Final Blog-a-Thon post & goals for the future

Good News: The blog-a-thon is almost over! I don’t think I can do one more night in a row of staying up late blogging.

Bad News: The blog-a-thon is almost over :/ It has been kinda fun blogging my heart out.

For the last post, I have yet another list. Then I will try to stay away from lists for a while. This list is of my goals for the rest of my time here. They say if you make your goals public, you are more likely to reach them. So thanks in advance for helping me reach my goals!

1. I want to keep up on this blog better. I have lots of fun ideas of things I want to post about. Not saying I am going to post everyday like I did this week {that was A LOT of work!} but I am going to try to post at least once a week.

2. I want to do more activities with the kids. This is my FAVORITE part of babysitting. I think that is why I have always been the favorite of the kids I tend, because I do activities with them. I would literally spend hours planning things for them the day before I was supposed to babysit and often, I would spend more money than I would make on supplies. But it’s why I love it so much. Coming into this, I had such great plans. But then reality set it in, & I realized that with Christian being so little most of my time was going to go to him. And it has. I have done a few activities here and there with the girls, but not even close to how many I would have liked. But I feel now that Christian is becoming a more independent little toddler that I can start doing more activities with the girls. & this makes me happy inside!!! I am going to try to plan fun little activities for him to be doing with us. I still won’t be able to do as many as I would originally have liked, but a few crafts & treats a week is going to make my life & hopefully the girls 10x better! I’ll keep you posted on all the fun stuff!

3. I want to put some effort in to how I look on a daily basis. I never wanted to be that girl who never bothered to put on decent clothes & makeup, but sadly, that is what I am becoming. Working with a toddler is not a clean job, so I obviously don’t want to wear my best clothes, but I am going to put a little more effort forth & limit sweats to a few times a week. As with makeup, a little mascara never hurt anyone right??

4. Start working out in the mornings. Of all my goals this one is the one that is probably the least likely to happen, but maybe since I made it public…. I really need to start getting in shape for our Bahamas’ trip that is coming up very quickly! Plus losing those couple of pounds I’ve put on since I’ve moved here would be nice. Is the freshman 15 applicable here?

5. Keep in touch with siblings more. Like I’ve mentioned before, I talk to my parents every night. But with my siblings, that is so not the case. I play scrabble on my phone with Mir & text them all when I get a chance, but I feel like that is not enough. I really want to call them all at least 1x a week.

6. Start going to church more often. Let’s be honest, when Sunday rolls around, getting up @ 7:30 is not at the top of the list of things I want to do. But sleeping is. But I really want to change that.

7. Make friends. I don’t want to go back to Utah with the Waller's being my only friends here. I was looking at this other girls blog who is a nanny & how many friends she had made & all the things she had done with them. I want that.

8. Take lessons of something. I am on a bettering myself kick & I want to learn something new. I’ll let you know when I know what it is.

9. Read my scriptures nightly. Even when I was taking seminary, I was never good at this. But when I did have a while when I was, I felt so much better about life & had a better outlook. I want that again. 10 minutes can’t be that hard right?

10. Have my future planned. By the time I leave here I want to have figured out what I want out of life, where I am going to school & what I am going to do for a career planned out. Luckily, I already have a pretty good idea of this.

11. Save $10,000. I have money that automatically goes out of my account every paycheck, so if all goes as planned, this goal should be easy. Not taking that money out of savings is the hard part.

Well, that's it. My first offical Blog-a-thon. Good times, right?

P.S~ I found pictures on my phone that I wanted to add to my "Home & Jessica's wedding" post so if you already read it, you might wanna go back & check those out :)