1) Get under pre-pregnancy weight (192...currently 212.8 fat, so that means I need to lose 20.8 lbs 22+ lbs, haven't stepped on the scale recently.)
2) Finish reading the bible (so I can say I have read every book in the Bible) (so I can walk closer to God)
3) Go to the zoo We took Matthew this summer and he LOVED the tigers.
4) Go to Boulder Ridge
2) Finish reading the bible
3) Go to the zoo We took Matthew this summer and he LOVED the tigers.
4) Go to Boulder Ridge
5) Spend a night with James, away from Matthew (Any volunteers to baby-sit?)
6) Read 10 books for fun. So far I have read 8: Divergent, Insurgent, Alligance, Eragon, Eldest, Inheritance, Brisingr, This Present Darkness, The Circle Maker, Every Bitter Thing is Sweet, Piercing the Darkness, all 12 Left Behind books, working on Crazy Love and about to start Jen Hatmaker's For the Love
7) Have a plan for when I will start nursing school back up. I started this Fall! Eeek.
8) Have all 3 credit cards paid off
9) Be 100% caught up on behind bills from my knee/life.
10)Put downpayment on a cruise for March 2016 with my family (including my sisters, mom, and possibly others! << We decided that this one was not practicle for us where we are in life right now. :-( Bummer! But we went to the aquarium together and this weekend we are going to spend the night in a hotel and do something fun together.
9) Be 100% caught up on behind bills from my knee/life.
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11) Pay off all of my medical bills from my Knee
12) Make a business plan for James...for his produce business.
13) Get Matthew into his own room.
14) Organize our basement
15) Get the shelves hung up in our bathrooms James finally did this, minus the one for downstairs but I am counting this as a win!
16) Get prices for re-doing our Kitchen and Living Room
17) Organize our office
18) Clean up the garage
19) Work on keeping the house clean on a regular basis (I now have an actual chore list for the week, sadly, I am a terrible housekeeper, and my husband is just messy)
20) Take Matthew to see a movie at the movie theater We went to see Inside Out, it was super cute!
21) Take Matthew swimming When we went to the hotel before the aquarium Matthew went swimming and was having a blast, a little unsure of it but enjoyed it just the same, we also went to Lake Michigan and he was definitely unsure of the waves!
22) Take a trip to Frankenmuth/Birch Run
23) Go camping at least one weekend.
24) Go to Catch Air with Matthew
25) Have a thousand dollars in an emergency fund.
26) Have a month's worth of money in an emergency fund
27) Get pregnant with a healthy sticky baby OR have an appointment set up with Kwak-Kim
28) Go on 12 date nights with James I have went on 2! This has went on the wayside, sadly. Still at only 2 I believe.
28) Go on 12 date nights with James I have went on 2! This has went on the wayside, sadly. Still at only 2 I believe.
30) Purchase set of essential oils
31) Make a prayer picture book for Matthew.
32) Attend a small group on a regular basis. I started to go to my women's small group on a regular weekly basis and then it ended for the summer. I am starting a prayer small group! I am a little anxious but excited about it. I failed at my own small group, but am very excited for small group to start up next month.
33) Blog at least 4x a month (that = 48 posts in 2015) So far I have posted 34 times but it is random and sporadic and not all are spread out to once a week.
34) Go out for a girl's night out.
35) Go to one of those canvas panting places.
36) Give up McDonald's for at least a month (though I would be okay with water, ice cream, and coffee from here ;-) haha)
37) Host 6 game nights with friends and/or family.
38) Have family photos taken this summer or fall.
39) Look more closely at foster care classes and their guidelines
40) Fence in our backyard
41) Have 5 bonfires 1 - James, Matthew and I had one bonfire with just the three of us. 2 - We went to a bonfire at Jenny's
42) Have a swing set or other play thing in the backyard for Matthew. Mom and my sisters went in on a swing set for Matthew, he loves it!
43) Run or walk a 5K
44) Order wedding photos (Finally!...we have been married for 5 years already...)
45) Go to a shooting range with James
46) Have the money for James to purchase the rifle he wants.
47) Tithe on a regular basis (feel like this should be closer to the top!)
48) Swimming lessons for Matthew
49) Build a cube organizer for Matthew's room
50) Organize all the closets (there are 4 in our house)
So far 9 are completed, and I have progress on 3 that seem obtainable.
A lot of these dreams that include finances will not be able to be realized this year, but that is okay. This is where we are financially, even if it is sucky. This week I was reminded how rich we truly are, even though we feel ridiculously broke all the time. Tithing really needs to happen, I keep not making it a priority and I think our lives show it right now. It is the one thing that God says test me on in the Bible. At this point I would be supper happy if we made 25 of these in 2015. Cannot wait to see what the rest of the year and 2016 bring!
So far 9 are completed, and I have progress on 3 that seem obtainable.
A lot of these dreams that include finances will not be able to be realized this year, but that is okay. This is where we are financially, even if it is sucky. This week I was reminded how rich we truly are, even though we feel ridiculously broke all the time. Tithing really needs to happen, I keep not making it a priority and I think our lives show it right now. It is the one thing that God says test me on in the Bible. At this point I would be supper happy if we made 25 of these in 2015. Cannot wait to see what the rest of the year and 2016 bring!
