So, every year we talk about things that we want to change from the previous year, but there was actually a lot I loved about 2010! Aaron and I got started with all of our remodeling work on the house and I really love that it is starting to take shape as a place that feel like home. No one has had major health issues (except that Nik got his tonsils out), we still have our jobs, and the car that is paid off lasted another year! :-)
That being said, it was a difficult year with Baylee - 13 is a tough age for girls and it makes it worse when you have a split family and are hearing different messages from both sides. As for her ADD, we increased her medication closer to the suggested dosage which has helped some, and moved her into a charter school; extra face time with teachers, increased accountability for her actions, and being able to carry her backpack to classes has been incredible so far. But she is still so sneaky and deceitful, which is hard to deal with. Anything we tell her not to do (going into our room, taking our things, eating in her room, etc.), she automatically tries to sneak around and do. No idea how to stop that, but at least she is really bad at it so we always know when she has been at it!!
As for 2011, these are things that I would like to accomplish:
I would like to finish school. I would like to start taking better care of me, by exercising regularly (by myself if I have to), and by calming down, de-stressing, and not taking it all so seriously. I would like to spend more time doing fun stuff with the kids, including taking our first real family vacation. And most of all: I would like to make my relationship with Aaron a bigger priority - a great start would be reinstituting date night and not letting anything get in the way of our spending that time together.
