Happy New Year!

Where did last year go? I cannot believe it is already 2011! December flew by so fast and I don't expect January to slow down either. There are so many things I want to do this year and maybe if I am lucky a couple of them will get accomplished. So here is my list...

1. I want to finally lost the weight. Yeah, I know this is nothing new from me and I did lose some weight last year, but this year I want to get off what I gained last month (we won't even go there) and get off the remaining 20 pounds or so that I have left. I am going to try to get off of my lazy ass and actually exercise. It is so easy to say this and much harder to actually get up and do it. I had a dream the other night that I was running and in the end I could run more then five miles. This would be great except for the fact that I HATE running!!!! In theory I would love to be a runner, but the reality is that I just don't get the "runners high" that runners talk about. I just get tired, sweaty and BORED!!! I will start slow with the Wii Fit and go from there. Maybe if I try for 2 pounds a month I can actually do this. Now of course this is something that I say EVERY year, but you never know, maybe this year it will catch on.

2. I want to be organized. I love a clean house as much as the next person, but I have trouble keeping one on a daily basis. It is just exhausting to constantly pick up after a two year old and my two year old seems to be more of a tornado then most. I am going to start off simple. I am going to make the beds everyday. If you know me well, you know that I am not a bed maker. In fact I have never seen the point in the practice. You are just going to mess it up again later on that night, but I have to admit that a made bed does make the room seem neater. I have made the beds each day so far this year (yes, I know it is only day 4).

3. I am going to cook more and eat out less. I am a sucker for food. Okay, that is putting it mildly. I LOVE FOOD and I LOVE TO EAT OUT!!! I love to cook too, but I love to let others do the dirty work. I want to expand my cooking repertoire this year. I feel like I cook the same things over and over again. I am going to go through my massive stack of cookbooks and photocopy the recipes that I want to try and put them in a binder so that they are handy. Maybe this way I will take the initiative and try them out. My husband will be so happy to eat something other then spaghetti (I do make a mean spaghetti though).

4. I want to get my house exactly how I want it or at least until I tire of it. I want to paint my great room and the kid's rooms. I am tired of white walls. I am so hopeful that we will be in this house for awhile that I am ready to make it my own. I haven't done this since we were at Fort Benning and then we ended up moving a year after we painted the ENTIRE house. Thankfully then we didn't have to repaint. We just paid a flat fee and they let us move without bothering. I would love to paint my family room, but it has two story ceilings and when I mentioned it to my husband he looked at me like I had lost my mind. I tend to agree with him, but it would look so much better with a color on the wall.

5. Potty train the two year old!!! I am getting tired of diapers, but now quite tired enough to make me really work on potty training. My goal is to have her out of diapers before September. I figure I will hit it hard this summer. It should be interesting. She is VERY strong willed and I am sure we will have battles. Hopefully she will want to be a big girl and wear the princess panties.

6. To add onto number 5... GET RID OF THE BINKY!!!! I am ready to get rid of the binky, but I am not sure that everyone else in the house is so ready. Every time that I have a no binky day either my son or husband seem to feel the need to stick one in her mouth if she asks. If "Biscuit" (my husbands pet name for our daughter) wants it she gets it. I think that this will backfire later in life for him, but I just sit back sometimes and laugh. She truly does have him wrapped around her little finger. We will see how much of a "Biscuit" she is when she is 16.

7. Read more! I have started this, with the addition of my Kindle (which I am pretty sure I could not live without anymore). I have always loved to read, but it is hard to look for good books in a store with kids in tow. I love having the ability to instantly download books and when I am done with one I can easily get another (this is especially nice for sequels). I have already finished two books since the 1st, so that is a good start.

I think that 2011 will be a wonderful year. It is already better then last year since we are starting out the year in Virginia instead of El Paso. It is so nice to know that this year will be filled with family and friends and that alone will make it a wonderful year!!