January 2013 Goals

I have started off my new year RIGHT! Here are my goals for 2013. I will say I am doing a  great job on my list of goals for this year. We have decided it is officially time for us to get our home ready to sell. We are still in the beginning phase of decluttering, boxing up, donating and making a pile to sell. It has been refreshing and exhausting at the same time. One thing I have not done a great job at in this home is STAYING organized. I am ready for a new season of my life and have decided to make a HOUSEHOLD binder. I did not come up with it on my own. A friend of mine gave me a few printables for the home including budgeting, grocery lists, pantry and freezer inventories and cleaning daily, weekly and monthly. I will ADMIT this is a little overwhelming for me. 

Some of my new year goals for 2013:

• Declutter and organize each room in house
• Begin a Household Binder and do IT!
• work out 3-4 days a week
• read 2 books 
• complete a 6-12 week bible study at church
• Sell items in garage sale (found a check list)
• Sell home
• Organize new HOME!

A few things to do before we move:

• repaint
• new carpet in entire house
• minor fixings: cabinet knobs, door handles, painting

I am really excited and nervous about this whole ordeal. I love the area we live in but our house is just too small. I pray we find what we are looking for when the time is right (March-June). I would like to sell our home, buy and move into a new home by July 2013. I want to get organized and in before Stephen begins Kindergarten. The market in our area is CRAZY right now because of the thousands of new Exxon employees moving into our area. Houses go quick, especially this house that we want. 

Here is what we have done.

1. Got rid of a couch, reduced us to two couches instead of 3
2. Donated items
3. Boxed up 9 tubs to go in storage

February:

We plan to repaint and re-carpet the house.

March:

Put house on the market.