Happy 2016! This last year has been amazing, hard, growing, and so happy. We are ready for a new year to grow and learn in. Our theme for our goals this year us clean. We want our home to be in better order and cleaner, we want clean teeth with regular dentist visits, we want clean and healthy bodies, we want "clean" language (basically speaking kindly and being positive!) and thoughts, we want to strive to have a clean car, and basically just help cleanliness be a big part of our habits we form this year.
Our New Years feast was awesome. James loves lamb so that is our new tradition for the eve of a new year. The dish this year was incredible. He stuffed it with olives and herbs and so many yummy things. I made mashed potatoes and corn to go with it. And of course we had our bubbly sparking cider to do cheers to! Jane loves to do cheers! The lamb really did turn out incredible and James said it was the best lamb dish he'd had besides the one we enjoyed in our first anniversary in Jackson. And that was a very upscale restaurant (the blue lion). He did an awesome job cooking that leg of lamb!
Our last outing together was going to a toy store. And dropping off two huge bags of clothes I went through New Year's Eve day to donate to a thrift store. Part of that whole being clean goal ;) is getting rid of excess and clutter. It felt good to just say adios to those items. Jane thoroughly enjoyed the toy store and we got a toy wooden airplane and jacks in the $1-5 section.
Another new tradition we are going to go each New Years is glowsticks!! We turned all the lights off in the house and played with glowsticks, both kids loved it! And of course the traditional bang pots and pans! Except this year it happened at 7:45, not 12. New Years is a bit different with babies. Now I don't know why I'd stay up that late ever again by choice, oh old age ;).
After Jane went down we enjoyed some cheesecake with orange chocolates. It was decadent and sinful and my last bit of indulgence. My goal is for the month of January to not have any chocolate. And then to try and go a little further and have no sugar. This will be a very difficult goal for me because that is my hurrah victory item: something sweet. And I have a huge sweet tooth. But I really want to be healthier and loose some weight and control that desire. So wish me luck, cause dang this is going to be hard!
Happy new year and happy goals to becoming better people! I am excited to see what this year brings our family.
