Fun or Family objectives – GRATEFUL KAE

Next up, my third area, FUN or FAMILY objectives! A little bit of a mish-mash right here, however I needed to stay to 4 whole domains, so I put the “Fs’ collectively. 🙂

Fun or Family:

Main Goals:

1. Try 5 new eating places with Ivan.

We have had this one on the listing for a few years now, and haven’t executed on it! In equity, now we have gone to approach greater than 5 new eating places should you rely after we journey. ha.

But there are lots of GREAT native eating places within the downtown Madison space (and past) that we by no means go to. Or have by no means even tried. Seriously, inside ~20 minutes from my home there are actually dozens of eating places.

And we go to the identical.previous.locations. on a regular basis! Which typically, we love! Most of the time, we aren’t searching for an exciting new journey. We’re just a bit drained and need to hang around and catch up and chat and eat our usual favorites with none effort.

BUT, selection is the spice of life, as they are saying. I’m beginning to really feel like we’re possibly in a little bit of a “rut” however are calling it a “routine”.

I feel happening at the very least 5 (this appears like a realistically low bar to fulfill) extra intentional dinner dates- at new to us places- will sprinkle some extra memorable evenings into our 12 months.

And I’ve excellent news! We have our first one on the books. We have a reservation at Osteria Papavero on Saturday night time. Our new-ish neighbor bartends there on Saturday nights and he and his spouse raved concerning the meals. He reserved a spot on the bar for us, so bonus- we’ll get to talk with him and get to know him a bit extra, too! Should be enjoyable! 🙂

2. Help Ethan by way of the school exploration and software course of.

One of these objectives that just about has to occur, however I needed to listing it it as a result of it is going to probably take up a great quantity of our time or at the very least psychological power this 12 months!

We’re planning to get a few excursions scheduled for this spring (added that to my Q1 objectives, to ensure I could be off work/ accessible as wanted).

3. Plan one household enjoyable factor every season (e.g. a present, outing, biking, and so forth.)

It appears unattainable when the children are younger and you might be collectively all.the.rattling.time, however now in highschool, we’re discovering it NOT EASY to have plenty of actual, high quality time collectively. They have sports activities, college, jobs, buddies…we regularly don’t have spontaneous, massive open slews of time collectively accessible anymore.

So, I’d prefer to be intentional about planning in a number of issues, to at the very least assure some enjoyable instances, all collectively. (And be sure that we permit the “2 weeks in advance notice” that their jobs require for asking off, if wanted! Grr that’s annoying to work round.)

I’m not counting this, however we did all exit to a film collectively over New Year’s weekend, to Jack Black’s Anaconda. It was so enjoyable! We additionally simply celebrated a belated household Christmas reward change with my dad and mom this previous weekend (and all watched playoff soccer collectively), however I’m additionally not counting that. 🙂

Bonus Fun or Family Goals:

1. Read the following Harry Potter ebook (#4!) and watch the film. I learn the first 3 in 2025 (for anybody new right here, this objective was kicked off by our journey to London final March and desirous to at the very least begin studying a number of HP books/ see the films earlier than going to the Warner Bros Studio tour!). Book #4 is ginormous and I really introduced it residence from the library as soon as this fall, however then my complete “crazy travel season” began and let’s simply say, that ebook doesn’t journey nicely. haha. I need to decide this again up now, although!

2. Watch a Spanish TV sequence. There’s a sequence on Netflix concerning the lifetime of Mexican singer Vicente Fernandez which I assume is in Spanish?? I do know a few of his music and I’ve scrolled previous it many instances, considering it seemed attention-grabbing. Bonus, Spanish listening apply. 🙂

3. Read a ebook in Spanish. I meant to do that final 12 months, and didn’t. I must determine at the very least one good choice and request it from the library!

4. Order a gospel piano ebook, together with a great association of How Great Thou Art. I really like that tune (and I really love plenty of previous gospel songs). I’ve had the thought for years that I’d prefer to be taught a pleasant piano association of it!

5. Do my Christmas puzzle! I obtained an excellent cool Christmas puzzle as a present I feel final 12 months, and I’ve by no means performed it!! I need to do it. (Part of the problem is that in the course of the holidays our sunroom table- which might be an ideal “puzzle doing” spot (if I commonly did puzzles, lol)- homes my mild up Christmas village. So the desk is unavailable! I might positively do it on our basement rec room bar, although.)

6. Play a recreation with one of many boys at the very least 3x. We are usually not actually a giant “game family”. BUT, now we have a lot of video games within the hallway recreation closet. (The boys positively used to actually like video games, and possibly nonetheless do. We used to play video games very often.) Also, there are a number of video games in there that may in all probability be much more enjoyable now with almost-adult children (versus… Candyland)! I feel this may be a enjoyable, low stakes household exercise to revive at times.

7. Bake one thing enjoyable every quintile. I’m not an enormous baker, however I like to bake, sometimes. There are additionally a number of baked items that I do know Ivan likes lots, however I hardly ever make them! I don’t must bake each week, however I’d prefer to bake one thing tasty at the very least a number of instances per 12 months. Could be a mixture of previous favorites and a pair new recipes! Of course, that is additionally an effective way to lean into the altering seasons in Wisconsin.

That’s all for Fun or Family! I feel these really feel reasonable but enjoyable.

Speaking of enjoyable, I’m loving this new light I obtained for the toilet. I have a tendency to make use of our basement/ visitor lavatory to bathe within the morning (Ivan hogs our grasp tub on the identical time, so we lastly determined I’d simply take over the basement lavatory.)

The boys had requested for some kind of enjoyable mild for Christmas to make use of of their lavatory once they bathe (to not have the overhead common lights on), and I discovered this little rechargeable, wi-fi dice on-line. I’ve it within the blue mode, however you can also make it any shade and it initiatives “wave-like” pictures onto the ceiling.

It was cheaper to purchase a 2-pack, and I additionally get pleasure from a darker/ extra enjoyable bathe atmosphere, so I obtained one for myself, too! It’s slightly spot of pleasure in my mornings, now. 🙂

Daily Gratitude:

I’m grateful for some open house this week to work on some “deep work” initiatives (at work) that had been unattainable final week with all of the post-holiday craziness! I’ve been utilizing my Forest app for actually targeted periods and it has felt so good. (I really like the white noise choices! And the little tree that grows…)

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