2014 Goals

• get back to blogging!!!

Hi! Here's a quick list of some of my goals for the coming year...both personal ones and home projects we'd like to tackle. Maybe now that Maura is in pre-school two mornings a week (she had her first day on Tuesday and loved it!) and Ian is sleeping through the night (just started a couple of weeks ago after some sleep training), I'll be able to get some stuff done around here:)

Home Projects:

• convert family room to playroom and thus living room to family room
• add mud room like area to kitchen
• finish Maura's big girl room
• create gallery wall above stairs with new and old family pics
• replace carpet on stairs with wood
• redo master bedroom 
• paint Gram's bow front dresser (finally!)
• stamp dining room curtains with block from Brimfield

{I bought a carved wooden design that was used for block printing in Pakistan at the Brimfield Antique Show this fall...I'd love to use it to stamp these drapes in our dining room...I hand-stamped the curtains in Ian's nursery last spring - it was so super fun and easy to do, just time consuming!}

Personal:

• learn how to use my DSLR in manual mode
• make a Blurb book of all our photos from 2013
• start exercising again
• go on a real family vacation

{our first and only road trip as a family of four....to my good friend's wedding in NY...here we are cruising the "Walkway Over the Hudson"}