Well, I made lots of goals for this year and I'm happy to say I have finished most of those goals. Most years I am one of those people that makes New Years resolutions and breaks them within the first month :). I made sure to make reasonable goals this year and stick with them (most of them, that is :)). The goals I made were:
1) Read 4 books this year. The first one I read was The Help. I LOVED this book and the movie was amazing too! The other books are If I Should Die, Parenting with Love and Logic, and Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Baby (still reading this one).
2) Exercise at least 3 times a week. I have done surprisingly well with this goal :). Minus the last 2 weeks in my pregnancy, but for the most part I have really enjoyed taking Emma to the daycare at the gym and I read while exercising. Emma loves playing there as well.
3) Practice voice and piano 5 times a week. I didnt' do as well with this goal as I would have liked. I kind of went in spurts where I did really well for a while and then slacked off for a while. This will be an on-going goal :).
4) Learning how to garden. I planted roma tomatoes, grape tomatoes, green, red, and banana peppers. The peppers did really well and the grape tomatoes were absolutely giant! I couldn't contain them. Even with the wire holder, it was so huge that it took over the garden. Unfortunately the roma tomatoes did not do very well. They grew and grew, but once then turned red, they were mushy and gross :(. But the grape tomatoes were amazing so it made up for the others :).
Garden when I planted:
Garden at the end of the season:
I had someone tell me some pruning tips for tomatoes (after it was too late). I'll try those next year :). I had tons of fun learning how to start a garden and I loved enjoying the grape tomatoes every day.
5) Sewing and crafts. I wanted to do at least one project a month. I have loved finishing projects. I am usually the type to start many things, but not finish much :). But I have finished some projects that I am very happy about.
I sewed Emma a dress but it's still too big for her to wear. It turned out okay considering I made up the pattern in my head and just went for it. Patterns were so expensive and I didn't want to pay that much so I made it up :). She'll be able to wear it next spring probably.
This snowman quilt is something that has been on-going since April or May. I joined a quilting class at church and every month we learned a new step such as applique, connecting corners and borders. It has been a huge project, but it's fun to see the finished product.
I made Kristen a carseat cover too. Boose helped me pick out fabric and it turned out really cute!
One more project that has taken months and months to complete I will have to blog about it later at the end of the year. Pics and post to come!
I'm happy to say that it feels good to make goals, accomplish them and look forward to more goals to come. Now that Reese is coming, there will be more pressing things to spend my time on for a while (like trying to be a mother of 2!). But I am looking forward to it!
