Insane Goals: July Update
Another month has past. Here is how I did with my list of goals last month.
July Accomplishments:
1. A miracle has happened! Grace is drinking cow’s milk out of her sippy cup!! I gave up trying to get her to drink the frozen breast milk and she was equally uninterested in cow’s milk. Then just like magic she is asking for it!
2. I froze 20 pounds of blueberries. People, that is a lot of blueberries!
3. My cleaning checklist got a good work out this month, especially during Get Workin’ Wednesday. Anyone want to see that happen again???
4. My garden has been flooding me with zucchini and now the tomatoes have started. Totals so far are: 41 zucchini and 15 tomoatoes
5. We stained the lattice under our deck. I’m really happy with how it turned out. Now we just need to do the balcony railing and we’ll be finished.
6. One of my summer goals is to read 2 books each month for the summer reading program at my library. In June I didn’t finish a single book, but I read 3 in July!
7. We’ve been having a lot of fun crossing things off our Summer Fun List.
July Disappointments:
1. I have been eating more fruit, but I’m not confident that it has actually replaced sweets. Instead it seems to accompany them.
2. I need to get serious about these photo books I want to finish. I’ve uploaded a lot of pictures to Snapfish, but I haven’t started the books yet.
3. We haven’t even touched the goal of weaning Grace off her pacifier. She has it for bedtime, every nap and diaper change (I have no idea how that started!). Plus she asks for it in the car a lot. I’m not too upset about this, but I did think she would be using it less by this point.
4. I deleted some of our yard work goals from my Summer Goals. It is just too late in the season to justify spending money on mulch and other flowers. Plus, why haven’t we put in a clothes line yet?!!??!?! It’s frugal. It’s green. It needs to be done!
5. Why did I even make personal goals this year? They are consistently the ones most ignored each month!
You can see all my progress from this year below, but first… Do you have an interest in joining a monthly “Crossing It Off The List” type of link up? Let me know in the comments!
My complete list of goals for 2011:
Host Once a Month
Mail More Cards
Organize Our Photographs – Photo books I want to finish in 2011:
- The Year 2008
- The Year 2009
- The Year 2010
- Grace’s First Year Book
- Mystery Book
Create & Follow a Cleaning Checklist
Garden
Can Something
Organize The House – Rooms I want to conquer in 2011:
- Basement
- Attic
- Grace’s Closet
- Bathroom
- Guest Bedroom
- Master Bedroom
- Mud Room
- Kitchen Steps
Home Improvements
- Purchase Patio Furniture
- Pick out & Buy Blinds for all Downstairs Windows
- Stain the Balcony Railing & Deck Lattice
- Hang Pictures
- Solve the No-Coat-Closet Problem
- Solve the Bathroom Storage Problem
Goals for Grace
- Continue to limit her pacifier use to only in the crib & eventually wean from crib use.
- Develop a better routine for giving her a daily vitamin & brushing her teeth in the morning. I just can’t seem to nail down a solid time for this each day.
Have Grace drink milk from her sippy cup.- Work on her stairs climbing skills so we can get to a place where we feel comfortable with her going up & down the stairs on her own.
- Have devotions from her “baby” Bible.
Personal & Spiritual Goals
- Drink more water.
- Exercise at least a little!
Eat more fruitinstead of sugar & chocolate.- Read daily devotions.
- Increase personal prayer time & prayer time with Nate.
- Schedule more time for myself.
- Schedule monthly date nights with hubby.
Insane Goals Summer Edition
Buy New Pool for Grace & Throw Out Old One
Clean Out Gutters
Add a Clothesline
Dig Up Unwanted Plants
Complete the Summer Fun Checklist
Read 2 Books Each Month
Try to “Preserve the Harvest” – Things I want to accomplish:
- Rhubarb Jam
- Strawberry Jam
- Freeze Strawberries
Freeze Blueberries- Try New Zucchini Recipes
- Peach Jam
- Can Peaches
- Salsa
- Pizza Sauce
- Applesauce
Check back next month and I’ll let you know how I’m doing on my Insane List of Goals. Don’t forget to fill me in on your progress in the comments!
I would love to participate in a cross it off the list link up with you! Let me know!
Thanks, Gillian! I’ll save your email and send you the details if this thing pans out.
I agree… goodness knows I have TONS of stuff waiting in the wings to get done.
I just want to point out tht the “stain” that you put on looks white…like white paint….not stain. Did those silly PA-ers teach you funny words again??
There are different types of stain that you can buy. This is an opaque white stain. So it looks and covers like paint, but it won’t chip and peel like paint does. Instead it will fade like regular stain.
Didn’t my POP bottle video teach you that I’m not giving in to funny PA words? 🙂
Rebekah,
If you get desperate in your efforts to get your daughter to quit using her pacifier, you may want to try out a visit from the “binky fairy” (or pacifier fairy or whatever word your daughter uses for the pacifier). When we reached the point that we thought our daughter HAD to give up her binky, we told her that that night at bedtime she would need to set out all her binkies on her nightstand for the binky fairy to collect. The binky fairy collects binkies from big girls, sanitizes them, and delivers them to the nurseries of babies. In return, she leaves something to celebrate the fact that you have gone from baby girl to big girl. For our daughter it was a toy she had been asking for, but was told would need to wait until Christmas to receive. I was worried, because our daughter used her binky every night and I thought the first several nights would be horrible. But she didn’t miss it once. She was so excited to be a big girl and to have her toy that marked her passage to “Big Girlhood” to show everyone that she only asked for her binky one time.
Good luck!!!!!
Thanks for the great idea, Julie. I’m certainly no where close to desperate at this point, but I’ll keep this in mind. I guess we’ve just had a shift in priorities when it comes to her pacifier and I wasn’t expecting that.
I stumbled across your blog while researching info about scalding breastmilk, because I was writing a blog entry about the challenges I experienced with excess lipase in my own milk.
Come check out my blog entry–I linked up to your blog, because you have some great info! http://www.tmuffin.com/2011/08/breastfeeding-challenge-excess-lipase.html
And then I saw this checklist, and I think it’s a fabulous idea. I would love to join you. We even have similar goals! I need to wean my toddler off the pacifier at night and rarely brush his teeth in the morning–just because there’s too much other stuff going on! I need someone to hold me accountable!
Gaby, thank you so much for linking to my lipase posts. The more people who are talking about this rare condition, the better!!!
I’ve added you to a list of bloggers to contact if I get this monthly goal link up started. Thank you so much for your interest. I look forward to seeing you around more!
Huge applause to you and thank you for checking up on me and my goals! Now I really have to be on track when I make goals! I haven’t set any for August yet…I seem to get my tush in gear around the 4th or 5th of each month, I can’t seem to get on board by the 1st of the month, weird!
Why do you think I just made a huge list of goals for the entire year instead of some for each month?? I’m too lazy to make new goals each month!!! Plus if I have goals for the year then I don’t have to beat myself up too much if I don’t get certain things done each month. 🙂