January is almost over! Where did the first month of the new year go and what the heck did I do during it? These are all questions I plan to answer next month during my blogging.

Anyway, I was thinking the other night that I might try something new here at WRR: creating an editorial calendar. You see, I'm one of those obsessive-compulsive organizers. You know, everything its a place and a place for everything. No item out of order. It's a blessing and curse - trust me, I know all too well. What I realized recently is that, when it comes to this blog, I am completely all over the place and an editorial calendar could be just what I need.

Funny enough, I create these all the times for my clients and encourage them but I don't know utilize them myself.
I know, I know. But listen, that is all going to change for the month of February. So, I'm proclaiming it here and now: I WILL create an editorial calendar for the month of February and stick with it. As a blogger, editorial calendars are often our lifeline to sanity, and you would think I would have a pretty extensive one but I don't (no shame in my game).

My hope is that it will help me keep in track and task with the content I share with you. Here's wishing me the best!

You can't do goals without doing some goals that focus on your home. My house is about 10 years old now and it's time to start doing some upgrades and repairs to it. In the last year, we have purchased a brand new A/C system, had the roof and gutters repaired, had renovations done to the baby's room, and painted my bedroom and my oldest's room.

I'm pretty happy with where things are but you know me, I always keep an eye on the horizon and my horizon is with fully tricking my house out.

When you're married to an IT guy, please believe your house will rival Best Buy on any given day. We are an Apple-Samsung-Sony family. Trust me, you won't find a PC thing up in here. No sir. Hubby says NO to PCs. LOL I digress...

For 2018, I'm hoping that our budgets will allow us the opportunity to do some much needed work to both the exterior and interior of the house. I don't expect to complete everything, but I do want to at least have a plan (and budget!) outlined for each item.

Here are our home goals:



I'm so over carpet. We probably should have switched it out for hardwoods about 3 years ago but it's never too late to get started. That will probably be the first thing I tackle, while simultaneously having the interior repainted back to all white.

Last year, my husband became obsessed with minimalist living so we spent about 3 months doing some serious purging and what we were left with was a lot of open space and no clutter. You would be amazed how much "stuff" you just hold on to. We called the garage service to come pick every last bit of it up and we washed our hands off it. We recently purged our closet before the new year, and man we do we feel more at ease.

We started our road to a Smart Home about 4 years ago and recently integrated the smart lights in the house that are voice activated (told you I'm married to Best Buy's love child). We are going to trick this place out to the vision we have in mind.

I'm sure I'm leaving a few things out but this is a starting point. I'll definitely do a mid-year check-in to see how we're progressing.

Family, is by far, one of the most important things to me. I come from a big, loud, opinionated family and I wouldn't have it any other way.

As part of our goal setting each year, my husband and I come up with a list of family goals. Everything from more family movie nights to family trips - we create a list that includes goals that impact the overall family.

Here are our family goals for 2018:



Our toddler is growing up and that means lots of big changes all at the same time. Potty training, sleeping in his own room ALL NIGHT, and starting extracurriculars to get some of that energy out. We are also planning for a big Disney trip (his first Disney experience!) in November around his birthday.

My oldest big will be 10 in a few months (Lawd, the double digits) so this year, we are going to start  doing some seriously big boy stuff. He's been wanting to update his room (the shift from little boy to budding pre-teen is commencing) so we will start working on that. I'm talking full overhaul: we're having painters come in and repaint, he's getting all new furniture including a new tv, the works. He's even going to have a big birthday party this year (pray for me and my pockets).

2017 sucked so bad for us in terms of routines (in my opinion) so I want to turn the corner on things and start the new year off strong. Luckily, the boys have been passed out by 9pm most nights so far since Christmas break (thank you baby Jesus), so I want to keep that up.

London was the idea of my oldest. He has been saying he wanted to visit and my husband said, "why not?" so, the family is heading to London in 2020. We decided to push this out by two years because we want to pay all cash and spare no expense. Plus the youngest will be 5, which is when I want to start traveling internationally with him. And finally, Hilton Head is annual trip for us. We've been spending Labor Day there for the last 3 years and I don't see that changing anytime soon.

Do you have any family goals for 2018?