so i think i finished my list. i jotted a ton of ideas on a legal pad so i am just going to type them out in no particular order. my date for completion is October 1, 2011! perfect! so here goes
oh and a lot of mine will have 22 days to do something because they say it take 21 days to develop a habit
- read 1 book for fun every month for 12 consecutive months (9/12)
- take all the kids to the dentist!
- write 10 posts on my cooking blog which i have never even started blogging on!
- start a home schooling blog about my first year (kind of done just decided this would be my only blog right now)
- make bread from scratch
- start the day with a devotion for 22 consecutive days
- take the kids to the snow
- have another baby =) yay thanks Lilly
- get dressed up for a fancy date with John
- wear red lipstick for a week! completed! i found this red lipstick at bath and body works of all places and i use it all the time now, although it wasn't the read i was envisioning it fits the bill.
- menu plan for a month at a time and stick to it- tried and it just doesn't work, i work best week to week
- have a yard sale- had one with some friends, had tons of stuff and none of us made much money booooo
- start a Christmas club account at the bank
- save a $1000 just because we need a savings
- invite a neighbor over for lunch
- plan a day to make a bunch of meals for the freezer
- have a family portrait taken finally after like 6 years we had it done and they are great!
- journal- not on the blog on paper =)
- sew something
- by yearly passes to Disneyland and take the kids at least 6 times
- sell some stuff on eBay/Craig's list to buy myself a nice SLR camera (Johnnie bought me one for Christmas
- take a photography class
- hang some pictures in my family room- done! i still want more but i have a great start!
- and in the hall
- drink 6 glasses of water a day for 22 days straight- i have been doing this since i am pregnant for some reason i love water this pregnancy
- buy a jogging stroller (found one for $40 on Craigs list)
- go on regular walks
- get a nice entertainment center for the family room (John built me one YAY!)
- throw a party for my husband
- memorize a passage in the bible once a week for 12 weeks (6/12)
- go on a girls weekend with friends not for mops/church just for fun
- run a half marathon (hey a girl can dream cant i?) I am hoping to really do this now~
- start savings accounts for the kids
- go on vacation with some other couples- no kids
- put some furniture in the formal living room- whoop whoop done!!!!
- plant a garden- planted it, praying it will grow HA!
- scrapbook with Liz
- go on a date once a month for a year straight!
- teach the kids how to cook some stuff
- paint Liz's bathroom-
- wake up before 6 for 30 days straight
- go to bed before midnight for 30 days straight
- tear out all the junk out of our soon to be room that we don't want in there- woo-hoo completed!
- paint our room-
- carpet our new room
- buy a nice bed (not the mattress just the bed itself)
- put window coverings in that room
- move into our actual bedroom
- buy a big white board
- buy a computer for the kids, or buy me a mac????
- decorate our home-school room
- try a new recipe once a week for 12 weeks
- lose 50 pounds whoop whoop i a so excited over that one!
- let the kids plan a vacation
- re-do our bathroom
- decorate the boys bathroom in something i really like
- blow insulation into the house- we did the attic!!!! yay! we now did the boys room yay!
- replace 12 windows in the house (7/12)
- replace the other 12 windows
- take the kids on a out of town trip by myself- visited my friend Belinda!
- write a letter to a friend the old fashioned way
- make a budget- stick to it for 6 months
- take a cooking class
- take a sewing class
- read 6 books on home-schooling
- decide on curriculum- purchase it! school has so far had everything i need
- get life insurance
- eat a vegetarian meal once a week for 12 weeks (12/12) this was WAY easier than i thought!
- eat 5 servings of veggies for 22 days straight
- resurface the pool
- put a diving board in
- find a swing set
- get patio furniture
- get front loaders (for energy savings of course)
- don't yell at the kids for 22 consecutive days (i know i can do it?!!!!!)
- no TV for a week
- plan for a cruise- going for our anniversary
- meet another blogger that i did not know before blogging in real life.
- comment on 10 blogs that i read and don't comment on for a week-
- have the back trees pruned- completed in May!
- volunteer in the community with the kids
- attend a Wednesday night service (i haven't been in YEARS!)- all the kids are in Awanas and small groups and John and I joined a small group too YAY
- teach the kids the importance of praise and worship and do it with them on a daily basis for 22 days straight
- take the kids to the park once a week for 6 weeks (i hate the park they love it!)
- take Liz on a over night girls trip just me and her
- fix the curtains in my family room so they are not capri's
- teach the kids some basic Spanish
- no sugar for 22 days!
- go in for a complete physical
- have lunch with a friend that i haven't seen for a while
- invite a family over for dinner who has never been to our house
- make a Christmas budget and stick to it
- go on a picnic
- clean all closets out
- take my mom to the movies
- have a 100 women in our mops group- and meet there needs as much as we can- well this is done as much as i could do since i am no longer coordinating or going to that church we got up to 80 and i think they were pretty happy. my new group that i attend has close to a 100
- teach my kids the importance of having vision and goals
- go to the library every other week for 6 months
- take flowers to Matthew's grave
- lead someone to the Lord
- unspoken
for more lists go see Katie's blog
Great list! I love #34... Ruby couples? THAT WOULD BE SO FUN!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI volunteer for 90 and 91. Just sayin...
ReplyDeleteLOL! I had to look at #90 and 91 to see if that last comment was from me! That's totally something I would say. It must be a Katie thing.
ReplyDeleteANYway, it's funny you put #78 on there...not something I'd ever imagine, but I just asked a new local blogging friend on a blind lunch date. I wouldn't have put it on my list b/c it didn't even occur to me!!!
great ideas!! what a neat post.
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