So… it’s been a while… 12 whole months in fact since I have logged on and updated my blog. I have started writing things, but I haven’t posted. I think there are a couple of reasons… the biggest one being that we are living through a global pandemic and it felt a bit trivial and redundant to spend time writing on here and either pretending life was still grand and we were doing super fun things or pretending to have any kind of wisdom to offer anyone at the moment. I have also spent most of 2021 growing a baby which is hard work so I guess that may have contributed too. Regardless, here I am again… between 3hourly feeds bringing another set of lists for the year.
It is ambitious to you know… make plans… especially after the last two years, but if you don’t hope and make plans you just despair, so we are going with plans, plans for fun, plans for adventure and plans for some normality.
I know this time last year I was waxing lyrical about the potential of 2021… and I have learnt my lesson… just like every other year, this one comes with no guarantees other than it will be its own mixture of good and bad, hard and easy… and that despite the challenges the world will bring, we will continue to make the most of it. Plus we will have the challenge and fun that learning how to be a family of four will bring and the fun of another additional list for her.
I am sure you probably know the drill by now… but just in case… you can get up to speed on all the previous lists here: 2006, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 & 2021. So, this year’s lists, just like last year’s, contains some safe options and some that would perhaps currently be considered wishful thinking. Isaac’s list is much the same… although this year his has more fun and than developmental milestones, and we have a brand new list for Tilly, but her’s is mostly developmental goals so I remember to document them. This year I am hoping to find a better balance between documenting and just enjoying and hopefully actually blogging. Eventually, I might even get around to writing about what we crossed off last year. Anyway, here are the lists…
My List
- Bring Matilda Home
- Try some shampoo concentrate
- Sew a piece of clothing
- Read 12 books
- Use the overlocker
- Get my inbox back to 0
- Keep my inbox under control
- Get my covid booster
- Exercise at least 3 times a week
- Take two kids out by myself
- Start walking regularly again
- Go for a run by myself
- Return to Parkrun
- Go to the movies
- Travel somewhere fun in Victoria
- Sleep in the backyard or go camping for real
- Use the fire pit
- Get my step average back up
- Have a child free night
- Blog at least 15 times
- Organise primary school for Isaac
- Call/update our grandparents regularly
- Take a picture everyday
- Keep working on the photo storage
- Attend an exercise class
- Make a costume for Isaac
- Plan our meals again
- Read to Isaac and the baby everyday
- Go on a date with Isaac
- 6 dates with Dave
- Brunch with 10 different people
- Don’t over book myself
- Sing at church
- Hear some live music
- Swim at the beach
- Sing some carols
- Take some family photos
- Visit all three zoos
- Try 4 new restaurants
- Learn how to be a better ally to my Aboriginal and Torres Strait brothers and sisters
- Walk from cape schanck to bush ranger bay
- See a waterfall
- Seriously finish and print Isaac’s logs
- Fish and chips on the beach at the beginning of the year and at the end of the year
- Visit Inverloch
- Winter get away
- Take Isaac swimming just for fun
- Make some new play dough
- Put my clothes away within two days of them being washed
- Fix the storage in Isaac’s room
- Run down under
- Bake some meringues
- Bake a sponge cake
- Get some new glasses
- Get a skin check
- Attempt to get overseas
- Play a board/card game
- No Facebook or Instagram after 10:30pm
- Keep my car free of rubbish
- Do the 2020 & 2021 scrap books
- Go through and sort Isaac’s clothes
- Go to at least one of Dave’s school concerts
- Entertain more guests
- Go to the redwoods
- Have a cup of tea in the park
- Get a haircut
- Update the photo wall
- Visit 3 new playgrounds
- Go to a museum
- Have a picnic
- Get a solid state hard drive
- Have some fairy floss
- Remember the big things
- Use my gratitude diary
- Visit the library
- Making some dumplings
- Finish the new laundry storage
- Have a real iced coffee from a cafe
- Wardrobe clean out
- Eat a vegetable from our garden
- Use my crochet kit
- Phones away for dinner
- Have a slurpee
- Turn the TV off one night a week
- Have an Isaac decides day
- Start a new family tradition
- Have some hot jam donuts
- Test drive a new car
- Where some non maternity clothes
- Learn how to breast feed
- Have high tea
- Enjoy some soft cheese and dip with abandon
- Lie on my stomach
- Have soft serve ice cream
- Get a massage
- Return to playgroup
- Catch up with my Mother’s group
- Walk up mount lofty
- Cook a rack of lamb
- Re-start my herb garden
So there you go… A brand new list ready to go
The Most Curious George 