Insane Goals: April Update

Another month has past.  Here is how I did with my list of goals last month.

April Accomplishments:

1.  This month instead of having a couple or family over to meet our hosting goal, I threw Nate a birthday party!  Since the party included 11 adults and 6 kids, I figured that would count for the month.   😉

2.  Grace and I made it all the way through her baby Bible.  We started a new children’s bible storybook, but I haven’t been as consistent as I was with the other one.

3.  Nate & I enjoyed a fun double date night with friends.  Both husbands have birthdays in the same week, so we celebrated by trying out Red Robin for the first time.

4.   I was hoping that we could buy some patio furniture this year, but now it looks like we won’t have to.  Nate was blessed with some as a birthday gift from his parents!  If anyone else wants to take over any of my goals, just let me know.   😀

5.  Grace has been doing even better with the stairs this month.  I’m officially considering this an accomplished task.  Brushing her teeth in the morning is another story.

6.  My biggest accomplishment this month was to reorganize the bathroom.  We were struggling with storage space until we purchased a cabinet last month.  This month I went through everything and tried to rethink how things were being organized.  I can’t believe I was able to purge 48 things from my bathroom!

One thing that really helped my organization of the bathroom was to take 2 empty boxes from My Do-NOT-Go-In-There Guest Room Overhaul and used 1 to organize my stock pile of bathroom supplies and the other for odd thing like shoe polish and travel items.

April Disappointments:

1.  I hate my garden.

2.  I did a bad job sending out cards this month.  In honor of that, I would like to take this moment to say, “Happy Anniversary!” to my sister and her husband.  Ha!

3.  I didn’t have a single “me night” in April.  I can feel it.  My patience is running low.  I’ve gotta get out of this house!

4.  My cleaning checklist is still a huge help to me, but I really felt myself slacking off this month.  The house still looked fine, but there were many boxes left unchecked this month.

5. Overall, this month feels disappointing.  Sure, I have 6  accomplishments listed, but I’m pretty bummed about my garden.  I’m hoping that next month I can do more with my photographs and personal goals.

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.  She currently loves drinking water from it, but isn’t impressed with the frozen breast milk I’ve been giving her.
• 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 fruit instead 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.

Each month I will check in and let you  know how I’m coming on my insanely long list of goals. I hope that with you keeping me accountable that I’ll be able to accomplish great things this year!