Happy Monday and Happy New Year friends! Here we go…2022! I am always pretty ready for a new year and clean slate for my goals! Last year I created a manifestation board on Pinterest and wrote down 6 affirmations and manifestations that I did a good job of repeating to myself every day until we moved in the middle of the year and I got way too pregnant and way too tired to think about anything. This year, I am doing a combo of goals and manifestations!
I turn 35 this year…in about 65 days, not that I’m counting or anything! Assuming we are able to travel, we booked a family vacation – our first time flying in about 3 years and I am SO excited to go somewhere warm with the kids! I’m also treating myself to something special for my birthday! I don’t need an excuse to treat myself, but a milestone birthday is definitely a good reason! The wishlist of bags is long though…
I also want to finish off a few more rooms in our house! This just means putting the final little touches like artwork and changing out lighting, getting photos framed and hung would also be great. Our dining room and living room are 85% there so that should be easily done throughout the year! We also have a few home projects on the list like adding a staircase runner and refinishing the deck! We are trying to think of home projects by quarters so those two are towards the back half of 2022. First half of 2022 will be the easy stuff!
I have this innate feeling that I need to declutter! I started right before the New Year and my hope is to go through and basically Marie Kondo everything in the house! I feel like the playroom is getting a little out of control as is my closet! I hang onto clothes I should have really let go years ago and I do the same with purses; shoes however, I have no trouble throwing away! This is the year that I streamline my wardrobe and purchase clothes that I am excited to wear! Really tired of looking at my wardrobe and complaining that I have nothing to wear – clearly not the case, I’m just not excited or inspired by anything in my closet.
On the health and wellness front – it’s simple, I want to take care of and be kind to myself! This is going to be the year that I start playing tennis again! I grew up playing competitive tennis and I so miss that part of myself! I have talked about picking tennis back up for years and this will be the year I finally do it! Even if I play once a month, I just want to get back into it! I also started going to the chiropractor after having Mason because my hip/pelvis was out of alignment after birth and was causing me so much pain, I could barely walk for nearly 3 weeks. After a few weeks of going twice a week, I now go once a month for maintenance and I have never felt better about my posture! That little thing for myself has really changed my outlook on the kind of self-care I want to have in my life. Raising a daughter, I want Sophia to have a good association with her body and the way she sees herself – for that reason I am striving to be so much more cognizant of how I speak about my own body not only in front of her!
As it relates to motherhood every year I want to be present and sometimes I do a good job and others times not so much! My biggest goal while playing with Sophia and Mason is to put the phone away as much as possible and just play. When Sophia says, mommy put your phone away – it breaks my heart a little because the last thing I want is for her to remember her childhood with me always being on my phone! As much as possible I will be leaving the phone in the other room and everything else can wait!
Truly my only hope & wish for this next year is to just keep moving forward. I have had analysis by paralysis for what feels like 2 years like so many of you and that’s because it feels like every decision comes with the weight of putting ourselves and family in danger. I hope to release a little of that anxiety this year and try not to overanalyze every thing.
What are some of your hopes & goals for this year?
I love that you said hopes! Hope is everything. Yay on the family vacation, you guys will have a ball and cheers to the New Year and turning 35. It’s a very good year!
I turn 35 this year too!! And I hope y’all get to travel–Harrison did surprisingly well flying in October and it was so nice to pretend life was back to normal (minus the reminder because we were wearing masks lol). I still have things I need to do to this house to finish it out and we’ve lived here almost 7 years….eek!
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I lol’d when you said the wishlist of bags is long though… Life is short, get the bag. 😉
I totally get the putting the phone away part. Rory is on his all the time because of his job as a mortgage loan officer. People are calling, emailing and texting all the time. My girls call us out on it too. I didn’t know you played tennis. I do hope you get into it again. I hope you get to go on your family vacation. And share what bags you are eyeing!
I hear you the list of bags is definitely long! But I can’t wait to see which of the many you decide to go with. I am also with you on putting away the phone. I do my best to stay away from my devices when my son is home but I am human and fail too often. I just wish blogging weren’t so ridiculous these days. Actually blogging is not the problem, it’s IG! Anyway, take me with you on your vacation! Happy New Year Biana and wishing you a beautiful week ahead!
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I love that you used to play tennis! B and I both played tennis, too, although, I only played competitively for a year. We all love it, though, and the kids love it, too, so I think we’ll probably end up playing a lot more tennis this year, too. And I totally feel you on the analysis paralysis. Times are SO hard, and I’m praying this is the year I can let go of more of my anxiety, too. I was doing so well with my anxiety before Covid came along.
Also, I had some bad mis-alignment of my pelvis after I had Jacob and I had pain for YEARS that nobody could figure out how to fix. I finally started seeing a pelvic physical therapist a few years ago, and she fixed me right away. It was like magic. It turned out that my sacrum (the back part of your pelvis) had gotten pushed back during childbirth, and all she had to do was gently push it back. It didn’t hurt or anything, but it completely realigned my pelvis and hips and all of my pain disappeared after that. Before that, I was having tons of gait issues, SI joint issues, and I couldn’t walk long distances or run at all because my hips and legs would hurt so bad and it was all because that sacrum was slightly pushed back. Just wanted to let you know that in case you are having something similar. I saw regular physical therapists, pain doctors, orthopedists, chiropractors, neuro doctors, etc. and had so many tests run and nobody could figure out what was causing my pain. All it took was to find that pelvic physical therapist. She was truly a Godsend because she gave me my life back!
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Oh thats so good to know! Thankfully mine wasnt out of alignment – it was mostly my hips on the side that I got my epidural on, but thankfully all good now!
I didnt know you played competitive tennis!!! 🙂 You know I’m a tennis girl.
Love new years with the push to start new goals or start again on ones that get lost along the way.
You have a beautiful family. Wishing you a wonderful new year and hope you get that family getaway.
I hope you have a wonderful birthday and you are able to travel like you hope! 🙂
It sounds like you have a lot of great goals for the new year!
Hope that the first week of 2022 is going well for you 🙂
Love that you are going to start playing tennis again! I am always careful how I speak in front of Zoe about myself or even the look I give myself in the mirror. And we are guilty of being on our phones a lot too, especially working from home all the time. It is like the work day never ends, and she has definitely called me out on it before. I try to leave it somewhere else if we are playing a game or something
I feel like putting the finishing touches on our house is the thing I just never get around to doing! Maybe you’ll inspire me to get moving on it! I love the idea of starting to play tennis again. I’ve thought about that myself.