New Year's - Boston Moms Blog

Keeping one New Year’s resolution for an entire year is not a strong point of mine. For example, that year I resolved to open my mail every day? By February the pile was almost a week deep. Or that time I tried to write in a journal every day? The pages are blank. Or when I wanted to work out, eat healthy, and get more sleep? I am still working on that, years later. 

This year, I have decided to make a bucket list instead. Small goals that are attainable. Things I can cross off when they are accomplished. Ideas that will not leave me feeling like a failure come Dec. 31. Activities to do with my kids. Adventures to share with loved ones. Books to read. Recipes to make. A list. A simple list. Not an idea that will pass with each day. 

So, here it goes. 

My 2019 bucket list:

  1. Make a Chinese food meal from scratch. 
  2. Try a new workout. 
  3. Mail birthday cards for family and friends. 
  4. Make my son’s lunch the night before, for a week.
  5. Take pictures of the boys on the beach. 
  6. Run a 5K. 
  7. Make a batch of homemade cheese.
  8. Read a cookbook cover to cover. 
  9. Plan a date night with hubby once a quarter. 
  10. Dance. Dance every day for 21 days. (Secretly hoping it becomes a habit.)

Actually taking a moment to write this list is already making me feel better about 2019. I am excited to hold myself accountable (and you can now hold me accountable) to these things. I am excited to cross things off. I am ready to tackle this list like I do my grocery list. I can do it. I will be successful. Each of these things on my list is an idea I have thought about, but now they are in a list — and they are achievable.  

Maybe this year you will make a resolution to stick to for the entire year — or, join me in making a bucket list. Either way, I hope you have a happy and healthy 2019.

New Year's - Boston Moms Blog

Krystal Avila
Krystal is a Massachusetts native who grew up in the 'burbs and is now loving the city life in Roslindale with her husband and 3 boys (9, 6, and 1). She and her husband met downtown working at a restaurant together, and since then their love of restaurants has kept their date nights exciting as they try out the latest places. Learning Spanish has been something Krystal has loved ever since middle school, and that has become her passion as a Spanish teacher, wife to a Salvadoran, and mother raising her children bilingual. Loves: family, friends, playing with her kids, a comfy hoodie on the beach when the sun goes down, nachos, baking, Christmas movies. Not so much: loud music, putting away laundry, terrible threes, and black pepper.