2013 - begins - finally (2-1)

Greg and I have decided to pretend that January never happened. January? What January? And since there is no record of anything happening on the blog - it's pretty easy to just wipe that month off the books and move on. So . . moving on.

Drumroll please . . . introducing . . . our 2013 goals!

I loved, loved, loved tracking my goals last year and then reporting them (as if the readership on this blog were investors looking for a quarterly/weekly report). I've thought a lot about this struggling little blog of ours and what it's for and really - it's for us. So we're going to keep going on with it -even if blogs are passe. Let's face it - I love the instant gratification from clever quips on facebook or instagram (@kittyesquire - see I can't stop myself!) but really - the blog can be turned into a book that makes it seem like we have some sort of family history going - and we like it. So we're going to make it happen.

So . . . we have thought long and hard about what to do for 2013. I love setting goals and making resolutions. Only because it is so important to feel like I'm moving forward, improving things, changing, growing - even if, in reality, we are kind of standing still. We've decided to work with 13 and the term "finish" - there are just a ton of things that we need to simply "finish".  Anyway - here goes:

Run 13 - 13's in 2013 (these don't all have to be "official" races or anything)
Go to the temple 13 times (at least - I'm not limiting myself to these things but 13 is a good hard number)
Read at least 13 x 4 books (ha! that makes 52)
Accomplish 13 projects around the house
Perform 13 acts of service (sincere service)
Finish 13 craft projects (holy cannoli I have a lot of crap crafts around the house that need to be finished!)
13 blog posts a month (yep, that's right - be prepared for pictures of Henry, Henry, and more Henry)
Lose 13 lb's (and not the same ones over and over and over)
Go hiking/biking at least 13 times

Oy vey - this looks overwhelming. I guess it kind of is. But really we have a google spreadsheet to help us track it - so um we're off. Sure, we are a little behind seeing that January didn't even happen - but we're on it. And really - if we don't reach all our goals - that's okay - we just don't want to be here in February 2014 saying, "um what did we do last year?"