Follow along as we rebuild and return to normal after losing our home in a fire

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Thoughts on 2013 and 2014

The best part of 2013
  • Veggiemom - Seeing the big girl learn to love school again after a very difficult 2012-2013 school year and seeing the little girl learn to walk into school on her own
  • The big girl - A trip to Dallas and Great Wolf Lodge
  • The little girl - Great Wolf Lodge and a post-thanksgiving trip with Nana and Granny where she got to make a "wax hand"
The worst part of 2013
  • The fire!!!
Goals/hopes/plans for 2014
  • Veggiemom - 
    • Get our home rebuilt and be wise about money in the process
    • Exercise at least 4 times per week (I'd started doing this a couple of weeks before the fire but haven't since then)
    • Blog about this transition
    • Maintain our current minimalist lifestyle
    • A pipedream...to have enough insurance money leftover to pay off our car
  • The big girl -
    • Have 1st babysitting job
    • Get our house back
    • Start playing more games together as a family
    • More family activities in general
    • Be really nice to enemies
    • Get more info on first dad
    • Sew more...or a lot!
  • The little girl
    • See first families, especially first dad
    • Get more toys and have fun
    • Get a prettier dress
    • Learn to canter jumps
(Can you tell who makes it the hardest to maintain a minimalist lifestyle???)

We're spending this New Years Eve at home together.  We had a yummy dinner with sparkling cider.  We had ice cream.  We've watched movies.  We discussed the things listed above.  We'll probably go to bed long before midnight and hopefully we'll be in the mood to go see Frozen tomorrow.

As the big girl said, this house will never be home but at least we're getting settled into a new normal.

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