Spiritual
- Daily Devotional: Read The One Year Bible (I enjoyed reading the Bible in 90 Days, but I would like to slow it down this year!)
- Find a church that is a fit for our family
Marriage
- Read one marriage book a month and put it’s teachings into practice
Health / Personal
- Eat healthfully (more fruits and vegetables, less meat, carbs and sugars)
- Create and maintain a cleaning routine
- Lose 50 lbs (that’s only a pound a week – achievable!)
- Decrease the amount of “stuff” in our home (Purge-A-Palooza 2012! - will talk about that next week)
- Volunteer at the Happy Trails Animal Sanctuary (a monthly commitment)
Financial
- Sponsor a child in need
- When I started making my list of goals in October, as soon as I had this goal listed, a fellow blogger wrote about how she and her family sponsor a child through Compassion. After a lot of research about the ministry, we sponsored a child
- It is our goal to sponsor another child, but this time, through another organization called Amazima.
- Save $5,000 toward a replacement vehicle/maintenance
- Invest 5% of our take-home income into a Roth IRA
- Sponsor a pot bellied pig at Happy Trails Animal Sanctuary
Environmental
- Less pre-packaged food / more cooking from scratch
- Reduce use of paper towels and paper napkins replacing them with cloth
- Lower resource consumption (electric / propane / water)
- Electric use of primary residence over past 12 months=15,298 kWh
- Electric use of the house we own next door over past 12 months=6,876 kWh
- We expect this number to be drastically lower due to the fact that we are no longer heating the shed, which was our pot bellied pig and puppy’s abode last winter
- Install energy-saving power strips throughout home
Gardening & Preserving
- Grow enough tomatoes, green beans, snow peas, squash and green peppers to be used through the fall and winter 2012 and spring 2013
- Can at least 24 quarts of tomatoes (sauces, stewed tomatoes, etc)
- Freeze at least 50 pint-sized bags of vegetables
- Plant at least 3 concord grape vines
