A little winter vacation getaway....

Happy 2010 to everyone!!! I hope you all had a great New Year's holiday. Jeremy and I were able to take a little winter vacation getaway to the Grand Lake area for a few days. My parents have a condo up there, which they were wonderful to let us use...but even more wonderful, they were willing/brave enough to keep Jackson and our dog Tanner for 3 days/2 nights! I must say, as much as I love my son, I love having some time for just Jeremy and I....which is one of my resolution/goals for the year. We were able to sleep in, if you call sleeping uninterrupted till between 8-9am sleeping in, which I do! We watched movies and did some reading and internet surfing in front of the fire....it was great! When we got to the condo there was still a few inches of snow on the ground, but we woke up to 4-6 inches more this morning when we went to leave. It's a darn good thing we brought a snow shovel. And it's also a darn good thing I got a new all-wheel drive car last week...which has now seen 2 different snow falls and I haven't even had it a full week yet!



In the second picture you can just barely see my car...it's a blue subaru outback...and I llloooovvveee it!

So several of my blogging friends have made new year's resolution posts, and to be perfectly honest, I've never been a huge resolution person. I think I am more of a detail oriented person, so when I set goals I set them on a smaller scale and I set more of them. Jeremy, on the other hand, is a big picture person. So he does much better at setting yearly goals. So to keep with new year's traditions here are some of my up and coming goals (let's say 3-6 months worth):
1) Finish my current home renovation projects before baby #2 gets here. This goal somewhat feeds into my current nesting needs...that and I know there won't be much time/energy for home projects for a while after March. Project A-finish redoing our master bathroom shower. We're in the rebuilding phase so we're getting there. This is a whole post to itself. I'll get before, during, and God-willing after pictures up soon. Project B- redoing the nursery. This too I'll go into further detail at a later date, but basically it's very boy right now and I'm going to change it to very girlie.
2) Work on more appropriately dividing my time between wife, mom, and professional duties. I will say that 2009 was an eye opening year on this subject. If I had to assign a percentage of my time to various categories, as I spent it in 2009, it would be as follows: mommy duties 60%, household duties 20%, professional duties 10%, wifely duties 9%, self-preservation duties (i.e. reading a book, getting a pedicure, dinner with friends, etc.) 1%. I'll be the first to admitt that this needs some real work....so I'll be interested to see what percents I give these categories a year from now!
3) Better my financial planning. With a second baby on the way where and how I spend my money is going to have to improve. I'm definately more of a saver then Jeremy is...so hopefully I can continue this trend.
4) Get in better shape. This is going to be a hard goal to work on for the next several months, for obvious reasons. But after the baby gets here and I'm cleared by my Dr. I HAVE GOT TO GET MOVING! This goal goes somewhat hand in hand with goal #2 under the self-preservation category. I think I will feel better and I think I need the time (both mentally and physically) that getting some exercise will provide. That and I've been eating like crazy with this pregnancy!!
5) Professional continuity. So this has been coming and going off of my goals list for 3 years now. I've been a part time speech pathologist and part time figure skating coach for several years now. And while I've enjoyed my work schedule and this has afforded me the ability to stay home with Jackson 2 days per week....it's also been very complicated. Meaning, I don't have 1 day of the week that looks the same, schedule-wise, every day is different. And when it was just Jeremy and I this worked just fine. But this doesn't work so well for my very schedule-oriented toddler. So, I'm not sure of the solution at this point, but I'm working on it.

So those 5 goals should be more then enough to keep me busy for the next 3-6 months, if not for the entire next year, especially with baby #2 joining the scene soon!