Saturday, December 8, 2018

Colorado

Well. We're moving to Colorado Springs.
As much as I would like to say I'll be consistent in blogging once we move, I can't make promises.

I know it would be appreciated by family to status updates. But in reality:
1. We'll have new jobs
2. We'll be settling our girls into new day cares and/or schools
3. I still have a semester of master's classes left
4. We'll be renting and looking for new housing. Unless we can sell our house here and buy another one in the next month out there. Just saying that outloud, it sounds laughable.
5. We'll be living it up. I've made a promise to myself that at least once my degree is complete, we're going to have fun. Here it was hard for me to go out on the weekends. My job as a code official made it hard for me to go out. I would always see violations and feel like they needed to be addressed. Hopefully in my new job (huh, it would be nice to have a job offer from somewhere), I won't have the same stress.
We have plans of hiking and other outdoor activities. We'll be living in Olympic City USA. I'm excited for opportunities for the girls such as numerous ice skating rinks. There is so much to explore.

We tell the girls we are going on an adventure. And we are. It's a slightly scary, nerve wracking adventure. But it will be fun, and hopefully full of opportunity.
I'm looking forward to good restaurants, good craft breweries, and the ability to exercise. The last three years I've spent my lunch hours and the time between the girls going to be and my bedtime working on homework. I want my me-time back!

Thursday, January 4, 2018

Reflection on 2017/Life

We accomplished quite a bit in 2017. We started off the year with a new baby and the Hubs worked several days a week on turning our 2-car garage into a pantry plus master suite. Our bedroom is much quieter on the west end of the house since it is farther from the highway and I think we have more insulation in the walls and ceiling than the main house. 
I finished my 3rd and 4th masters classes, and earned As in each class.
A turned 3 in September and after introducing her to the potty chair over a year ago, she finally potty-trained Thanksgiving weekend. She still wears pullups overnight and during naptime, and if we have a long trip to town planned, but is mostly in undies. 
C has 6 teeth (4 on top, 2 on bottom). It seems like she ALWAYS has a cold. She's back on antibiotics again as of yesterday because her runny nose and cough that started 2+ weeks ago hasn't gone away on its own yet. A came down with another cold, too, but has only had it for 2 days or so. (But I'm home with her today because we thought she might have pink eye; her eyes cleared up after she was awake for a bit this morning though) 

When I laid out my goals for 2018, one of the items was budgeting. I may have found a solution. I was using Mint.com, and while I love seeing all my accounts in one place, it wasn't helping me budget. I switched over to You Need A Budget (YNAB). There's a free 34-day trial, and since I'm a student I was able to request an additional year for free. So I'll try it for this year and if it works, I may purchase it next year. I daresay after stressing over money my whole adult life, YNAB makes budgeting fun. Yeah, I know that sounds crazy. 

For the last two weeks I've meal prepped for lunch. This week I focused on packing more veggies, and actually packed so much I couldn't eat everything. I'd have to look back at my planner for last week's lunches, but this week I packed:
morning snack: red grapes, coffee
lunch: carrots, cherry tomatoes and sliced bell peppers with hummus; a wheat wrap sandwich with cream cheese, pesto, an arugula/spinach blend and roast beef; ramen/cabbage slaw 
afternoon snack: Greek yogurt (Aldi has a delicious toasted coconut flavor...) and a piece of good dark chocolate
And I've been tracking my water intake again. It's difficult for me to drink water when it's cold outside. 

Breakfasts this week were wheat pancakes with peanut butter, and strawberries. and of course coffee. (a necessity with sick kids)
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