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Nothing this year. Planning to quit my "job" (if it can be called such) as soon as Alex gets his, and focus on being mommy for a bit.
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Done
Actually, when I wrote that I could not have imagined how satisfying a job it would be, or how proud I would be of the job I've done thus far. I give Amelia much of the credit for making it easy, and I rarely toot my own horn on this front, but if I'm honest, I am proud of the role I've played in her development. There, I said it.
That being said, there are areas I can work on, both as a parent and a person, so I'm going to break from tradition this year and actually state some specific goals:
1. I need to give her more opportunities for physical development. I started working on this a couple months ago, when I realized that, while my taking her out and around town was wonderful for her mental and social stimulation, I was keeping her in the carseat/stroller/shopping cart too much and she wasn't getting enough time to work on entertaining herself or work on her crawling and walking. So I'm spending a bit more time at home for her to run around and play, as well as making a concerted effort when out (especially at DL) to pull her out of the stroller and set her down more often to encourage walking and exploration.
2. There are things that need to go to storage and things that just plain need to go. I'm going to make that happen. Which leads to:
3. Toy rotation. There are too many toys in my living room. Some of them need to go up to Amelia's room and get periodically rotated in. Not just to keep things interesting for Amelia, but because there are grownups who live in this house too, and you'd never know it looking at my living room floor.
4. I'm going to eat more apples this year. I know, oddly specific. I've sort of recently rediscovered liking them, and I figured it was easier to make a specific trackable goal like that instead of a generic commitment to health. I hardly eat any fruit, and that's been the case most of my life, and an area I could really afford to improve. So my plan is to always have a fresh apple available in the house, and if I don't get to it before it gets bad, to replace it, so I always have the option of replacing an unhealthy snack with a healthy one. My ambition is 50 apples. That's essentially an apple a week. I doubt I'll make it, but I'm going to try.