2011 resolutions

Weight loss - In general I want to eat healthier and exercise for the sake of feeling good and taking care of my body, but I also want to focus on weight loss this year as well.  I want to lose 50 lbs by the end of the year.

Money management - I am so sick of being broke. John and I have recently restructured the way we do our finances putting me in charge of our household spending (groceries, gas, entertainment and basically anything that isn't a debt pmt, utility bill or rent).  So my goal is to keep our spending on a budget and somehow find extra money to start paying off our debts.

Move - After saying I want to try to get out of debt it seems crazy to turn around and make my next goal about spending more money on housing, but this is a priority for me this year.  In fact I fully intend to be in a bigger place by Spring.

De-frump - I get up at 3am to go to work where there is a very relaxed dress code, then I come home and I'm with my kids the rest of the day.  This means I wear jeans and John's old sweatshirts every day, and my hair is most often tied up in a messy bun.  However when I do get dressed up, even just putting on a cute shirt, blow drying my hair and putting on some eyeliner, I feel 1000x better about myself.  Most mornings I don't think it's worth the hassle, who am I dressing up for anyway?  My co workers? My kids?  I never even see John during daylight hours... I am going to start dressing up for ME.

Reading - both for myself and to the boys.  I love to read and I don't get to do as much as I'd like.  I want to do more.  Also, I want to read more to the boys.  We usually do read a story at night, but I'd like to start reading bigger books to them, well, to Alex anyway, maybe a chapter every night.

Bedtime - Almost every night the boys sleep in bed with me. I'm exahusted by bedtime and I'm too tired to fight with them about going to bed, so I throw them in bed with me, turn on a show and we all fall asleep in my bed together.  Then John comes home and sleeps on the couch because there's no room for him in bed and he's afraid to move the boys to their rooms and wake them up. Yeah, this has got to stop.  I'm starting an "Everyone sleeps in their own bed!" rule, with exceptions for nightmares or illness (when they boys have asthma problems I like them to sleep with me so I can be close when they have trouble breathing)

Potty training and thumb sucking - Max WILL be potty trained, he's ready, just stubborn. Alex's thumb sucking has gone from a nighttime thing to an ALL THE TIME thing, the first step is to get him to stop doing it all day long, then, maybe the night time thumb sucking won't be as big a deal.

Take a good family photo - 'nuff said