Oh Hello 2018, it’s nice to meet you! I have big plans for you.
This year is going to be a great year for team George, a year of love, fun and family. A year that is hopefully hospital admission free and a chance for us to find our feet as a family of 3. But it wouldn’t be complete without a new list and… this year’s list has a good feeling about it, just like last years. Although unlike last year I am not planning on getting pregnant so that will hopefully mean there is a good chance I will actually be able to cross everything off.
This year’s list is list no. 10… 10… taking my list items attempted up to 1000… What a crazy thought. (Like always you can check out all the old lists by clicking the year they were attempted here: 2006, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.) This years list has a few self improvement tasks, some fun tasks, some things I just have to do and lots of baby friendly things… because that is our life now… which is great… but very very foreign. But mostly 2018’s list feels like an achievable list.
Excitingly, this year Isaac has a list of his very own… because a family that lists together, stays together! Plus I thought it might be a fun way to document some of his achievements and some of the fun we get up to. His list only has 25 things on it… because he is only little and he needs help with everything… including his list.
Once again I am also hoping (like every other year) that 2018 will be the year that I get more consistent with blogging, about both of our lists and life in general. I have a few things planned to help make it happen, but we will see. Anyway… here are the lists….
My list:
- Learn how to fold a fitted sheet
- Learn how to make 3 different balloon animals
- Watch the never ending story
- Watch some ER… maybe a season or two
- Spend a weekend in country vic
- Have some family photos taken
- Go to a wedding
- Get a full nights sleep
- Go down to Inverloch
- Go camping
- Remember to take Isaac’s milestone pictures
- Get back to running
- Take Isaac to parkrun at least 5times
- Go swimming
- Go to the zoo
- Have a play date
- Check out a mums and bubs session
- Check out the local library
- Have a picnic
- Wear some non maternity jeans
- Go without games on my phone for at least 2 months
- Work on my mornings
- Cook dinner regularly
- Keep getting closer
- Work on my steps game
- Embrace life with the oxygen
- Try weekly blogging
- Keep the family in good supply of Isaac updates
- Have a date night once a month
- Give Dave some time back
- Embrace my independence
- Go without TV for a week
- Actually wash my car regularly
- Get the blue Kia repaired
- Take Dex and Isaac on a walk, solo
- Walk to my MCH appointments
- Thank the hospital
- Do a fun run/walk
- Play a game of some kind
- Let something go
- Remember Joshua
- Celebrate the small things
- Live oxygen free
- Walk and have a mid week brunch date with Isaac at half half
- Join a mother’s group
- Drink a bottle of water everyday
- Keep track of the things I am supposed to be doing
- Plan at night
- Take a photo everyday
- Visit a museum / gallery
- Sort out my photo storage
- Scan the photos in
- Recycle the VHS tapes
- Read 6 books – novels… not picture books
- Cross at least one thing off the list each month
- Be deliberate about filling the house with good thinks like flowers and music
- Edit and finalise Isaac’s logs and maybe publish them
- Make a photo book of Isaac’s 1st year
- Return of the fit pig
- Through things out / recycle / donate
- Clean out the garage
- Finish the scrap books
- Finish Isaac’s room
- Wear a real bra
- Figure out how to be a working mum
- Go somewhere with out Isaac – embrace the baby sitter
- Make a cake for Isaac’s first birthday
- Go overseas
- Make a Lolly cake
- Keep the pantry and fridge under control
- Watch a Disney movie with Isaac
- Add Isaac’s pendant to my necklace
- Organise the casts we had done for Isaac
- Use the go-pro more
- Make my language child friendly
- Check out ArtVo
- Finish the bible reading plan I started last year
- Exercise weekly… hopefully more, but at least weekly
- Make a key lime pie
- Purée some food
- Have a spend nothing day once a month
- Make the most of our delivery saver
- Get a mani/pedi and get a colour you’ve never had before
- Get a massage
- Do a Mums and bubs exercise class
- Get some kind of routine
- Contribute
- Hang up the pump
- Update some photo wall photos
- Get the pictures framed
- Hang out with my besties
- See Coco
- Have a meal with all of our parents and siblings (separately)
- Have an ice coffee at 3 different places
- Touch the ocean
- Have a fun fight
- Fix my computer
- Wear something other than a black T-shirt for a whole week
- Keep our bedroom tidy
- Save some money
Isaac’s List:
- Try some food
- Ditch my oxygen
- Sit up by myself
- Suck on my toes
- Go to the park
- Pat Dex
- Have a party
- Visit my friends at Monash Children’s
- Go on a fun run/Walk in my pram
- Get around on my own
- Go for a swim
- Try story time at the library
- Make some baby friends
- Go on an adventure with Dad
- Sleep through the night
- Get some teeth
- Watch a Disney movie with Mum
- Have brunch with my ladies
- Go to the beach
- Learn a word
- Cuddle all of my grandparents and great grandparents
- Make a keepsake
- Go on a plane
- Try my jolly jumper
- Grow
Ok… there it is… if you need us, we will be listing.
The Most Curious George 