12 Goals for the New Year – Week 34 of 52

I came up with 12 goals I’d like to accomplish this year with the hopes of being able to cross one off my list per month to make them more manageable. I thought a great way to hold myself accountable to the things I want to accomplish this year would be to do a weekly update.

After all, we all need a little help staying motivated sometimes. Here’s how I am doing so far:

1. Clean, de-clutter and organize my entire home in 30 days or less. – So far this year I have cleaned my closet, organized my kitchen, decluttered my bathroom, organized my office, gutted the garage, and tackled the laundry room.  Done!

2. Fit into the same jeans I wore 8 years ago when we moved into our house.  I am giving myself until the end of September to fit into those stupid jeans. Then, if they still don’t fit, I’m throwing in the towel. Because HELLO…. the holidays are right around the corner!

3. Travel.   So far this year I have been to Boston, London, Paris, Portland, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia and Virginia and Victoria B.C. 

4. Send my daughter to college without having a nervous breakdown thus spending a week in bed sobbing.  Done! I am happy to report she is having fun! The HH keeps pestering me everyday though wanting to know what she’s up to. Who knew he would be the one having the daily melt down?

5. Get 3 new teeth. – Ahhh… Another week, another tip to the dentist. This time around I had FIVE CAVITIES filled. Seriously, at what point do people give up on their crappy British teeth and just knock ’em all out? This is ridiculous people.  Oh and if you look closely, you’ll notice I have barely have any eyebrows.

Awesome. I guess that’s the next thing to go.

6. Pay off my car. Done!

7. Finish this primitive folk art rug I started 4 years ago. Finished! It took me 6 months but I’m done.

8. Do something together as a family ever Sunday. We cleaned out the attic. Well, actually Monkey Boy did and we supervised. Ha! 😉 The HH and I are going to be so screwed when he’s gone next year. No.More.Free.Labor.

9.  Secret Plan #1 – Done! – I’ll tell you about it at the end August. 

10. Secret Plan #2 Making progress.

11. Secret Plan #3

12. Convince the HH we should buy a Salt Box Style House in Colonial Williamsburg. Done! We didn’t buy a house in Colonial Williamsburg, but I did find us a house on the east coast and we LOVE it. This is a vacation home for us and let me tell you Bob, I can’t wait to start fixing up the place. Starting with the bathroom cabinets {which are a little on the short side}. 😉

13. Spend at least 1 hour a day working in my garden. 

This past week I worked like crazy and was able to get our fall garden planted at the new place. Now all I have to do is pray for rain. 😉

So there you have it, my goals for the new year.

How about YOU? How are your 2014 goals coming along?

~Mavis

P.S. YES, I know I wrote down 13 goals. I’m fairly certain I won’t be able to attain one of them. {gee, I wonder which one?}  But I wanted to add it in there anyway because I believe in miracles.