Fantastic 2013

I read a lot about resolutions today.  It has been years since I made any myself, I much prefer setting goals or making plans or writing lists.  Today I stumbled upon this amazing comment on my newsfeed: "Instead of making resolutions consider making intentions for your new year. Resolution means something needs to be resolved. You are beautiful as you are you just intend to become more and to nurture yourself".  Can I get an amen?  ;)

So what's going to make 2013 so freaking fantastic?  I want to make goals and make plans.  And be people oriented.  I have a ton of things planned so I'll just share a few. 

My "job".  I don't even know what this is now, and that's the beauty of maternity leave.  I have a few ideas of what I would like it to be and things are in the works.  It will definitely be centered around my family and my home.  The location of our home is ideal for what I'm planning...and I still have a little time to finalize it.  I think it will make our whole clan happy!

Our little yellow house.  That isn't really yellow.  It needs to sell.  But we have great renters right now and the possibility that they will buy the house before their lease is up is pretty good.  If that doesn't pan out, we still need to sell before the end of 2013 as owning a rental property was never in our plans.  It is working for now but just working.  

I need to spend time with some of the amazing women I hang out with on Twitter - and their children.  Now before anyone thinks it's all weird, I have met them all in real life already and knew most of them before I sent my first tweet.  So it's cool.  Not weird.  I'm thinking about some glitter, some ziplining, some cross-country skiing, some SEO, some feminism chat, gagging at the kombucha on some people's counters, laughing about jalapeno-coconut-oil-douche...I think we need to spend more time together.  Hopefully their coolness will rub off on me just a bit. 

Handydan's family does annual trips to "the lake" - different lakes, different cabins each year.  There are 14 of us in total and it has yet to be a boring trip.  Read into that what you will.  This year, I want it to be kickass.  As in I'm bringing crafts for the kids to do, I will be doing the lake trips (if we don't have waterfront property) with the kids, I just want to give that time my 100%.  I will probably unplug for it too, for those of you who follow me on Twitter or Facebook. 

BABIES.  But not mine.  I have two darling children, Bear and Mini-D.  Don't need more, don't really want more.  BUT so far I know of 19 babies that will be born in 2013 and those are only those announced up to June, so I am expecting even more.  I am NOT expecting, hopefully others will be.  Bring on the babes 2013!

Our anniversary!  This year we celebrate TEN years of marriage.  Whoa, Nelly!  On one hand I want to celebrate with a huge, extravagant trip for two to somewhere hot and secluded.  But then my heart says that's a lot of money spent on just two of us when the FOUR of us could have a sensible, memory making vacation.  What to do, what to do...either way, we won't be going anywhere hot in the middle of summer so we have some time to plan.

New Years 2014.  Yes, I'm a planner.  And this year I decided that I want to throw a big shin-dig for NEXT New Years.  A family event, hosted here, with indoor and outdoor fun.  The special event planner in me is bubbling over with excitement and plans.  It's going to be a gooder and I only have 365 days to figure it all out!  :)

And...of course...the ever haunting number.  You know the one.  The one on the scale that never seems to make you happy.  Before I got pregnant with Mini-D, I was happier with the number on the scale.  I know what I did to get it there.  But then pregnancy hit (sounds like the flu) and those numbers went up.  Not as high as they did with Bear, but still.  The numbers need to come down and I have a bit of a plan to get started.  Also, all the holiday baking and partying is ending so the temptation to eat all the treats (because I'm breastfeeding and I NEED those extra 500+ calories...) is disappearing.  Fingers crossed that the extra weight will disappear as fast as those goodies did.  Sigh.  A girl can dream can't she?

For 2013 I would like things to stay relatively the same.  We don't have huge plans for anything and for once I would like to keep it that way.  When we make changes in our lives we tend to change EVERYTHING at once.  That was 2011/2012 for us and now for some calm after the storm.  Some peace.  Finding our groove.  2013 - the year of finding our groove.