My 2nd baby isn't here yet but I look forward to the first time that I can get both LOs to nap at the same time!!!
Do you have any parenting goals? 
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To teach her manners, kindness and generosity. I wasn't the best sharer as a kid and I want to ensure she is.
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To have a healthy eater who works hard and doesn't procrastinate on their homework. Dream child!
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To have a sushi buddy!!! I know, silly, but my DH doesn't eat sushi, steak, or most cooked seafood. I just want someone on my side for fancy food
My first *real* goal is getting baby out of the house during maternity leave. I see all these women with babies and I'm just in awe of them... I have no idea what taking a baby around involves and it terrifies me!
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@Bookworm: I love your sushi goal!
I hope to raise a child with lots of exposure to different situations and appreciation of the world. I grew up with a "small world" and had to discover everything on my own later in life.
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I really want my kids to be tolerant, generous and smart. I want them to know without a doubt they are always loved.
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@Bookworm: it involves a willingness to nurse outside of your living room and some sort of baby holding device. Oh and flexibility.
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My first goal is to keep the baby in until 39 weeks or more! Then like @Bookworm: I want to get out of the house most days of my mat leave (well, eternity leave, as Tororojo says). I'm a homebody so I'll have to force myself to keep getting out.
I also want our kids to like athletic things more than I do-- DH loves running around, pick up basketball, skiing, etc, and I do not, was never really raised with it. So I want to make sure our kids like just doing stuff, whether or not they are good at any particular sport.
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@runnerd: Thank you! Your goal reminds me, I want my kids to travel, even if it's just to a different city in TX. DH didn't get on his first plane until we got married, was not exposed to other cultures or food, and I really want my kid to be a bit more worldly, and comfortable in different situations!
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@Bookworm: yeah - I never saw the ocean until college and my husband and I's first flight was for our honeymoon. Things like that I want to be different for my children
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Long term goals: Make them appreciate what they have and not to expect everything and anything. Surprise! You are buying your first car, cellphone, etc.
Short term: Socialize her as much as possible. It's so easy to stay at home.
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Well behaved kids and polite. I don't want to have to remind them every time to say thank you, etc. We also want to make sure we travel with our kids. Our goal is someplace new every 2-3 years for vacation.
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Well-behaved, good manners, I want them to not expect to get everything they want - they have to work for it. I also want them to appreciate what they have and know that there are people who have even less then they do.
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There are tons but one of them just because we're at the eating stage is to raise a child that never asks for a happy meal!
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Immediate goal: teach her how to fist bump -_-
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Immediate goal: teach her how to hug back. She likes hugs; but doesn't hug back yet and I want bebe huggies man!
Long term goals: raise an independent thinker with a strong sense of ethics and morality, a good eater, a travel buddy, and a child who is generous, thoughtful and kind.
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