Assessing 2009 and Goals for 2010

Goals for the Home:
Last year I created a list of goals for 2009 with mixed results. My husband getting laid off from his job prevented us from doing a lot of the home improvement projects I wanted to do, although we did manage to get a couple of things accomplished.

For this year my goal is to come up with a regular schedule for household chores--nothing too exact--just a basic schedule of what I want to get done each week. And I also need to go through the entire house to do some assessing, reorganizing, and general maintenance.

Finally the room in our house known to us as "spare-oom" has recently become the "junk room." So one of my main projects I need to work on is getting it cleaned out. And then I need to go through the stuff in our outbuilding and decide what to keep and what to get rid of. (I'm not looking forward to this at all, but I know it's got to be done!)

Financial Goals:
Again the whole lay off thing prevented us from reaching our financial goals of paying off some debts last year. So we're going to try again this year.

Business:
One goal we have for our business this year is to set up scheduled time. In the past, we haven't kept a regular schedule, so for this year we need more consistency. And we also have a goal to set up at least one regularly scheduled meeting at our home or another location each week.

Cooking & Diet:
I did well with my goal of making at least one new recipe each month, and some months I was able to do more than one. I will try to continue on with this goal in 2010 because I love cooking, and I love discovering new favorite recipes for our family.

Also, I've gotten out of my meal planning habit, though I've managed to get back on it in the last few weeks. So this year I need to work on this more.

My husband was recently diagnosed with diabetes, so this makes my need to meal plan a lot more crucial. And due to his condition, he was placed on a diet, which doesn't depend so much on restricting foods as it does on restricting portion sizes, carbs, and calories, so this year I'll be working on sticking to the diet that the dietitian has given my husband. And I also need to work on my own diet and take vitamins.

Exercise:
My husband has set some diet, excercise, and weight loss goals for himself. So I'm going to try to help him (and help myself) by exercising with him and doing some excercise on my own. My husband plans on exercising 5 times a week, so I'm going to shoot for 3 times for myself.

Crafts:
Last year I started making jewelry. I had planned on opening a shop a few months ago, but I never got around to it. So this year it's going to happen for sure! I also want to try my hand at a couple of other craft projects this year, I have several different things in mind, one of which is mod podge. I'm always seeing the cutest decor projects made with that stuff. And then there are a lot of other things as well.

Blogging & Office Hours:
As I look at the blog, I think it lacks cohesion and is a bit unpredictable, so I'm thinking of trying something new for this year. Just as I do my recipe at the beginning of each week, I'm going to try to do regular features for the rest of the week. I've sorta tried to do this in the past, but I just didn't stick with it. So now I'm giving it another go.

I also need to have scheduled blogging time. I often get on the computer for hours at a time and have no idea where the time goes or what I've even accomplished. So this year, I'm going to try to keep better track of what I'm doing with my time and to be more consistent with posting, commenting, twittering, etc.

Spiritual Goals:

In the past few months we've started going to a new church, and each week my husband and I discuss the lessons and sermons together. We want to continue with this in the new year and also work toward having a better relationship and just being better people.

Happy New Year! And Good Luck With Your Goals & Resolutions!

-Jerri