It's been so long and now it's a new year!

Wow, it's been so long since I've written anything!  I'm surprised people are still interested!  LOL  My last entry to date was in September of last year and man has a lot happened since then.

In October we found out we were expecting our third child.  How exciting right?  To most it would except I became so sick with morning sickness some days I wondered if I would survive!  My poor house fell apart and my poor husband had so much put on him to keep the household at least running.  I finally made it to the doctor and was able to get some medication that would help with it but the morning sickness never actually went away until around Christmas.  Thank goodness!  We did have a wonderful holiday with wonderful family surrounding us.  It was a lot of fun.

Which brings us to the new year.  Is it really 2011?  We had some wonderful news at the beginning of the year, we will be having a little girl come June!  Now that's exciting and a great way to start the new year off!

So speaking of the new year (even though I know its February!), its that infamous time of year when people start to think about themselves and their lives and think about how to change them for the new year.  I'm definitely one of those people.  I think about my life- financially, spiritually, health, stability, everything.  Now I'm not a resolution person.  I don't think resolutions do anything for the psyche especially if don't happen to keep them.  In fact, most people don't keep them and then have a feeling of failure.  I don't like the feeling of failure.  So here goes with my list of things I want to change or continue getting better at this year without actually making a resolution.  These are more like ongoing goals.

Let's start with health since that's the most popular resolution.  I want to get my family back to eating healthier.  Unfortunately, while I was ill for all those weeks my family slipped from the healthy bandwagon and fell onto the processed foods bandwagon.  I want to get my children eating healthier again.  More fruits and definitely more vegeatables with less brown and beige on the plate.  I love color and best place for it is on my plate!  I also want to continue taking care of my body while I'm carrying this precious child.  It has not been an easy road but when has something easy been worth it in the end?  My goal for after the baby is to definitely drop all the baby weight.  To get myself to a healthy weight again and maybe even better.  I'm hoping the new workout games for the kinect will help with that and then I won't need to go to the gym.

Now the next most popular resolution- finances.  Who doesn't want to get their finances in order?  I think everyone who is concious about their spending wants to get it under control and maybe even get out of debt.  Like most Americans we have debt.  Although we don't have nearly as much debt as others we do have some and eats away at us every month.  We want to get away from using a credit card and using more cash and that includes our debit card.  Its just so darn easy to swipe that plastic and even my kids think its just that easy.  They once told me when they wanted something that we could just swipe our card at the "EMT" (ATM) and it would give us money.  They didn't even begin to understand that we have to put money in to get money out.  All money is to them is plastic.  So on top of getting ourselves financially fit, with help from Dave Ramsey, we hope to get our children financially smart.  I want to make sure they don't grow up just thinking that money is some plastic.  This is definitely not going to a feat well accomplished in a month or two.

My spiritual being needs to be looked at as well.  I've always tried to be a spiritual person but I know I could do better.  I need to finish reading the Bible which I started months and months ago.  And although this is no excuse when I became ill with morning sickness it along with many other things got put to the side.  So one of my goals is to finish it.  I can only begin to understand my being when I have begun to understand the best Book in the world.

My home also needs a little mini makeover.  The winter blahs can really affect someone's pysche.  Now its not typically too hard to makeover something in one's home, the trick?  Doing it on the frugal side which means cheap, free, or reusable.  I have some thoughts on how to do this but we will see.  I will post some pictures when I get it done. 

And of course, there's always the question of stability.  Everyone wants stability.  Some of the goals I have for my family this year could bring stability but I think its more mental stability for myself that my house is able to get back on its feet after my weeks of illness.  My biggest goal this year is to get my family back on track, get the routines back on track and most of all clear all the clutter!  Hopefully this year will bring more blog posts too!  :-)  So here's a Happy New Year and since its February, Happy Valentine's Day!!