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So I am finally updating these!

Crafty: Learn brioche knitting, make a garment for me, and get and keep my stash updated on Ravelry.
Currently 2 out of 3 are done. I am finishing up my first brioche project. And I finished my vest!!! Now I just need to update my stash...before more yarn comes in.

Mom: Try new activities with kiddo and stay patient as he tries new things. And to try and leave my phone alone when I am having Bobby specific time.
Um, does potty training count as a new activity? I say yes! Since January, kiddo is now peeing in the potty very regularly, will help with both getting dressed and undressed. I did take him to a faerie/fantasy festival, which he thoroughly enjoyed. I have been better with the phone, if kiddo just wants to play by himself, then I have been pulling out my knitting.

Financial: Try to pay off another student loan this year. ($5k)
So I have refinanced my student loans so now I have 1 big one vs 6 smaller ones. I have pay off $500 of the principal so far this year, I need to deposit the check I got when I payed them off at the old bank and put that money towards loans. The app I am using to save has pulled just over $400 so far.

Personal: Start exercising again (running or working out at least once a week, complete the plank challenge (phone app)).
This one hasn't really happened. I should try again. Though now that the weather is warmer, Kiddo and I have been taking more walks and doing more outside things.

So crafty one is 66% complete, Mom has been happening but I need to come up with more adventures, Financial, still trying to pay off 5K this year though we will see how close I can get and the personal has been a flop. Not everything, but I still have more then half the year to go.

Crafty: Learn brioche knitting, make a garment for me, and get and keep my stash updated on Ravelry.

So I have cast on the Vertex Vest (which is for me). Ravelry stash is updated except for new yarns from January.

Mom: Try new activities with kiddo and stay patient as he tries new things. And to try and leave my phone alone when I am having Bobby specific time.

I don't think we did anything new with kiddo this month. However I started doing more play dough time with him which has been fun. Phone usage varies depending on how touched out I am.

Financial: Try to pay off another student loan this year. ($5k)

So there has been changes here. I decided to try and refinance my loans (ugh) and my application got accepted (yay!). This means that by the end of February instead of having 6 loans, I will only have 1 loan. The repayment period is 10 years which means I will be done paying these off before kiddo goes to college. So 10 years to pay off $40,000. I would love to get that down to $35,000 by the end of the year.

Personal: Start exercising again (running or working out at least once a week, complete the plank challenge (phone app)).

This has been the biggest ~~fail~~ stuggle. I was doing really good for the first week of January but then it fell off. I am doing a group thing via FB starting Sunday and I hope that will get me back into being active.

Overall, Nothing completed but I have made visible progress in 2 out of 4. I think for the Mom goals I need to decide on a thing I want to do every month with the kiddo. That way it have something measureable.

If I write these down, then I am more likely to do them. I know the new year is full of people trying to make huge changes.

Crafty: Learn brioche knitting, make a garment for me, and get and keep my stash updated on Ravelry. Brioche is just so pretty I want to learn a new skill. Making something bigger for myself then just hats/shawls. I have a pattern and yarn for this picked out. Stash updating is so that I can keep track of what I have and try and use stash yarn before buying new yarn.

Mom: Try new activities with kiddo and stay patient as he tries new things. And to try and leave my phone alone when I am having Bobby specific time. Patience is one thing that I am still working on. Bobby has really enjoyed helping out in the kitchen and while it makes things take about twice as long and includes more clean up time, it is important for him. The phone thing is part of my quest to not be so screen dependent.

Financial: Try to pay off another student loan this year. ($5k) This is probably going to be the hardest and most boring one. I am trying a well recommended app to help me pull out little bits of money to see what I can save. Even still finding 5k in just one year when I am making less then 50k a year will be a challenge.

Personal: Start exercising again (running or working out at least once a week, complete the plank challenge (phone app)). So this is not about me losing weight, though I won't be adverse to that. It is more about getting my fitness level back up. The periods where I was running consistently or even semi-consistently, made me feel so much better about my body in both look and ability. So yeah. I am hoping between couch to 5k, and the musical inspired workout program, I can keep up with this. The plank challenge app is just something that I found that is something I can easily do after putting kiddo to bed or even if I don't make it to a full workout.

So that is what I am currently working on. I am going to try and give at least monthly updates so keep myself responsible.

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