Domesticated

Before I get into this blog post, I want to start by answering one question: no, I am not pregnant. No nesting here, promise. Good, moving on.

With that being said, in the past weeks I've felt some, shall we call them, domestic urges. With the new year often comes an examination of one's own life, and I've been surprised with my results. I'll admit that I'm not the most traditional wife, and I'm okay with that. Mrs. Cleaver can keep her day job and I'll keep mine.

However, this year, one of my goals will be to spend more time on my family and our home and less time mindlessly browsing the internet and doing other things that don't really matter. I'm even considering going so far as to setting time limits for certain activities and cutting myself off. We'll see how this manifests, but some of the things I'm hoping to spend more time on include:

• Cleaning. Self-admittedly, I'm not the tidiest person. But I do love when things are clean and organized. I'm hoping to set some sort of chore cleaning schedule for us and stick to it. Thrilling, I know.
• Cooking. I don't hate to cook, but I don't love it either. It can be really hard to become motivated to cook when your other half is so good at it, but I'd like to like it. It's better for our bellies and our wallets. Plus I'm pretty sure it can be fun too. Hoping to find out!
• Budgeting. Once upon a time, we were overly organized about our budget but we've slowly found other, more exciting things to do (surprising, I know). I thought tracking every single penny on a weekly or even daily basis was overkill, but let me tell you, it works. There's no better way to cut unnecessary spending than by actually paying attention. That and couponing.
• Reconnecting. If you haven't noticed, I've been a little busy lately. The truth is, between running a million half marathons and learning Portuguese, I'll continue to be pretty busy. But that doesn't mean that I should spend all of my free time on Facebook. My last official mission is to hang out with the fam and pay more attention to their Love Languages (yes, this includes the pups. call me crazy); watch movies with Casey, take the dogs to the park, all of that good stuff.

I ran this idea past Casey the other day, and despite the fact that one can't really complain about these resolutions, he was quick to point out that people need to wind down. And sometimes that involves "meaningless" things like killing an hour on Facebook. My hope is for any of these items to become more apart of that process than things involving a computer. I could also stand to read a bit more.