Thursday, January 6, 2011

New Year New Schedule

As I have already stated, I am a stay at home mom, so my weekly schedule goes off of my husbands schedule. Well as of Jan 1, he has a new schedule so I am now trying to adjust my schedule. He used to work a rotating schedule of Mon-Fri one week and Tues-Sat the next. Now he is working a rotating schedule of Mon-Sat one week and Tues-Fri the next. On the old schedule he had a three day weekend every other week, so we would use that weekend to go grocery shopping and other errands together mainly because we live 45 minutes for town so it was easier. Now I am trying to go the grocery store on his Mon-Sat week on Tuesday by myself with princess and its not easy. I have to make sure its not during a naptime and that I can go and be back before she needs her next feeding too. I am doing this to make it easier on my husband, to limit the junk food that comes into the house, and so we can have a little more quality family time. I will still have us all going shopping for gifts and such together tho as that is fun shopping. I'm also tryin to make myself a rotating 4 day cleaning schedule so that I make sure to get the house cleaning done every week when my husband is working. I am also trying to make meal plans every two weeks so that I am not buy extra things (unless on an awesome sale and I know we will use) to try to help the grocery bill stay down and to see if I can make a budget for our food that I can stick to. On top of all this I decided to make weekly/monthly goals for myself rather than one big new years resolution because there are so many things I want to change and accomplish with having our princess in our lives. We also decided that we would like to pay off some debt so that we can sell our house and buy a new (or new to us) home closer to town in a few years instead of our original plan to build on our property we live on now. I am helping the debt by not purchasing anything unneeded or purchasing things clearanced that I know we will need later.  Its a new year with a lot of new changes in our lives and I really hope we get it figure out quickly. I will post all of my schedules and plans when I get them figured out. My ulitamate goal for myself and my family is that we lives healthier lives and that we get to a point of our only debt be our house.

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