New Year Goals

Yes, it's Resolution season! I didn't make many goals last year, and the only ones I remember are scrap/stamp related, but this year since I have a blog to actually keep track of myself, I've developed a few more! If anyone is interested, I read an article yesterday about Resolutions - click here to view. My favorite part said, "goals are stars to steer by, not sticks to beat yourself with" so then I didn't feel so bad about the simple goals I make.

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I was very pleased that I passed my scrapping goal of 104 pages for 2008 - it may not seem like a lot, but for me, it's almost 3 times as many as I usually do in one year. Here are two slideshows of all the pages I completed last year...

So for 2009, I set the same page goal of 104 pages (2 pages per week) - I would have increased my goal, since I met last year's goal by June, but with a new baby coming in just about a month, I didn't want to set that one too high. My other scrapping goals for this year include using up more of the pics that I already have printed BEFORE I get any more printed. I am so bad about that. I'm thinking I need to do at least 5 pages with pics I have stored before I can do any pages with newly printed pics. I just re-organized one of my scrap cabinets and most of the space in there is taken up by boxes of pics I have printed and organized, I just haven't done anything with yet, so my goal is to free up a little bit of that space.

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Last year another goal was to enter the CTMH monthly contests each month - I didn't quite get every month, I missed a couple, but I was very satisfied with the results - I won 3 Runner-Up awards! This year my goal is still to enter each month, so we'll see how it goes this time!

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While we were cleaning and re-organizing, getting ready to move the girls around during the last couple of weeks, David kindly pointed out how many unfinished projects that I have stored. I am VERY bad about that! I think that's why I like scrapbooking so much, because there is no guilt and no pressure - I know I will NEVER be done and probably won't ever get caught up, but that's okay! I can add a page here or there and just let my books keep growing, and enjoy the memories while I'm doing it! So, this year, my goal is to finish at least ONE unfinished project ;-) No, that doesn't seem like much at all, but most of the projects are crafts that I haven't done for a while, since scrapping is my passion right now. So if I get some free time and can drag myself away from the stamps, paper, and ink, then one project should be good!

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Anyway, now on to my more personal goals. Of course, every year I strive to be a better mother/wife/friend, etc, I just don't really have any specific targets for that one ;-) Another one is to lose this baby weight after I have the baby! When I was pregnant with Brailee, I gained over 50 pounds (the most I have EVER gained) and never lost all of it. With this pregnancy, I haven't gained as much, but since my starting weight was about 20 pounds higher than normal, I'm about where I was with Brailee. I will be getting a new bike trailer this spring since my old one finally gave out, so I hope to put it to good use!

Happy New Year to everyone and good luck with your own goals!