2020! I like the sound of this year. I can’t believe we are at 2020! Lately the year 1975, the year I was born, sounds like a really long time ago. My goals this year are exactly the same as last year and the year before that for the past ten (maybe more) years. They are: study my scriptures each day, exercise daily and follow a budget. This year I am prepared! Grant and I spent half a day working on and updating our budget after I spent about three weeks tracking our expenses and looking over the past six months of our spending. It was an eye-opening experience finally confronting the spending creep that had been happening over the past few years. I plan on writing down my spending to keep up the budgeting. Hopefully, I’ll be better this year than I have been in the past.
As for my health goals, I have a little added incentive to succeed there as well! My sisters, mom, daughters and I are doing a challenge where we each make three attainable, measurable goals per day, six days a week for six weeks. Each of the three daily items we do we get a point and the person with the most points at the end of the six weeks wins. We each put $25 in a pool and the winner will get all the money. I fully plan on winning! My daily goals are: exercise 30 minutes/day, drink 64 oz of water/day, and track my calories (not limit, just track). The last one will be the hardest one for me. Mainly because most of what I eat is homemade and I don’t follow a lot of recipes that provide me with nutritional information.
I’ll end this post with a few quotes from the past little while:
The children really got into the spirit of giving this Christmas and so when we reminded them that we needed to read the Christmas story in Luke before we opened presents Anna said to Grant and me, “Just open my present before we read scriptures! It’s so amazing it’s like scriptures!” (It was a coupon book and yes, it was amazing!)
We were all in the car coming home from something and discussing the difference between extroverts and introverts and trying to figure out what each of us where. Lizi has been annoyed lately with the drama surrounding some of her friends and said, “I think I’m an extrovert but I have so many negative people in my life it makes me want to be an introvert!”
And this last conversation I overheard a couple of nights ago. William and Anna were hanging out in his room which is now across the hall from mine in Sam’s old room.
William: My New Years resolution is to be nicer to my sister
Anna: That is so sweet! (pause, and then a tone of skepticism) Which one? (meaning which of his two sisters?)
William (dryly): Lizi
Good thing he has a whole year to practice…
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