19 for 2019

It's the new year and I'm Gretchen Rubin-ing it all over the place over here!  Gretchen does a "19 for 2019" challenge where you come up with goals or even just to-do's for the new year.  At some point this "XX for 20XX" is no longer going to work because the lists are starting to get pretty long but I managed to scrape up 19 things I want to do this year.  Wish me luck.

1. Do 5 good form pull ups.  Always on my list since I plateaued at doing 3 like 5 years ago.  Will I do it this year?  Hopefully.  I did get some new assist bands to help me train and I feel like an acrobat, so that is fun.

2. Learn to can, purchase supplies, and try it out with this years' garden spoils.  Salsa?  Spaghetti sauce?  Something.

3. Create a "Foley Family Travels" framed art.  I have a very foggy vision of this but I want something I can update as we go new places.

4. Take someone's "professional" (read amateur) family photos, or (if I chicken out) do my own family's shoot somewhere on location.

5. Sew a dress for Ivy.

6. Put together a reading nook in our currently empty loft.

7. Read 20 books.

8. Read The Book of Mormon.

9. Go to a concert or play (this feels like cheating since I already bought Shawn Mendez and Wicked tickets for 2019 last year...).

10. Never raise my voice.  I think if you never start yelling at your kids, you won't have to stop yelling at your kids? This is a preventative NYR. Heh.

11. Participate in a service project or organize one.

12. Prepare ten family names for the temple.

13. Go one month without sugar (already 6 days in, I am killing this one early on so I can forget about it for the rest of the year).

14. Recycle better.  Buy a new trash can that encourages me to recycle.

15. Insert personal idea here that I won't be publishing on the internet! ;)

16. Hold consistent FHE/Come Follow Me curriculum study.  I'm not super pumped with the kid-friendly-ness of the materials the church gave out, so we're kind of winging this with Ivy.  Today we reenacted Zacharius and Elizabeth and afterward Ivy just said, "Again?" so I guess it's going ok?

17. Plan a night away somewhere.  Park City?  Maybe something fancy but close by.  We'll probably bring Ivy along.

18. Spend less time on social media.  I need to come up with a more measurable plan here, but I'm mostly dropping my night-time use so I can read and do other things.

19. Practice piano more frequently/learn a piece to performance level for church or something.