New Year. New goals!

Happy New Year!
  I have been thinking about how 2015 was a great year for our family, we learned alot, went on some great trips, played hard, had a great garden and lots of fun animal births, changes and growth for us.
This year might just be better, at least I'm hoping so....As I type my brain is swirling with thoughts, ideas, projects, goals, hopes, plans, lists, and schedules. Yeah, welcome to the mindset of an ADHD, work from home, homeschooling, mini-farming mom!

 The new year is a time of getting out the new calendar, and writing down the schedules for 3 active kids, my 3 business' schedule, our church callings, and then yard, garden, home, and animal projects. I'm feeling pulled in 16 directions and each one is more important than the last, and I need to get it all on paper, write out the most important (usually the most stressful or biggest) things first.
 This time of year, isn't even that busy, with cold, rainy, dark weather, the let down of the holidays, I love the month of January because we can purge the house of things we don't need, love or use.
I can plan the garden with what we want or need to grow, I rotate what we grow in our beds every year, so the soil can have enough nutrients for everything.

 We schedule or vacations around The Hubs work schedule,
 I make sure to schedule and plan all dental and health check-ups for the year.
We go over the animals; such as planning for dog litters, rabbit breedings, chicken coop clean-outs.
I schedule my sewing, and weddings as best I can for the whole year, lately I have been booked up to 5 weeks in advance, and that's a lot of work!
Making sure we plan for church service, temple attendance and doing our callings is usually a monthly thing so it's not as demanding, but still must be done!
Finding a balance isn't easy. Making sure everything gets done or at least addressed is not always successful.

Homeschooling 3 kids at different grades and ages isn't as fun as one might think. The kids are most of the time, very self-motivated. But there are some days that we just don't get it all the way together and now with a 12 year old who wants to start thinking about college, we're having to push and stretch academically alot more!

This post isn't about having all the answers, in fact, at this moment I'm thinking if I can just get this post done, shop for groceries(since we were out of town the last 5 days!) clip and bathe the dogs, plan out the rest of the week, have kids clean their rooms, and we have a hot dinner I might be a Super Woman!

   Lol, but seriously that's a typical day around here, juggling as much as I can and still not feeling like I got enough done! And yet I love my life! I'm excited to plan the garden, to see after 3 years what comes back, and how much better our front yard will look now that most of the transplants are established, and we can finally get the front retaining wall finished. The fruit trees we planted 3 years ago when we bought this house, should finally produce more than 8 apples and 11 cherries!

We have had alot of interest on our dogs and puppies, I realized over the last few days, that we are dog breeder-people, it's alot of work, and sometimes stressful, but very rewarding and something we are good at and comfortable with...So we are moving forward with that this year, we are planning for a summer litter with Lady and are looking into adding another female with strong black and silver coloring into our family. I know, your thinking another dog?! But yes, we have found a niche and feel like we're open to that this year sometime.

 I'm not sure how much sewing I will do this year, I'm feeling pulled in different directions right now and want to explore those, I will still continue with the scheduled weddings and proms I've committed to but I'm not going to actively pursue more.
As for working out....hey if I can get 15 minutes done a day I feel like a Rockstar, if not, then I'm not going to freak out. I'm still teaching my Thursday morning class of which I love! Those women are a great group and I love the challenge of creating new workouts, and modifying or changing to accommodate injuries, pregnancies, or goals to work on.

We are also toying with the idea of selling our house and buying a bigger place, no, not more square footage, but more land! We are busting out of our sweet little 2/3rd acre. We have too many animals and garden/orchard goals that just won't fit here.
I don't know when or where we will go, not too far. We love the area! But that would make everything else become secondary or moved to the back burner, at least for a little while....