Apart from a few lettuce plants that I bought on special from Mitre 10 Mega about a month ago I haven’t done anything else towards this goal.

I started off creating my garden diary, dug out the few seed packets I had, saved some margarine and ice-cream containers to sow some seeds in and then my progress ground to a halt. Whenever I plan to weed the vege garden, when DH is home to watch DS, it rains.

What I plan on planting:

• Broccolli
• Capsicum
• Carrots
• Cauliflower
• Lettuce
• Pumpkin
• Sweetcorn

These are things I know we will eat, I’m especially looking forward to growing my own pumpkin. I have visions of pumpkin pies, roast pumpkin and I have a dark chocolate and pumpkin muffin recipe I’m dying to try out.

But none of that is going to happen if I don’t get my A into G and weed the garden, is it?

Eek! It’s been a while since I’ve posted…oops! So what have I been up to in the meantime?

Mission: Weight Loss – Latest weigh in (Monday) I was at 86.5kg so unfortunately didn’t achieve my first goal I know perfectly well why though. I didn’t exercise, I didn’t drink enough water ( so I’m not going very well with that goal either) and I wasn’t tracking what I ate therefore wasn’t holding myself accountable. We had a bad night sleep-wise with DS on Friday night and DH, thinking he was doing something nice (which he was) bought me some cookies & cream ice-cream. It was very nice of him to try and make me feel better when I was feeling a bit “over it” but ice-cream isn’t a good thing to have in the house when I’m feeling drained and a little bit down. Willpower to resist is just something I need to work on I’m afraid.

Mission: Vege Garden – I have started a kind of garden diary in a hardcover book that I have cut & pasted tips and info from old Your Home & Garden magazines that I was clearing out so that I have all the info in one place. Here are photos of some of the pages…

Garden Diary - General info

Garden Diary - Growing from seed

Garden Diary - Herbs

I have also started a page for sustainable gardening, mulching & composting and the first “what to do in” page for Summer/January. The next step is to actually get of my bum and actually weed the garden so I can plant some goodies!

Mission: Organised Home – Yeah this is going to be a loooong term mission I’m guessing. Things I’ve done towards this so far are buy a new bigger box for the Christmas decorations and pack up DS’s clothes he has grown out of. You’ve gotta love plastic storage bins

Anyway must fly the little one (who started crawling as of Monday!) has awoken from his nap.

Ciao for now x

Rather than resolutions I have a list of goals I would like to achieve this year….

• Lose weight – a bit of a cliche I know but after watching the video of Christmas I literally feel sick to my stomach of how big I’ve let myself get. I’ve set lots of mini goals to break up the embarrassingly large number of kgs I need to lose to
• De-clutter the house & be more organised – trying to tidy this house would be so much easier if i didn’t have so much stuff. Whatever can be sold will be listed on Trade Me. Anything in good but non-saleable condition will be going to the Sallies.
• Take better care of my skin – I’m not getting any younger and any day now I’m going to wake up to wrinkles. While I can’t undo the damage that has been done hopefully I can reduce any more damage. Proper moisturising and cleansing routines will need to be put in place.
• Drink more water – this comes in hand with lose weight and taking better care of my skin. It will help me with both, to some it might seem like a bit of an odd goal but it is something I am terrible at.
• Run for 5 mins – this is a starting point. I’m terribly unfit and this is going to be a big challenge for me.
• Paint my nails & toe-nails more often – this is a bit of a light-hearted “to do” item but having painted nails always makes me feel a bit more together. Sort of a look good-feel good thing.
• Plant & maintain a vege garden. I started with a hiss and roar in October, weeded the plot and saved some peas and spring onions that my sister had planted in April. And that was it..and surprise, surprise the weeds grew back.
• Bake and decorate an awesome birthday cake for my little boy’s 1st birthday in May. At the moment I’m thinking ball/round theme – bouncy balls, beach balls, bubbles, balloons etc
• Start photo albums – I’ve got honeymoon photos and lots of souvenirs like ticket stubs and postcards that I want to include in a kind of photo album/scrapbook type thing. I also need to start a photo album of DS’s first year before I get too far behind..again I want it to be a book of mementos as well.
• Use my arts & crafts supplies. I have a whole cupboard full of canvases, beading supplies, card-making/scrap-booking supplies and more. I want to make homemade cards for friends and family, make some new jewellery out of pieces I don’t wear so much anymore and do some paintings for DS’s room.
• Pay off the credit card. Nothing more to say about this one really.
• Put our wedding enlargements into frames. It’s coming up 2 years now and 3/4 have been sitting in the cupboard.
• Make more baby food. I started off when DS was on Stage 1 with pureed fruit and veges but haven’t done anything with meat and vege combinations. I want to be able to use veges from my garden for this too.

That’s all I can think of for now. I may come back to this post from time to time to update and hopefully check off some of the items!

What is on your to do list this year?