The List

So… it’s been a while… 12 whole months in fact since I have logged on and updated my blog. I have started writing things, but I haven’t posted. I think there are a couple of reasons… the biggest one being that we are living through a global pandemic and it felt a bit trivial and redundant to spend time writing on here and either pretending life was still grand and we were doing super fun things or pretending to have any kind of wisdom to offer anyone at the moment. I have also spent most of 2021 growing a baby which is hard work so I guess that may have contributed too. Regardless, here I am again… between 3hourly feeds bringing another set of lists for the year.

It is ambitious to you know… make plans… especially after the last two years, but if you don’t hope and make plans you just despair, so we are going with plans, plans for fun, plans for adventure and plans for some normality.

I know this time last year I was waxing lyrical about the potential of 2021… and I have learnt my lesson… just like every other year, this one comes with no guarantees other than it will be its own mixture of good and bad, hard and easy… and that despite the challenges the world will bring, we will continue to make the most of it. Plus we will have the challenge and fun that learning how to be a family of four will bring and the fun of another additional list for her.

I am sure you probably know the drill by now… but just in case… you can get up to speed on all the previous lists here: 2006, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 & 2021. So, this year’s lists, just like last year’s, contains some safe options and some that would perhaps currently be considered wishful thinking. Isaac’s list is much the same… although this year his has more fun and than developmental milestones, and we have a brand new list for Tilly, but her’s is mostly developmental goals so I remember to document them. This year I am hoping to find a better balance between documenting and just enjoying and hopefully actually blogging. Eventually, I might even get around to writing about what we crossed off last year. Anyway, here are the lists…

My List

1. Bring Matilda Home
2. Try some shampoo concentrate
3. Sew a piece of clothing
4. Read 12 books
5. Use the overlocker
6. Get my inbox back to 0
7. Keep my inbox under control
8. Get my covid booster
9. Exercise at least 3 times a week
10. Take two kids out by myself
11. Start walking regularly again
12. Go for a run by myself
13. Return to Parkrun
14. Go to the movies
15. Travel somewhere fun in Victoria
16. Sleep in the backyard or go camping for real
17. Use the fire pit
18. Get my step average back up
19. Have a child free night
20. Blog at least 15 times
21. Organise primary school for Isaac
22. Call/update our grandparents regularly
23. Take a picture everyday
24. Keep working on the photo storage
25. Attend an exercise class
26. Make a costume for Isaac
27. Plan our meals again
28. Read to Isaac and the baby everyday
29. Go on a date with Isaac
30. 6 dates with Dave
31. Brunch with 10 different people
32. Don’t over book myself
33. Sing at church
34. Hear some live music
35. Swim at the beach
36. Sing some carols
37. Take some family photos
38. Visit all three zoos
39. Try 4 new restaurants
40. Learn how to be a better ally to my Aboriginal and Torres Strait brothers and sisters
41. Walk from cape schanck to bush ranger bay
42. See a waterfall
43. Seriously finish and print Isaac’s logs
44. Fish and chips on the beach at the beginning of the year and at the end of the year
45. Visit Inverloch
46. Winter get away
47. Take Isaac swimming just for fun
48. Make some new play dough
49. Put my clothes away within two days of them being washed
50. Fix the storage in Isaac’s room
51. Run down under
52. Bake some meringues
53. Bake a sponge cake
54. Get some new glasses
55. Get a skin check
56. Attempt to get overseas
57. Play a board/card game
58. No Facebook or Instagram after 10:30pm
59. Keep my car free of rubbish
60. Do the 2020 & 2021 scrap books
61. Go through and sort Isaac’s clothes
62. Go to at least one of Dave’s school concerts
63. Entertain more guests
64. Go to the redwoods
65. Have a cup of tea in the park
66. Get a haircut
67. Update the photo wall
68. Visit 3 new playgrounds
69. Go to a museum
70. Have a picnic
71. Get a solid state hard drive
72. Have some fairy floss
73. Remember the big things
74. Use my gratitude diary
75. Visit the library
76. Making some dumplings
77. Finish the new laundry storage
78. Have a real iced coffee from a cafe
79. Wardrobe clean out
80. Eat a vegetable from our garden
81. Use my crochet kit
82. Phones away for dinner
83. Have a slurpee
84. Turn the TV off one night a week
85. Have an Isaac decides day
86. Start a new family tradition
87. Have some hot jam donuts
88. Test drive a new car
89. Where some non maternity clothes
90. Learn how to breast feed
91. Have high tea
92. Enjoy some soft cheese and dip with abandon
93. Lie on my stomach
94. Have soft serve ice cream
95. Get a massage
96. Return to playgroup
97. Catch up with my Mother’s group
98. Walk up mount lofty
99. Cook a rack of lamb
100. Re-start my herb garden

So there you go… A brand new list ready to go