July 9, 2025

July Midyear Review, goals, and a giant planner!

I managed to get a bit of a midyear review in this week with both Andy and with my own goals.  

This year has been... crazy. In the first half of the year

  • We spent 3 months very short of childcare (only 2 days a week to balance a 4 day and 5 day workweek)
  • Andy applied for and started a new job
  • I applied for two new jobs in my company, got both of them, and start one in September
  • The kids are doing great in School.  Lily left her private nursery to have more home days with us before she starts school
  • The twins transitioned to one nap a day
  • Andy and I have gotten out for multiple date nights and two mountain biking days
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I'm "on track" with some of my goals and way off with others.  

After a weekend watching 3 kids from Saturday morning to Sunday night both Andy and I agreed that we are not in a "solo parent travel" phase of life yet, so he cancelled his 3 day biking trip and my goal paris trip has been postponed.

I have done 49 strength workouts this year, of my 100 goal.  However, I did a lot more strength in January-March than April-June.

I have started running again and on 27th July I'll "officially" start training for my Half Marathon (ie, I'll follow a real plan, not the 3 day a week running I'm doing now)

I've done 7 in person yoga classes of my 15 goal

I've not been great about tracking stuff either, so I've reduced the number of things I'm trying to track.

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Midyear Goal Updates: 

Personal Weekly Planning.  I feel like I make a weekly plan and then I just don't really look at it again. Which is kind of cool, but it might be better to actually plan things into my weekly plan in future months and know I'm going to look at it rather than sometimes planning and sometimes not planning.

Declutter house, and put things away.  Our house is becoming a stuff house and could use a summer sort.  I should book 3-4 hours to work on this project because I know I will feel better living where everything has a space to live.  Also, I often resent spending time on housework, so I don't.  But if I view this as "me time" not "me picking up after kids time" then I might enjoy it more

Audiobooks.  I should get some audiobooks on the go so I can read more and also maybe not resent the declutter/tidy time because it will also be reading time.

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I spent a bit of time looking at the rest of the year, and the big things that are happening in the next few months.  I realized why November is such a bummer month for me usually... there's really nothing to look forward to, especially without Thanksgiving.  I decided to make November my "learn things" month and will book in a biking course and a breadmaking course then (both on my yearly goals)

I cracked open my giant 2025-2026 family calendar, which I LOVE already


So much writing space! So much future time!

Do you do any sort of midyear review? How has the first half of 2025 treated you, overall?  Do you think the rest of 2025 will be better, worse, or the same?  Do you like a giant planner?

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4 comments:

  1. Grateful KaeJuly 10, 2025 at 12:03 AM

    Man you are killing it parenting all those kids. Haha. Seriously, impressive. And look at you guys- both new jobs!? That's huge too.

    I don't recall from past years- do you still celebrate Thanksgiving? My sister and her husband in Ireland always host a big "Thanksgiving" on the Saturday after and invite a big group of neighbors. The neighbors all think it's great fun to partake in a different tradition, and my American sister + BIL get to continue passing on Thanksgiving traditions to their kids!

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    1. RachelJuly 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM

      Thanks! The new jobs thing is big - I can't really forget that! I still feel like we are barely holding it together, but we are able to get out and do stuff so it's definitely getting easier.

      We have done thanksgiving however Since I had babies in Oct 2018, Sep 2020 and Oct 2023 we haven't really had an "enjoyable" Thanksgiving for a while (IMHO both Newborns and 1 year olds do not make for good thanksgivings) I think this year we might be able to do a bigger celebration on the Sunday after and start that as an ongoing event. British people love being involved in these traditions so it's definitely a fun one - we always do a pumpkin carving party as well which people love.

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  2. JJuly 11, 2025 at 12:03 AM

    WOW, you both got new jobs this year??? That’s amazing! I’m sorry about your postponed trips, but I think it’s likely for the best for now.

    I did a mid year assessment and decided I am tired of having a cluttered house. So I’ve set myself a challenge to get rid of 1 thing a day for the rest of 2025, and then see how it is in January with all of those things gone. So far so good, 10 days in!

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  3. K @ TSJuly 11, 2025 at 6:08 AM

    Hey when you write it all out, it is a lot! I keep telling myself that I am going to do strength training, but then....I don't. I have no excuse either; it is just something that I have not made into a habit and so I don't do it!

    It looks like your "ate veg" habit is getting better! I mean, you have to take the wins where you can, right? My ate veg category is also not great lately, unless you count potatoes. If you had a category that said "ate butter" or "drank coffee" I would be stellar. To be fair, I do put the butter on potatoes. 😊

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