Goals for 2016

I don't really do new year resolutions as I find I never stick to them.

This year I am going to set us some goals to achieve.

Some are personal.  Some are family orientated.  I think all are achievable (with hard work).

Goals for 2016

• Purchase power saving LED lights for the house 
• Put $20 per week away for Christmas time.
• Investigate and seriously consider purchase solar energy and hot water
• Start walking 3x per week again (I haven't been doing this lately)
• Use my roller 5 nights out of 7 (My back muscles are very tight and this helps release them)
• Move our mortgage from ANZ to CUA (there is a story to this which I will write about another time)
• Do more "family outings" with the boys.  

And the biggie:

• Pay $30K off our mortgage this year (including our normal payment)!!! This is about 10K more than our current payments.

I may add to this list as time goes on,

Last year we achieved some great things.

• We adjusted to me working part-time and the loss of income that entailed.  We actually thrived with the amount of extra time I had to cook and plan meals etc.

  

Apple and cinnamon muffins

• We moved the chickens to the side of the house - they now have a big run and it is a much better position for them.  We don't have to worry about the dog getting to them either.  It's a great set up.

Our chicken run down the side of the house

• We got new fences.  Our old ones were falling down terribly.  It has made the place look so great.

• I got my veggie garden happening - it still needs more work but so far so good.  Tomatoes, strawberries, spinach, raspberries and blueberries, mint and passionfruit so far.  Soon I want to get cucumber, lettuce and other veggies in there.

Tomato, spinach and strawberry

Passionfruit, blueberry, strawberry and raspberry

• Got the twins into the intervention class for school preparation.  This was a really difficult programme to get into so I was very happy with this.
• I settled into my new job and love it.  I now feel like I'm part of the furniture :-)

We may have done other things but I can't remember off the top of my head LOL.  Most importantly we had a pretty good year.  There were some sad times - such as Rhys being diagnosed as being on the Autism spectrum (high functioning), which mean't that all of our boys have a diagnosed disability.  Some days are tough, but most are great.  Who doesn't have a tough day every now and again?

There were lots of great times - and that is what is important. Keep 'em coming too!