IN WHICH WE DISCUSS RESOLUTIONS

(should one of my resolutions be to keep this mirror more clean?) (probably)

Happy New Year! The dentist appointments have been scheduled. We're knocking them back one at a time. I'm seeing my fertility specialist in a few weeks to re-discuss strategy (one of these days remind me to write a post about how trying to get pregnant while fertile-challenged is basically just solving a rubics cube of scheduling). I've spackled together a cleaning schedule that'll keep this place spotless without depressing me overly much (vacuuming! somehow vacuuming is the worst!). I'm making it to my yoga class here . . . one of these days. I feel really good about things! It feels like January! Fresh starts! I have even been making a list of goals for myself! I almost never make New Years resolutions for myself, but this year I've been really into it for some reason.

What's that you say? You want me to share these resolutions with you? Well, hey! Let me share these resolutions with you!

ONE // This is the year that I am going to master Meal Planning. Capital M Capital P. No no, I mean it. My goal is to have a healthy dinner that I prepare, from scratch, on the table at a reasonable hour, at least three times a week. Brandon has requested that these not cost an arm and a leg, which means, sigh, no lobster (I am allergic to lobster, do you believe this!?). Money-saving, healthy dinners, I am aware that this is the simplest and most basic task a stay-at-home-mother should have mastered already. I know, I know it. We'll let it go.

TWO // Continue to simplify. Between the capsule experiment I did last year, the everyday challenge that is living calmly + peacefully in this open loft space of ours, and our slower, more holistic lifestyle in Brooklyn, I've gotten a little bit addicted to simplifying, organizing, and living with less. Airy and lovely. I hope to extend into other areas of my life as well. And you know, it feels like an accomplishment, the level of peace + calm I feel every time I walk into my home, and it should. I'm going to take more pride in the housekeeping that I do, because it matters. For a hot minute there I'd forgotten to make room on my list of acceptable satisfaction sources for nest fluffing.

THREE // I have a book coming out this year! So I'm putting my head down and going to try and focus on, well . . . that stuff. Like this blog for example! For the first time in my decade of blogging (ouch), I'm attempting an editorial calendar. Geez that sounds nerdy. Basically this means that every time I walk around and think to myself "hey, that'd make a great blog post!" that I actually make it into a great blog post. Hopefully great. But you never know. I don't know why this seems so daunting to me. It feels like eating cheese after finding out I'm not lactose intolerant, when really I wasn't ever lactose intolerant to begin with, more that I've been lactose . . . intimidated? Also. There are things I've missed writing that you may or may not have missed reading: like my Forever 21 posts. I try not to shop there, not even for fast fashion reasons, but also because of, well, flood gates / open, yadda yadda yadda, but I so miss writing those posts. They were so much fun. Should I bring them back? Would that seem overly disingenuous? Or maybe JUST RIGHT disingenuous? ;) And link roundups to interesting things I've been reading.  Remember when I used to do link roundups on Fridays with my Babble posts? And beauty posts. Topical things. Stand-alone essays. Gosh, I've been lazy in here. Here goes nothing.

FOUR // This is going to be the year we tackle eczema, so help me Bob! This will require torturous Aquaphor application before bed and a bit of experimenting with our diet during the day. It honestly sounds like the hugest headache to me, but Huck! You don't know it yet but your life is going to be so much radder without eczema! (Gosh, why are boys so happy living with the dumbest irritations rather than put some effort into something? Only four and already he thinks he knows everything. I will have my way on this one, you turkey!)

FIVE // Move More. Since moving to Brooklyn I tend to feel far less stir crazy than I did when I was living in Manhattan. Which is wonderful! But I'm losing steam on the staircases lately, and the days when I come home sore from having the city underfoot are lately few and far between. I've realized I miss walking, and the time it affords me to think things through and marinate on stuff. I have plenty of reasons to be out, I just need to remind myself to go out and stay out once I'm there. Take advantage of this city while I have it! You know, buy the groceries in person rather than ordering them online. Like today! Today I am going to go TO THE DRUGSTORE to get my Vitamin D supplements, rather than go to Amazon Prime. Pats all over my back right now. 

SIX // Take a biology class. This is because, some day, when my baby period is over (not yet! NOT YET!) I hope to get my Lactation Consultant Certification and spend all my days helping boobies and babies make magic. It'll take approximately 500 years to get there at the rate I'm taking it, which is really okay with me. I'm super hoping to be too distracted by a baby sometime soon to get around to it, so, just the one online biology class. That'll do. 

SEVEN // Write more. I want to sit myself down and write about the day I just had, every night, before bed. (I also want to pick up some fiction writing but I am not making that a resolution.)

Whew! Are you making any resolutions this year? It feels like a resolution kind of year, doesn't it? If you're making any I want to know yours too! Spill it so we can all remember the things we forgot we needed to work on this year. :)