This year I couldn’t decide on a new year resolution. Am I always trying to improve my eating habits and exercise more? Yes. And I find it so utterly boring. It’s a major part of my life that needs work, yes, but God isn’t there more to life than Jillian Michaels Ripped in 30?

So I have my fitness/eating goals as a background resolution. Every month I start fresh and if I meet my goals for that month I get a little prize.

But I also set a separate resolution for each month, something new and different and interesting. Or something that I really need to get done.

This month’s resolution had to do with finishing the house. We’ve lived here six months now, and we’re doing okay–there are only three boxes still left to unpack and they are full of books that we don’t have a shelf for yet. But I also haven’t hung much art on the walls. The boys have these old dressers in their rooms that we inherited from the previous owners and these dressers suck. The attic annex playroom is kind of a mess.

My goal this month was to finish the boys’ rooms, finish the attic annex, and hang some pictures on the second floor and in my bedroom.

I did not accomplish my goals. The boys’ rooms are closer to done. They have much better dressers from IKEA. We finally got a bed frame for my youngest so his mattress is no longer just plopped on the floor. He and I both also got new desk chairs for our desks.

I did get some art hung in the upstairs hallway. I did not get anything hung in my room. I did not get started on any of my attic annex project.

And I didn’t make my fitness and eating goals for this month either.

I am trying to remind myself that influenza took a whole week from me, and threw everything off schedule, but it’s still a frustrating way to kick off the new year.

Today is February 1 and this month’s resolution might be easier. We will see.