- Do a half marathon trail run WITH KYLE!
Kyle was adamant about not participating in the full 13.1. The plan shifted to run Red Rock trails from back to front 2.5 times and call that the trail run. The revision was completed. Check out https://heybrookefuller.com/2025/12/22/face-the-fear-because-the-goal-demands-it/ to read all about it.
- Teach my kids to do chores consistently.
We moved from a 2 to a 4 on a scale of 1-10. Our new method is quite fascinating. The entire family works on one room for four minutes and then moves to the next. It’s been working quite well. Now to figure out how to make this happen when ball games are going on 3 nights a week or homework is crazy. Still learning.
- Become excited about something new. 2024 held achieving a lot of my big goals and now I’m over here like what’s next? The word “less” is speaking to me.
Lots of my photography process has changed and that’s exciting. I was stoked about making people magnets for a couple weeks before being inundated with weddings/sessions. I loved yoga for a few weeks. Nothing seemed to stick.
- Sabbatize!
Two times.
- Run a 1:51:00 half.
I must have been feeling quite energetic when I wrote this goal. Best yet is a 1:53. Can my older self shave off a couple minutes? Not sure this is still a desire in my heart.
I was actively pursuing this. One day during a run, I thought…why? What are the reasons this is one of my goals? I am 37, have nothing to prove, why not just run slow and enjoy life? I don’t know.
- Normalize spending freezes. Like extensive spending freezes. Avoid purchasing anything that doesn’t clothe the children or fill our bellies or is consumable. I want less in my life. Less clutter. Less distractions. Less chaos. Less stuff. Less money spent on things that I’ll throw away.
I chunked a crap-ton of stuff. However, we did drop a chunk of money on a garage conversion.
- Plant strawberries.
Done. Am I really supposed to continue watering these through the winter? I need Kyle to stop undoing my water hose.
- Lose 22 pounds so that running a 1:51:00 half is much easier and I feel less crummy.
Lost 7 around summer time, then my metabolism was like psych, this is where you stay…FOREVER! Then gained that back plus a few more.
- Go see Nate Bargatze’s Big Dumb Eyes.
I finally took this off my calendar. He’s hilarious, but frugal Brooke nixed this one.
- Be more intentional with friends.
So very grateful for my friends these days!
- Never return to the AMC and pay $39 for four icees and a bottle of water.
CHECK!
- Read The Year of Less.
Done! Great book.
- Throw away the gray water hose hanging out in my backyard.
Done.
- Successfully grow grass in my entire backyard.
Got a bit closer this year.
- Give away things that are not regularly utilized.
Loads were given away, yet still there is too much in our lives!
- Utilize my new purple water bottle that replaced all of my broken water bottles.
What purple water bottle? One of my kids must have stolen it.
- Post two blogs a month.
Really. I wrote this? Which Brooke thought consistency was something I could achieve? My method is write 3 blogs a week for a couple weeks and then chunk the deuces for months.
- Document my days.
Routines sound nice, but are simply not part of my life.
- Finish the Bible reading plan I’ve been going through.
Done.
- Run from the south side beginning of the Canyon Ridge (Rim?) trail to the horsetail trail and back WITH KYLE.
Donesy!
- Average no more than 1 hour of cellular device screen time.
LOL!
- Plan ahead and send snack day snacks on my child’s snack day.
Two weeks into the first of the school year this was achieved. However, I believe this means nothing. Pretty sure I missed the last two. Sorry Mrs. Walker.
- Order Christmas presents on Black Friday and/or Cyber Monday? Still not sure if I’m at a place where I can enter stores on that day.
Done – however, Christmas costs us 5x more than I believe it should. I could say 10,000 words about Christmas, but I’ll refrain.
- Make it through the next 25 (26?) days of this wretched 30-day-no-sugar challenge my dad has me on.
I got close, but then was frustrated by all the changing rules.
- As always, don’t get pregnant.
Succeeding!
- Learn something new about off-camera flash.
I highly recommend Godox V1 flashes. Learned a ton about flash, but never utilized off-camera. Stuck to on-camera. I need to hire an assistant.
- Create joy and coziness in every day life. Hygge.
My new room/office/peace place is everything good and cozy. I wouldn’t say hygge level, but cozy enough that I rarely want to leave it.
- Live off of lamp light once the sun sets.
Happening more so than last year, but not as intentionally as I’d like.
- Give away the box of toys/blankets I hid from the children last year. It’s been a year and they’ve not asked for one single item from that box.
If I make a comeback from this sickness before the first, I’ll revisit this.
- Turn my chicken coop into a green house (only if I am gifted the lining I’ll need for my birthday).
Turned it into raised plant boxes, but then demolished those as well.
- Obtain a rick of wood.
Obtained loads of wood; used loads of wood; obtained more wood.
- Determine why I cannot connect with my backyard and remedy the problem. Actually, I think I may know the problem and it might be illegal to remedy the problem so never mind.
It’s the ferocious dog that growls and barks at me anytime I set foot out there. If you see the side of my front yard un-mowed, it’s because I’m scared of having my leg bit off.
- Track how long it takes a toenail to grow back after falling off after running a marathon.
Well I can confirm it’s less than 7 months, but I failed to note when it was fully back.
- Normalize guiltless sitting.
Why did I even say this? I am incapable.
- Make roast, potatoes, and carrots at least twice a month.
Pretty sure I made this twice in twelve months.
- Figure out how to get over it!
Is it possible?
- Be a good tooth fairy if this is the year J loses his first teeth.
All his teeth are still intact; however, I lost a tooth (crown) three times and had an oral surgery to extract the remaining roots of a tooth that had a root canal probably 11 years ago, a bone graft, and an implant. Surgery is weird. I’m a baby when it comes to teeth. Also, not sure why Kyle allowed me to have my phone as I was coming too. I’ve been looking like a hillbilly since August. Hopefully January brings a new fake tooth.