4 New Year’s Resolutions That Every Mom Should Make

It’s a new year and you know what that means: New Year’s Resolutions! Check out the 4 New Year’s Resolutions that every mom should make.

With a new year comes the good ole New Year’s resolutions. 

There’s even a trend now where instead of creating a list of resolutions, people are choosing a word or phrase to be their ‘theme’ for the year.

While I love this idea, I’m still an old fashioned ‘New Year’s Resolution’ girl at heart.

I love the idea of being able to take inventory of the year before and make a commitment to bettering myself and adopting new habits for the new year.

That said, as my faithful readers know, I have a soft spot for all my mamas out there. 

Especially my Stay-At-Home/Work-At-Home moms. 

With so much responsibility, it can be tough to keep all of our plates spinning at once.

So I figured it’d be a great idea to share some of my more personal resolutions that I feel that all my mama’s out there can relate to.

So without further ado, here are 4 New Year’s Resolutions that every mom should make!

Pursue A Passion

Remember the women you used to be BEFORE you got married and had kids?

Well guess what? 

She’s still in there and there is absolutely no reason that you can’t pursue your passion now that you have kids.

Music has always been a passion of mine. 

I absolutely love singing and have really been wanting to learn another instrument (or two).

But like most moms, I’ve been putting it off.

Saying things like:

“I don’t have time.”

And…

“That ship has sailed. Just focus on being a good wife and mom.”

But guess what, I’m tired of putting myself last.

I’m done acting as if I have no other interests outside of my family and my blog.

I encourage you to revisit the things that you were once passionate about and pursue your passion with me this year!

Be More Present

I know I’m not the only mom out there that could stand to put their phone down more often. 

Towards the end of the year last year I started realizing that I was spending way too much time on my phone.

See, for those of you that have an iPhone, you may have noticed that each week it’ll tell you exactly how much time you’ve been spending on your phone.

Well, although more than half of the time spent on my phone is for work/blogging purposes, these stats were a huge eye-opener for me.

Even if you don’t have an iPhone, I’m sure that you can think of a handful of times where you could’ve should’ve put your phone down to enjoy a moment with your family.

For me, it’s gotten to the point where my 2-year old will bring me my phone if he sees it laying around. 

Just goes to show how much he associates it with me being on it.

So this year, I plan to be intentional about limiting my screen time and other distractions and I encourage you to do the same.

Let’s spend 2019 being in the moment with our kids and making new memories with our family.

Create A Routine

Okay, so my faithful readers may have already read my morning & evening routines, and wonder what other routine I could possibly need.

Well, while I’ve got my personal routines pretty down pact (minus my fitness routine – working on that this year), I desperately need to figure out a cleaning routine.

While I don’t expect to have a spotless home, especially with two kids under two, I do need to get a handle on things.

This isn’t because I feel like I have to uphold some type of image or anything, but more so because as the keeper of the home, it’s my responsibility to set the tone and feel of my home for my family – as well as anyone who visits.

Besides, who doesn’t feel 10x better when their home is clean?

So it’s my mission this year to create and implement a routine that allows me to maintain a certain level of cleanliness in my home on a regular basis, and as boring as that may sound, I’m pretty doggone excited about it.

While you may not need a cleaning routine per se, I’ve learned that having routines in place make staying home with my boys 10x easier and at the end of the day I feel like I actually got something done.

So whether it’s a cleaning routine, fitness routine, or maintaining a consistent self-care regime, take some time to create a routine for yourself this year.

You won’t regret it!

Give Yourself Grace

With all that you accomplished last year, did you stumble across the formula to becoming the perfect mom? 

Yeah, me either.

It’s so easy to beat ourselves up over the things that we feel like we ‘should’ be doing as moms.

Notice I put should in quotations.

Thanks to the lovely world of social media, motherhood has become such a comparison game and unfortunately, this causes many of us to second guess ourselves.

We see someone else’s highlight reel and the next thing you know, we’re being super hard on ourselves and feeling like we aren’t enough.

Well guess what mama?

You ARE enough!

Let’s take a step back this year and give ourselves grace.

Grace for the good times and grace during the struggle.

Each day won’t be picture perfect, but it’ll be a new chance to put our best foot forward as we strive to be who our husbands and children need for us to be. 

My Word For 2019…

I hope that you can resonate with my New Year’s Resolutions and that you decide to adopt a few of them as your own.

I’m pretty excited to put them into action and embrace everything that 2019 has to offer.

That said…

Embrace is my word for the year.

While it has a couple of different uses and meanings, the one that speaks to me the most is:

em·brace/əmˈbrās/verb

To accept or support (a belief, theory, or change) willingly and enthusiastically.

Now replace ‘a belief, theory, or change’ with ‘myself‘, and that’s my theme for the year.

This word is what inspired the above list and it’s what I will remind myself of whenever self-doubt and pity try to sneak in.

Do you have a word or theme for 2019?

If so, share it in the comments below, I’d love to hear it!

Happy New Year!

-Kermilia