2012 Wishes & Goals

I’m going to keep the happy cooking attitude and hope that it continues to pay off. -Maybe even open a cook book! Living on the edge!
Stay in shape (counting on the Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction staying away) and quickly go back to my ideal weight after the pregnancy. Everyone who’s read this blog for 2 seconds knows that I’m not a big fan of pregnancy (just the result) so I’m looking forward to getting my body back.
Prioritize personal time so my creativity doesn’t die and I end up going insane. More time for music, reading, photography, portfolios, blogging and personal projects. This means that I need to improve my time management skills (Sarai wrote a pretty cool post about this). I’m already a laundry ninja and a planning champion when it comes to parenting and family life but I need to get better at prioritizing personal time so I can reach my goals. Kev always says “go for it” and makes room in his/our schedule but I’m a big family person so I always end up spending what time I have with Kev and Willow Ava. I just need to realize that sometimes it’s actually better to go and do something for yourself. This will reflect back on my family when they get a more happy, healthy mom/me back. I have more energy and I’m actually more present in the moment when I’ve made time for Me and my work.
I need to stop postponing, prioritize better, take action and get things done!

On an end note I wish for a fantastic 2012 where we will welcome our second child into the world in May.

2011 Wishes & Goals > My 2011

1 Comment / Jan 01.12 / Events / by Nina Amelia

My 2011

Ever since we became parents in 2010 life has sped up to 10 x the normal pace. Dude, it’s true; When you have kids you DO get old.

And not because it’s exhausting in the most wonderful way but because of the fact that every time you blink once; BAM! There goes a whole week. And what do you know, there goes 2011!? “Honey, are you sure that Christmas is next week? I mean THE Christmas? And where did you put the baby? Oh, never mind. She just walked by me and said Hi.” I can’t even begin to recap how much has happened this year and how much I’ve already forgot. I feel completely senile as I’m sitting here, going though my calendar and all of my posts from 2011 but the funny part is that I’m so much more entertained when I read about some of the crazy shit that’s been going on in our lives. For example I totally forgot about the day the laws of psychics discontinued and some dude’s kid sneezed 5 feet up and into my mouth. Priceless memories..

My 2011 looked a little like this..;

I managed to once again neglect this blog so that 2011 goal about pulling my ass together didn’t exactly work out. I will try again this year and hopefully you guys (the 3 of you) will continue to put up with me.
I spent about half of the year on maternity leave and I was definitely going a little crazy at some points.
The lack of ability to drink coffee (hi, post-preggy hormones!) resulted in me taking up my old coke habit but I managed to drop it as well as the last baby weight, a 2011 goal, and I kept up my training schedule.
I did actually get better at ignoring my inner control/neat freak, dropping everything, letting go and just enjoying time with Willow. I’ll continue to try to improve this.
I didn’t get The Remote so I am going to save up for it. What I did get is a deeelicious backpack for all my photography gear from Kev, for my last birthday so no complaints!
If someone asks about my portfolio I have NO IDEA of what they’re talking about. I visited my Flickr on Christmas and saw that the last upload I had was from before Willow was born. HOW SAD IS THAT. That being said, the portfolio is actually in the works. I “only” have to make time for the final touches but the orders for pictures come first so. Yeah. I wished for more time for photography. I didn’t get it. But I got more time with the man I love and that’s priceless.
On August 10th we had to call it an end for our pup Nico. I had a hard time getting over the fact that I had to take his life. I still do.
The night after we lost grandma Maja.
The week after that I tested positive and we had confirmation that we had succeeded in getting pregnant with our second little Miracle!! Sadly Maja didn’t live to enjoy the news.
We took another crazy ride in November when Willow was diagnosed with asthma and my father in-law was diagnosed and then undiagnosed with cancer.
In December we took our first trip to Egypt and got some much needed sunshine!
I got a little less shitty at the whole cooking thing. Well, at my attitude at least. And we put a stop to the food waste we had. YAY!