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Mom Goals: Make more meaningful home movies!



One of my goals as a mother is to try and take lots of videos of my kids and family as we grow up. We live in a world full of technology. It is everywhere all the time... which for me, is a double edged sword. I like it and I hate it! But I am so pumped that we have such easy access to cameras and videos all day long so that I can capture so many of the fun things happening around us. The video above I made back when Wyatt was almost 6 weeks old and it is to one of my absolute favorite songs! It's called "If You Asked Me To" by Mckenzie Porter (she's Canadian!) and the music video she made is adorable.

As a kid my favorite Sunday pass time was to watch home movies and look through photo albums. I want the same thing for my kiddos (and me) in the future so NOW is the time for me to break out the video camera (and iPhone camera, lol) as well as keep up with my tradition of printing a photo book every December for Christmas! Two years down, a million to go!

Now for some ramblings...

I'll admit to already being worried about how I will teach and regulate the use of tech in our home as our kids grow up. Wherever I go I see people with their noses glued to their screens. Lots of the time I am one of those people to the other observers out there.

I really want to improve my quality of life this year and to do so I would like to try and spend less time looking at social media or staring at some other thing on my phone, computer and TV. Don't misinterpret me to mean that I'm already good at this, because I am far from it! But I'm proud of myself for at least putting it on my "mom radar" as well as my New Year's Goals for 2018.

I hope to start giving myself "time limits" of 10 minutes or so for each time I open an app on my phone or sit down to something "less productive" on my desktop. I got this idea from my friend Makelle. She had a baby about three weeks before me and one day when we were talking about how much more difficult is became to get things done she told me about how she sets timers for 15 minutes and tells herself that she will clean the kitchen for 15 minutes and then she goes to town. This makes it easier for her to accomplish the tasks on her to do list without overwhelming herself. You can get just about any room in a house tidied up in 15 minutes!

So, one question I have for the universe is, "why is it so hard to keep up with a goal as soon as it's voiced out loud?" Seriously? Last Monday Josh and I worked on our individual and family goals for 2018 and I was so pumped. It's been 4 days and I'm not sure if I've made any progress with even a fourth of my goals!

Luckily I have all year to keep working at them. And I will!

I hope that you enjoy the video of my tiny, squishy baby! It both warms and breaks my heart to see how small he was!








Also as a side note, I love the light in our little apartment! (Please ignore our poor man's nightstand!)

- M -

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