Planning

I am not one for planning. It isn't that I don't like planning or appreciate a well thought-out organized event. I have just never been the type of person to do it myself. This is something that I would prefer to change to some extent. I wouldn't like having every moment planned though. Let's face it, that is just asking for disappointment. Perhaps why I have never bothered with it much in the past because I know that life rarely goes as planned so I just became a "fly by the seat of my pants kinda gal."

Around the Holidays though Ben and I always seem to have the same problem. Where are we spending the holidays and who are we seeing when and so forth. Things are usually decided last minute which only adds to the stress of the holidays. That definitely needs to change. Plans like that are good I've decided.  

Anyway, in addition to the vacancy notice that I gave The Waiting Place a few weeks ago, I have started making plans for the new year. I'd like to find some kind of dance class for Hope, although I am not convinced that she will actually participate. She told me that she just wants to have a dance class in her room. :) I am planning on taking the girls swimming and eventually giving them swim lessons so that by summer time they are more comfortable in the water so that we can be frequent pool goers when it gets hot. I am also planning on taking the girls to story time at the library and I am still looking for fun cheap things to do with them during the week. I think if we stay relatively busy and have things to look forward to that will lessen the difficulty of some of the other changes I am planning on making. I'd like to have some kind of craft to make a couple times a month. Having a creative outlet is really helpful for me. I'd also like to take some guitar lessons...but let's not get ahead of ourselves. These are really just random thoughts I am recording for the sake of journaling and to remind myself of what I am expecting myself to do this coming year.

Because I didn't have much planned the past couple of weeks, a lot of "just hanging out" was done.