2013 Goals

Call them goals, New Year resolutions...what you  may!!! I love GOALS...so this year, I don't have New Year resolutions...I have goals!

Watch less TV

There are so many shows out there that I watch that are junk. I wouldn't mind downgrading our current package to get less channels. It's very difficult when your husband has to have ESPN. Only channel on his request list. I'll look into possible new options when our contract is up in July but for now I have deleted shows on my DVR list and will try not to come home every night and turn on the TV.

Fully fund our emergency fund

Being an accountant, I am very conscious of where we spend our money and we have a budget every month. Some may think it's extreme, but I love the way we do it and I look forward to doing our budget every month. Tate and I decided in May last year that we would get serious about our financial goals and we are reaching them and it feels GREAT! We would have had our emergency funded by December 2012 if we hadn't decided to remodel 3 rooms in our house, but it was needed and we really wanted it done before we had a child. If everything goes to plan, we should have our emergency fund fully funded by April 2013.

Start paying off mortgage early

All our 'extra' money is going to our emergency fund so after that is funded, we have the baby and I am back to work, we will like to put that extra money towards our mortgage and pay it off early. I am not a fan of debt...never have been and never will be. I just imagine what we could do with that money every month if we had our house paid off and we are not paying interest on a huge loan. We put a little tiny bit towards it each month, but not enough to really do anything so adding to it and having it move faster to zero would make this goal achievable in due time!

Make work lunches night before

Yes, I am one of those wives that makes her husband's lunch everyday! We save a lot of money doing it that way and I don't mind doing it. Besides, Tate is such a workaholic hard-worker and barely stops to eat what I pack for him, he wouldn't take the time to go buy something so he would go hungry all day!! Men?!?! It seriously saves so much time doing it the night before so I don't know why I just don't do it! I just get lazy @ night. Well I am going to start and hopefully stick with it!

Meet my pregnancy goal
A fellow blogger, Kristin, did this goal during her pregnancy and I thought it was so great that I wanted to do it during mine. The day I found out I was pregnant, I started. I was about 3 days shy of being 5 weeks pregnant so I made the goal of doing 10 miles a week for a total of 350 miles during my pregnancy. I like to run and did it regularly before my pregnancy so I thought that 350 of walking, jogging and elliptical shouldn't be a problem. So far I have done mostly walking. I have done a total of 125.61 (as of 1/1/13) miles since September 28, 2012. I am still on pace of about 10 miles a week and really hope that this goal is still attainable later in my pregnancy!

Become more organized

This whole 'nesting' thing is so awesome! I have bags ready for Goodwill and feel like how house is becoming so organized. I want to continue to improve. I don't like being at work thinking about what I need to get done @ home. I want to feel less stress and being more organized will help!

Have a healthy baby

We pray lots for a healthy baby! We pray that everything will go great throughout my pregnancy and that I have a healthy delivery. I'm not sure if this is a 'goal' but it is something BIG happening in 2013 for us so I felt it was necessary to mention!