Resolutions reviewed
You know, I think new year’s resolutions are a good thing. I don’t think it matters whether you make them at new year, but it’s just a handy marker in the calendar to think about whether life is going in the direction you’d like it to and step in to try and change things a bit to aim for your goals. I think you need to have some goals or else you just float along either not achieving what is actually important to you because you’re swept along in everyday life and don’t stop to think about it or you get self satisfied. Of course you are likely to change ideas as the year progresses and different things come up, but at least you had some aims. So this is a round up of last year’s resolutions. I may write new ones for this year on the blog or I may not - haven’t decided yet. Not sure I can write 101 at the right kind of tickoffable level to do the 101 in 1001 though 
5 personal goals for this year
Write the articles I’ve got in mind in my head but haven’t got around to committing to paper/computer - I did write the one article that was bugging me, there are still more I could get down on paper though, but that will probably always be the case, so I will call this one completed.
Find something to do just for me, just because I want to - hmm, got part way to making this happen and then gave up. But at the moment I’m playing ATITD3 and enjoying zoning out in that, and it’s just for me.
Reply to emails as they arrive - stop procrastinating - failed on this one, but it’s still a goal. I either reply immediately or else emails just move on down the inbox to be forgotten until I guiltily consult my flagged emails.
Fill in L’s baby book before I forget stuff - yes, well, hmm…
Keep on top of the ABM website / emails - didn’t manage this and I’ve decided it’s time to move on, so I’m currently waiting for a replacement / to hand everything on. There’s no point trying to keep enthusiastic about doing it when I’ve lost inspiration.
5 home ed goals for this year
With M, pick some projects to work on and make something of them - even finish some of them! We have done some longer project type things together this year. Still working on finding what inspires M. Doing history topics with narrations of various sorts and doing lapbooks and FIAR has worked well last year, so we will continue to include those.
Write an ed phil and in the process review what we’re doing and if our priorities are being met - hmmm… well it’s written in note form but ended up being more philosophical than I expected and I got stuck between what I think is an education and what I think an LA might find acceptable in an ed phil, so although the main aim of writing it was for us, I got side tracked. Must finish it!
Build up a home ed network for us where we are moving to - getting there on the workshops and educational opportunities front, the social groups side of things is hard going for several reasons but mostly the geography of Norfolk and me having children of such different ages.
Use the BA science things and do science more often because M loves it when we do We’ve done more science this year, using the BA scheme and other ideas, and it’s something M has been pretty much always enthusiastic about. I plan to keep this up along similar lines.
Start fitting in more German and more music The German has got nowhere but music has improved because we’ve started going to the home ed group music lessons. German is such a silly thing to not get on with though, given a BiL in Germany, so need to get inspired on this this year.
5 family goals for this year
Eat all our meals together at the dining table Yes, we are eating most meals in the dining room and I would like us to keep this up.
Start a weekly family night in with games or a family film Ths fell by the wayside, so is a goal for 2007.
Invite friends to visit and fit in visiting them too Not enough of this done, though fitting it in proved harder than expected - I think with A working days all the time now so weekends are fuller of family things.
More geocaching than we’ve fitted in this yearWe have done more geocaching recently.
Explore and do things together at weekends - don’t waste them on shopping and TV I think we have succeeded at this too.
5 house and home goals for this year
Stick to the routines we decide on until they are routine and then maintain them, especially for keeping on top of housework Housework routines work well until I get bored or we have some kind of holiday and then they take forever to get back into the swing of.
Involve M in a way that helps him feel useful, needed and important, but not put upon Need to work harder on the appreciating him part I think this year.
Work on settling in to our new house and make it feel like home Yes, I think we are settled in now.
Plan and develop new garden with A (and allotment? must enquire once we’re settled) and grow bedding plants and veggies We did lots of gardening and the garden is transformed from what it was, but there are always new plans LOL.
Sort out an organic veg box and regularly cook home made healthy meals We were getting a weekly box of organic veg until a couple of weeks before Christmas when the farmer packed it in - need to find another scheme.
