Personal Goals
- Lose baby weight
- Take a walk with Brady in his stroller daily
- Be a better wife, show Kurt how much I appreciate him
- Go on a vacation with Kurt and Brady
- Continue trying new recipes and learning to make things from scratch
- Get all paperwork filed and organized
- Use my crock pot more
- Find a live-in caregiver for my mom
- Force myself to clean and organize for 15 minutes every day
- Pay off Hospital Bills by April
- Start making homemade baby food
- Continue breastfeeding Brady until he is one year
- Continue taking monthly shots with Brady next to his Teddy bear
- Get more involved with play groups /mommy groups
- Get Brady to sleep 12 hours a night
Home Sweet Home
- Finish renovating the office/guestroom
- Lay Bamboo Floors
- Add baseboards
- Build a desk
- Put together the daybed
- Buy and Install a closet organizer
- Decorate
- Spruce up our curb appeal
- New light fixtures, street number, mailbox, door knob, doorbell
- Paint the whole exterior
- Landscaping- get rid of weeds, plant a willow tree, and put new flowers in the flower beds
- Eventually extend the front patio cover to make a front porch the full length of the house
- Backyard
- Start growing veggies and herbs and fruit trees
- Renovate back patio
- Plant Bamboo along perimeter of yard
- Plant tropical flowers and landscape
- Add a waterfall with a koi pond
- Update the Kitchen
- Finish painting the kitchen
- Replace kitchen lighting
- Put knobs and drawer pulls on kitchen cabinets and drawers
- Refinish cabinets
- Replace Counter tops
- Replace backsplash
- Replace oven hood
- Update the dining room built-in cabinets
- Paint them white
- Replace wood shelves with glass shelves
- Add cabinet lights
- Add cabinet knobs and drawer pulls
- Put bead board against the back wall
- Hallway
- Replace all the hallway doors with new ones
- Paint new doors
- Install new door knobs
- Create Photo Gallery
- Master Bedroom
- Finish trim on the new window
- Buy new bedroom furniture
- Put pictures up on our walls in the living room, and master bedroom
- Arch the doorways leading to the kitchen and hallway
- Garage
- Buy a pantry for grocery items we stockpile when we find good deals
- Get rid of all the junk!
- Organize everything
Working from Home
I am in the process of transforming myself from a workaholic working 6 days a week to a work at home mom. I already had a side business doing graphic and web design. And my husband has a videography business. My goal is to expand these businesses and try a few other things. I want to try making money from home doing a variety of things.
- Just Imagine Designs- My Graphic and Web Design business
- Get more web design clients paying a monthly fee
- Advertise New Chapter Productions- Kurt's Wedding and Event Videography Business
- Designing Dreams- wedding planner business
- Create a website
- Establish a price list
- Make business cards
- Do a bridal show
- Start and regularly update blogs
- Personal Blog
- Budget Bride Blog: A blog about how to save money on your dream wedding
- Deal-icious Deals: A blog that shares money saving tips
- Start My Digital Mementos- a service that scans and digitizes photos and old negatives
- Finish making website
- Advertise my service
- Educate Myself
- Expand my web design and blog design knowledge
- Expand my SEO knowledge (search engine optimization)
Updates on My Goals for This Year
As I make my way through the year, I'll share the progress I'm making on these little goals of mine.
