Here is a quick list of things I’m hoping to accomplish in 2010…

• Be more frugal! Live a simpler life. Get rid of “junk” and excess. Keep what I need and what has real sentimental value and donate / sell the rest. Clutter is my nemesis and I will defeat it this year! Also wanting to stick to our budget and try to put money into savings.
• Get reacquainted with my sewing machine. I’d like to start sewing a few things and get better at it. I wouldn’t mind setting up an Etsy shop and selling a few goodies. I would really like to try sewing some cloth diapers, cloth wipes and hot/cold packs.
• Write in my blog more often. I have a tendency to hold off on blog posts until I think I have something worthwhile to post or something witty to say. I want to bring back the mundane every-day posts, even if they are only a few sentences long. These are the little things that I want to look back on and I have really lost sight of why I even started blogging in the first place.
• Eat healthy.. Of course! This is the one everyone always chooses and then most people drop off the band wagon a couple weeks into the year. I really want to eat better and exercise a little more. All of these yummy indulgences that we have these days weren’t readily available 50 or 60 years ago like they are today.. and I would like to get back to those simpler times. I have a feeling that the best way for me to do this is to eliminate sugar from my diet. I think sugar is the culprit of the cravings that I endure and give in to on a daily basis. I am trying to work on this and also figure out a frugal way to diet. Diet foods are sooo expensive. My favorite low calorie bread is $3.00 for a small loaf.. When you can get a huge white loaf of bread for $1.10! I’ll never understand why this country makes it so hard for people to afford to eat healthy and then complain all of the time about how the obesity rate is alarmingly high.
• Go on more dates with hubby and let someone babysit Zoey more. She will be 9 months old in a week and she has only ever been away from us for a few hours at a time and only a couple of times total. I’m worried that she is going to get too attached to us and then cry whenever we leave her. Luckily, she loves her Grandma and Grandpa here so I don’t think she’ll have any problem with them watching her, ever. Gene and I really need to put more effort than we used to have to into our relationship and I think we need to schedule monthly dates where we go see a movie and to dinner. I’m hoping we can make this happen in 2010! We’ve neglected our relationship on Zoey’s behalf over the last 9 months, unknowingly of course.
• Send cards!! I am soooo awful at sending birthday / holiday cards to family and friends. My goal this year is to send more cards to people. A card means SO much and can say so much.

That is all I can think about right now. I’m sure there is more.