/Bible study and exercise.
Continue to pray about decisions that Hubbie and I are trying to make for the upcoming year. I am trying to not get too excited about things that "could be" but its hard to not get wrapped up in the excitement and to be able to look at changes wisely. If you would like, pray for us to have wisdom in whatever comes our way.
And, in all seriousness, not get pregnant. I know a lot of people that want to add children to their families or are having fertility issues and this may seem rude, but I really really really want to give my body more than a year to recover. Not to mention our pocket book!
Speaking of pocket books, to throw something fun in our year, we hope to make it to TN, the beach and to the mountains! Hopefully we will have the money and time to fund, at least, the first trip!
And the last goal that I want to share is to have more dates with my handsome Hubbie. My parents do a really good job of calling and offering to watch the boys so that we can have a date night. We appreciate it so very much. I tend to not make plans for dates and want to make more of an effort. Our relationship is worth it.
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A new year is so exciting. Bring it on!
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4 thoughtful comments:
Those are such great goals! I would love to be debt free as well but I know it won't be by the end of this year, maybe 2012, God willing.
I also think that more date nights are a great goal, one of ours too.
Great goals! Very exciting that you may be out of all debt by the end of this year! I can't imagine! Good luck meeting all of your goals!
Awesome goals! I call mine resolutions, but they are more goals. I have stuck w/ them the last 2 years.
And I have to HUG YOU and say thanks. I sounds like an idiot saying this, but I never thought to pray w/ my grocery list and ask God to bless that specific trip. I don't know why, but I didn't. So THANK YOU. I am excited to start doing that.
I completely understand about the not getting pregnant thing. I think you're familiar w/ our family "planning" choices, so if there is anything I can do, let me know. ;)
This is a really good list, Lu. I haven't made any goals for this year except to have this stinkin' baby :-) Oh yeah, and to (hopefully) give more and become debt free again.
And I'm with Sharon on the grocery thing - thanks so much for mentioning that, it has never even crossed my mind.
And pregnancy, let's not even go there! :-)
Love you!
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