Thursday, January 7, 2010

52 goals

For 52 weeks in no particular order:
1. Try to be an "Angel" to someone else more often
2. Maintain my 45 lb weight loss all year
3. Attend the Temple more often
4. Play more games with my kids
5. Learn to enjoy homework time more
6. Increase our savings by 30%
7. Do better at keeping a current journal
8. Learn to do something new
9. Be a better Visiting Teacher
10. Be a better friend
11. To go along with those be a better mom and wife
12. Learn to enjoy my scout calling a little more
13. Build up our food storage
14. Go on a small family vacation
15. Read my scriptures every day
16. Read the Sunday School and RS lesson before Sunday
17. Try better to not "Sweat the Small Stuff"
18. Laugh more
19. Continue helping Kylie and Tate with their reading skills and possibly even Kaden
20. Go on dates with my wonderful Hubby (dates, what are dates?)
21. Have another Girls Night Out with my sisters and maybe see if mom would join this time.
22. Enjoy a family reunion with ALL the Bernhardt's
23. Find something that Kylie really really likes to do.
24. Cheer the loudest for all the soccer, t-ball, and any other sport games my kids are in.
25. Always build my kids up and never put them down
26. Go on a Road Trip
27. Play outside on warm summer nights
28. Plant something new in my garden
29. Try to get to know more about my grandparents and their childhoods
30. Do better at magnifying my calling
31. Keep got up on my scrap booking (better get started)
32. Figure out how to inspire my girls to keep their rooms clean
33. Find another obsession for Kaden besides electronics
34. Study the Conference Ensign better
35. Attend the gym weekly
36. Really listen to my kids instead of half listening when I'm in the middle of doing something else
37. Read
38. Pay my sister back for all the babysitting she did for me last year
39. Serve others
40. Have friends over for fun, relaxing dinner party
41. Try to explain the scriptures better to my kids as we are reading them
42. Try to understand those scriptures and know how to apply it to my life now
43. Learn a new recipe
44. Act on thoughts and promptings instead of just having good intentions
45. Spend one on one time with each of my four wonderful kids
46. Try to forget about the 3% of the time my kids are bad and dwell on the 97% that they are good
47. Try a new food that I've never had before
48. Some how deal with the fact that I will soon have a daughter in Middle School, ahhhhhh
49. Let my kids help more in the kitchen even though it is much easier and quicker to do it by myself
50. More family game, movie nights
51. Take a hike and enjoy the Beauty that our Heavenly Father has given us.
52. Enjoy a nice hot bubble bath more often

4 comments:

Celia Marie (W.) B. said...

love this idea.

val said...

Wow-you are very ambitious. Thanks for inspiring me to raise my bar a little higher.

Saville Family said...

Holy-Moly! Good luck on your resolutions. My personal favorite is "enjoy a nice hot bubble bath more often"~oh, you can't go wrong with that!!

Heather said...

I love your list. I have some of the same goals,and now a few new ones too :) Although you can cross off #9... The lockers are very cool too!