January Team Corner {Resolutions, Goals, Grace, and Podcasts}

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Catch up with our Rio Grande Valley Moms Blog contributors to find out their resolutions for the year.

I know what you’re thinking. It’s the end of January! Well, take a minute to read Celeste’s post about doing this very thing, Goals and Grace.

The latest episode of Just Add Sprinkles podcast also talks about this very thing! We sometimes feel the pressure to set a resolution on day 1 of the year and a majority of folks dump their resolution by January 17th. Not this year! Read on to hear more from our writers.

January Team Corner - Meet the Moms Behind the RGV Moms Blog

What is your resolution this year?
To simplify my life

What are you most looking forward to in 2018?
Helping my daughter navigate choosing the best middle school this Spring, then transitioning to that school and everything it has to offer in the Fall

What is your resolution this year?
I am on a “clean and organize” mission this year, starting with the garage. The theme is along the lines of “get rid of all the stuff”. Well, all the stuff we just. don’t. need.

What are you most looking forward to in 2018?
I am most looking forward to more family outings, family game nights, and of course getting rid of all the stuff!

Celeste Barnard RGV Moms Blog

What holiday tradition will you NEVER skip?
1- We watch It’s a Wonderful Life every year on Christmas Eve.
2- Matching Christmas PJs every year
3- We watch a lot of Christmas movies throughout the month of December and drink lots of hot cocoa!
4- We pick one day on Christmas break and watch a movie that has at least three in the series! Like
The Chronicles of Narnia, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, etc. We literally watch all day and have lots of snacks and hang out in our PJs!

What do you want for Christmas this year?
Instant Pot

-Celeste

What is your resolution this year?
To speak in a whisper when I get angry, instead of elevating my voice.

What are you most looking forward to in 2018?
Seeing the Lord work in my family, community and the world.

What is your resolution this year?
Don’t go to bed until the sink is clean! I need to fine tune my cleaning routine.

What are you most looking forward to in 2018?
I’m looking forward to enjoying quality time with my baby boy who just turned a year old!

What is your resolution this year?
I don’t necessarily have one…but going to try to make this year more about me (take care of mental & physical health). 

What are you most looking forward to in 2018?
Not sure . . . it hasn’t sunken in yet that we’re in 2018.

-Claudia

Crystal Kelly RGV Moms Blog

What holiday tradition will you NEVER skip?
We watch Elf while we put up our tree.

What holiday food will you ALWAYS eat?
TAMALES!!!

What do you want for Christmas this year?
A Red Rider BB gun. Just kidding. I want someone that is not me to clean my house spotless while I lay on the couch watching Netflix and drinking mimosas.

-Crystal

What is your resolution this year?
To stop making resolutions and just make everyday count. I would say to be more patient, but life always finds a way to mess that up!

What are you most looking forward to in 2018?
Spending more time with my family. Family really is everything.

Giana RGV Moms Blog

Giana

What is your resolution this year?
I hope to reverse the hypothyroid diagnosis I received three weeks ago.

What are you most looking forward to in 2018?
I am looking forward to traveling and vacation time with my family!

 

Kim RGV Moms Blog

What holiday tradition will you NEVER skip?
Listening to Christmas songs while decorating the tree

What holiday food will you ALWAYS eat?
All the sweets that abound at Christmas

What do you want for Christmas this year?
No gift in particular, but I’m looking forward to time with family

-Kim

Mariana Alessandri RGV Moms Blog

What holiday tradition will you NEVER skip?
Decorating the tree

What holiday food will you ALWAYS eat?
Something with mint in it

What do you want for Christmas this year?
For my 5-year-old to read to me

-Mariana

Melissa Bean RGV Moms Blog

Melissa

What is your resolution this year?
To spend more quality time with my daughters

What are you most looking forward to in 2018?
I’m looking forward to having a year of understanding and peace.

Miriam Contreras RGV Moms Blog

What holiday tradition will you NEVER skip?
Advent wreath and candles

What holiday food will you ALWAYS eat?
Tamales and pozole

-Miriam

Rachel Carreon RGV Moms Blog

What holiday tradition will you NEVER skip?
We celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah, so I love decorating the Christmas tree together with my family, and I love lighting the candles for the 8 nights of Hanukkah with my kiddos. 

What holiday food will you ALWAYS eat?
Molasses cookies – I make them every Christmas

What do you want for Christmas this year?
We moved in May and are very slowly decorating. I’d like some bar stools for our kitchen island so I don’t have to keep telling my kids to get away from the fridge and the stove. They want to be involved, but they need a place to call their own.

-Rachel

Ruth Navarro RGV Moms Blog

What holiday tradition will you NEVER skip?
Popping fireworks and breaking a piñata

What holiday food will you ALWAYS eat?
Tamales

What do you want for Christmas this year?
My house decluttered and clean! Seriously. That’s it. I don’t want or need anything else.

-Ruth

Stephanie Schumann RGV Moms Blog

Stephanie

What is your resolution this year?
Finish unpacking, empty our storage units, and finish making our new house a home… preferably before 2019. 

What are you most looking forward to in 2018?
Less chaos, more stability, more schedules and more organization.
Bring it 2018!

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