September

Can you believe that September is two days away already? It actually blows my mind. I always consider September to be the beginning of the year for Eric and me. I actually don't understand how to start a new year in January, I think it's just absurd. Okay, not that intense, but it makes so much more sense to get ourselves organized and ready to go for September. Goals in mind, life sorted out. At least while we're students.
So with September and the school year fast approaching, I've decided to spend some time trying to make Eric and I organize our lives. There are about a million organization blogs out there, and about a trillion free printables, but there is always something that needs tweaking for each individual person or family. These are some of the things I've come up with to organize Eric and I together, and hopefully separately as well.
One thing I really want us to do is make and follow a budget. Eric is really good with money, and has taught me many things. Together I think we are good with what we spend and what we save, especially with rent and food not being an issue for us right now, that makes it easier to save. But I just like the idea of both of us knowing exactly where everything goes and what we get with our money.

I also really want us to set and work on goals. With this being the start of our new year I decided to call them resolutions. I hope that we will set these resolutions at the beginning of September and be working on at least one of them each week. We have personal individual goals, and we have family goals. Just like we have personal individual schedules, and we have family schedules.

I also want us to develop better relationships with our families and friends. Eric and I have been, as you know, very transient since we got married. Even I alone have been all over the place for about 4 years now (crazy). It's hard for us to make and keep up good friendships when we're never around, always changing our phone numbers, and awful awful at using Facebook (which seems to be how everyone else does it). So I came up with these two to help us remember important people on their important days, and to keep in contact with people we love.

 

Yesterday I got out and found a binder and some dividers and a few other little things that I think will help us to accomplish these things. Ultimately I just want Eric and I to feel settled. This is hopefully the end of our traveling lives, although don't get me wrong I've enjoyed every adventure we've shared. It will be so nice to soon move into an apartment where we can sign a lease, and not live month to month. It will be nice to have an address and a phone number, aside from our parents', that we can hand out to people and let them get a hold of us. It will be nice to finally get out own furniture and our own set of dinnerware, in a home where we can hang our own pictures (of ourselves) on the walls. I can't wait for Eric and I to get our first home together, and when we do, I want it to feel organized and peaceful and lovely, a place where we really do want to stay.
I love September and am excited for it to finally be on our doorstep. Fall is my favourite season, and it always brings into our lives a certain freshness that I just don't feel as keenly on January 1st. This September is going to be a good one for Eric and I, and so will this year.