Resolutions.
What does that even mean?
HBear asked me that the other day while we were writing her list. I told her to go look it up in her dictionary 🙂 Gawd dictionaries are the BEST present EVER!!! All those times kids ask you stuff like what does definition mean?
To define something.
“what does define mean?”
To explain something.
“Like you are explaining what definition is?”
No
OMG!!
Answer: Go look it up in your dictionary and we can discuss it 🙂
WIN WIN
Anyways…
Let’s take a look at last year’s resolutions.
Yeah ok so I still have an extra 15lbs and I still forget to shut down my computer at night.
Apparently not only is my belly still not firm but either are my intentions! LOL
I don’t think it’s fair that Mommies don’t get holidays. Stay with me here, it all goes together in my head LOL
In fact… I don’t even get holiday pay!
It is going to be the year of ME!
Ok, realistically 2015 is going to be the year of… trying.
And yes I know that it’s not January 1.
So, now we are halfway through the month and I can be realistic about what I want to try to do this year.
I feel like it’s just too much pressure to put on one day. I mean really, how can I make a firm decision about anything when I have no idea what tomorrow will bring let alone 10 months from now?
Frankly, I don’t resolve to do anything but try 🙂 but I would like to make a few goals and here they are.
1. I got an email the other day with this video.
I really want to know what this Google+ thing is all about. In fact I really want to know what this whole blog thing is all about. I know that sounds a bit odd coming from a Blogger but I really don’t know what the hell I’m doing. I would like to work on that lol learn a bit more about making my blog a bit more feasible. I mean, I know that when I go looking for a recipe on my blog, it takes me like an hour! That’s not cool. That can’t be easy for my readers. I have even had a few people email me asking why I don’t advertise or make money on my blog?
2. Want to know something? I used to be a ferocious reader. I mean I devoured at least a book a day. And then I got pregnant. I still read but since that day I have only picked up 2 books that didn’t have baby or parenting in the title. This year I want to read… a book. Not a magazine, blog, or self help article. A book for the sake of reading a book.
I found a few book lists and I am going to start there. Maybe Matilda, Huffington Post, Goodreads have put out some wonderful lists of the best of the past year. I have also written a few down in the past year. Wild by Cheryl Strayed, Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty, 50 Shades of Grey (I haven’t even read THAT yet!!!!), The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown, Burned by Karen Marie Moning and my MIL has been talking about Ken Follett forever so anything written by him 🙂
I am not putting a number on it but this year I want to remember what it feels like to be completely immersed in a story and when you are done reading about it you hug it tight just to keep the characters imprinted in your heart forever.
So I have started. By saving money on my weekly grocery budget I have been able to put a bit away. I started backwards so I put away $52 and then $51 and then $50! 3 weeks $153!!!! A great start I think 🙂
6. Stop gossiping. I have found that now that I don’t work I have nothing to talk about except my children and I fall into the meaningless chit chat of gossip. I want to talk about things. What things? I don’t know lol but I am going to make a more conscience effort to stop talking about other people and start talking about things. My sister said that she tends to ask people about themselves and forgets to talk about herself lol she actually makes talking points for herself. I think this is a fabulous idea! I think it would be beneficial to do this when I go places I know lead to me gossiping rather than discussing… I don’t know… world issues or something LOL
7. Although my house is clean and my life is ridiculously well organized I have a dirty little secret. My virtual life is a MESS! I so badly need to clean up my Pinterest… my 2 terabyte hard drives that are FULL of music and pictures from the past 6 years and OMG my emails!!! I subscribe to lots of blogs. I can get between 200-500 emails a day. Most are a quick delete but the good ones I leave to read “later”.
So now I have 22 pages full in my inbox of stuff I need to read, pin or get back to.
I must clean it up. A GF of mine said that an organized and clean space allows your brain to focus on other things. If your life is a mess, your thoughts and abilities probably are too. I agree with this and feel that I need to clean up this aspect of my life before it gets out of control and the computer starts looking like a debt collector 🙂
8. Do at least 3 things on my bucket list this year. So far my bucket list has 45 things listed on it. I have checked off 5. At this pace I will never get them done and I know in the future I will just be adding more lol. I need to get on this.
9. I mentioned this in my New Year’s Post but I really want to do more family game nights. I know SBean isn’t old enough to really get involved so maybe we can do a family movie/Planet Earth night every once in a while. The point is, we do a lot of fun family things during the day and night is just a routine. Dinner, baths, books, guitar, 60 Minute Kids Club, write in our calendars and bed. It would be nice to shake it up every once in a while with a fun family activity.
10. Date night. I have heard rumblings from other women about this thing they call…. date night????? Hmmmmm it sounds like it could be fun. Seriously. We don’t go out. Ever.
OK we do the occasional birthday dinner, anniversary night but for the most part we don’t go out. We live with my Dad so we NEVER ask him to watch the girls. He is with them all the time so I HATE asking him to do that. But they are getting older. There is no reason why we shouldn’t take advantage of their time in bed 🙂 LOL We could easily take a walk on the beach after the kids are down. We could go for a drink and it wouldn’t hassle Dad at all. The kids are down and he could do his work in the office, or watch the game on TV. It is an option and we can’t make excuses any more. We need to go out every once in a while. Just the 2 of us. We can do it! LOL
Place a greased circle of parchment on the bottom of 3 8-inch pans.
Combine the butter and cocoa and cook in the microwave until melted.
Slowly add the coffee and milk, whisking to combine. Add the sugars, eggs, and vanilla and whisk until smooth.
Combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
Divide evenly between 3 prepared pans. Bake for 45 minutes or until toothpick comes out mostly clean.
Cool before removing from pans (you might want to loosen from the edges with a sharp knife). Cool completely before frosting.
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| This is a horrible blurry picture but you get the picture 🙂 |
