March Goals

I can't believe another month is already here... and then some! I keep falling behind on these monthly review / goal posts, but a few days late will have to do because that's what you get. 

First let's see how I did on my February goals...

1. Finish one book, and read one more. CHECK! I finished All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, read The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin, and started Zlata's Diary by Zlata Filipovic (and finished it on March 1st... woo!)

2. Run one consecutive mile. Fail. Big time. Didn't even try... I've been sick, but that always seems to be my excuse lately.

3. Go to the gym 15+ times. Fail. See above.

4. Start packing for our PCS. Check! We started packing books and even a few clothing items. I'll be starting to pack hardcore this coming week - all the clothes we don't need until we get to warm Texas and all of Annabelle's clothes she has outgrow... which is always tough.

5. Celebrate seven years with Lieutenant Lovemuffin. Check! We had a nice, easygoing dinner together on the 25th, and I'll post more about that soon!

And now for the March goals...

1. Read two books. This one should hopefully go okay since I've been on a reading kick lately! I've noticed that I sleep much better at night when I read before turning off the lights. The only problem is when I get sucked into the story and stay up longer than I would have otherwise.

2. Enjoy my last few weeks with Ohio friends. It'll be tough to leave a few friends here, so I want to hang out and savor those moments as much as possible. There's little to no chance we'll ever be at the same base again because our husbands have very different career paths, but it is a small Air Force, so you never know! 

3. Successfully move from Ohio to Texas into our new home! This one is self explanatory... but it's going to be a real challenge getting all of our stuff (yes, we're doing a DITY) across the country, along with our vehicles (we have three... but that's a post for another day), ourselves, our child, and our three pets. Pray for us. Please.

Goals: February 2016

A new month means it's time for new goals... but let's check back in with January first to see how I did. Or maybe we shouldn't... it was THAT kind of month. I thought sharing my goals publicly would help me accomplish them, but you can all see that is NOT the case. Oops. At least I tried, right? 

My January goals were:

1. Get the house back in order. Check... and then uncheck. You see, I did get things back to how they needed to be (with the help of my husband - thanks!)... but then I got mastitis (again) and became utterly (udderly? haha) useless, and now the house is chaos again. But hey, at least the Christmas decorations are put away - AND we boxed them up REALLY well, so we can say we have our first few boxes packed for our big PCS next month! Woo!


2. Run one mile without walking. Nope. Fail. I came so incredibly close to this one. I even logged 19.5 running miles for January... but none of them were one straight mile. I had increased from a quarter mile at a time to three quarters of a mile at a time without walking, and I know I CAN run one consecutive mile... I just didn't want to overdo it since I'm just picking back up postpartum AND had a leg injury before pregnancy. That said, I was going to increase to one straight mile on the same day I got mastitis. I've been out since then. Once I'm better, I'll try again. 


3. Read one book. Fail. But really... I have no excuse for this one. I can't even blame the mastitis this time. I just simply didn't get it done. I did read about 250 pages of All the Light We Cannot See, but I certainly didn't finish; I'm only about half way through. Oh, and I missed Book Club anyway... because of the mastitis (bet you didn't see that one coming). 


4. Type 30 recipes for my cookbook. Fail. I didn't even come close here. I guess it just wasn't a priority for me this month like I thought it would be. Maybe soon?


5. Complete one of my 30 Before 30 tasks. CHECK! I did this one. I made it to two new states, which is how many I needed to check off the "visit ten new states" by the time I'm 30. I have just 16 states to go to "collect them all"! We drove seven hours to Niagara Falls for our first vacation as a family of three (more about that later), and I was able to add New York (on the way there) and Michigan (on the way home) during that trip! Yay!

Now that I'm through embarrassing myself for my lack of self-discipline, let's take a look at my goals for February!

1. Finish one book, and read one more. I need to finish All The Light We Cannot See (really, I'm enjoying it immensely... but I just haven't made the time for it), and I'll start and finish another book.

2. Run one consecutive mile. Since I know I'm close but will need to log a few more make-up treadmill sessions from being sick, I decided to go with this same goal. 

3. Go to the gym 15+ times. It's tough with Dan's schedule, but we try to make it work by him going before work and me going when he gets home... or we both go in the afternoon, while Annabelle goes to the daycare area at the Y. I'm not a huge fan of that (germs... ugh), but I need to put my own health first sometimes too.

4. Start packing for our PCS. We move at the tail end of next month, and Dan has to defend his thesis still... we're busy over here. That's why we need to get a jump start on packing some of the things we won't need... like our summer clothes and some of my crafting supplies. Those can be boxed up ahead of time.

5. Celebrate seven years with Lieutenant Lovemuffin. Okay, so this one is easy because it's going to happen on the 25th anyway. But this will force me into celebrating it with him despite having Annabelle around. It's easy to forego date nights because of a baby, but I have something simple up my sleeve for this special day... it's not our wedding anniversary, so it's nothing big, but I still want to make it special.