2013 New Year's Resolutions

I realize January is half over, but it should say something about my resolve that I'm still committed enough about my resolutions to blog about them! I always have a lot of resolutions/goals for a new year, even though they are often the same goals that I had the previous year. This year I divided them into catchy categories - Faith, Family and Fitness. Here goes...

Faith:

• Complete the Highpoint Priority Time Challenge (Priority time 5 days/week or more) - I've been successful on this so far! It's a small amount of Bible reading each day, plus I'm keeping a journal to try to get something out of what I read. Past years I've tried resolving to read the Bible every day, or read the Bible in a year, but I just read without processing the scriptures or thinking about personal application, so it's just a "checking the box" activity. So far this is going well for me. 
• Join a Sunday School class or small group to develop friendships with other couples - haven't done this yet...
• Pray morning and night (first thing in the morning and last thing before bed) - I had actually forgotten about this one, since I really did write these goals out before the new year. Oops. 

Family:

• Eat a healthy, home-cooked dinner at least 3 times per week. Eat with Justin at the kitchen table. -  We're doing ok. Katelyn can sit in the highchair now, so that helps with the family dinner at the kitchen table. But we have a long way to go. It's SO tempting to eat in front of the TV!
• Read a bedtime story to Katelyn every night - This sounds easy, right? That's what I would have thought before I had a baby. But that means I have to start the bedtime story before she is so hungry and exhausted that she can't sit and happily listen to a story. But not so early that I don't get playtime with her. And that time changes. Every day. And the line between happy, playful baby and exhausted, crying baby is really fine and hard to identify until you've crossed it. We're not doing too well on this one either. 
• Maintain our finances in an organized way and follow a budget - Ha! We have some work to do here!

Fitness and Health:

• Run 20 miles/week - Believe it or not, I haven't come close to doing this. And 20 miles/week really isn't that much for me. 
• Lift weights twice/week - Oops. Haven't started this one yet. 
• Prioritize eating a real-food, plant based diet - I'm still prioritizing it. I REALLY want to do this. Really. But it's SO HARD!!! Maybe this will be my year. 

It sounds like I'm failing miserably, but I'm optimistic that I'll be able to make some of these resolutions into reality this year. I'm looking forward to trying, anyway!