Goals (not soccer)

I hate New Years resolutions. I find it annoying. Why do you wait until the beginning of the year to do things and make goals that you could do any time during the year? It doesn't make sense to me.

Ken and I often talk about what our goals are. However, we've been on hold in that department. With starting home school, having a baby, and dealing with this depression, we just haven't been able to make new goals yet.

On Sunday I was looking up recipes and stumbled across several new blogs. I was very excited. One was making $5 meals and another was about finances. It got me to thinking about the goals that we wanted to make. I was very excited. Ken and I talked for a couple of hours about how we want our lives to be and how to get there. I was inspired. I felt on fire. It was awesome.

Then Monday comes. I made goals for what I wanted to get done that day. I was still inspired. It was awesome. Then the kids woke up. They decided that I should have different goals for the day. Goals that didn't have any thing to do what my previous goals. ~sigh~ I went with it. I adjusted. Not well at first. I looked at the things I wanted to get done and wasn't going to be able to and I felt very overwhelmed. I was upset that things weren't going how I wanted them to.

Oh well. I have three kids and I home school. Things won't always go how I want them. I got over it and figured out what I could do instead. Not much got done that day. My goals were to fold and put away the 8 loads of laundry I'd done the day before, wash and put away more laundry, do dishes, pick up the living room and vacuum, and make dinner. I did get 4 loads of laundry done. None of the laundry was folded or put away. The living room didn't get picked up or vacuumed. We had pizza for dinner. I didn't go crazy. It was a good day.