new year, new post

I have simple desires and I'm not a very ambitious person. While this admittedly sometimes has a negative side [ie. the daily state of my house], it really works for me when it comes to the first day of a new year and all of the ever optimistic resolution making that often goes along with it. Some may call it aiming low - I call it setting myself up for success.

Goals/resolutions/fingers-crossed hopes for 2019:

• Cook some napa cabbage
• Lotion my hands more
• Easily slide another human being out of my uterus
• Write another post before May
• Teach a 4-year-old to wipe his own bottom
• Eat at a new restaurant
• Read 100 mediocre books
• More spaghetti nights
• Let Jason dust the house once this year
• Teach 1-year-old to say something. Anything. 
• Resist buying more wrapping paper

Stretch goals for 2019:

• Transition from hand washing dishes to using a dishwasher
• Trick my kids into liking eggs
• Increase my showered-to-unshowered days ratio
• Embrace the present
• Focus on gratitude

goodbye 2018 - hello year of how-is-it-almost-2020