In addition to my listed goals, each week I also plan to bake bread, prepare a Sunday School lesson, make all meals and snacks, teach school to the children, do laundry, etc.
This week I plan to make yogurt and granola, bake yeast breads 3-4 times, bake quick breads at least twice, and make salad dressing.
I also want to get more sewing projects done. Liberty’s birthday is coming up and I am planning to make at least one, if not two, new dresses for her before then. I want to work on one of them (a pink gingham dress) this week.
Last Week’s Goals:
Garden Goals:
1. Do some weeding and pruning (mostly tree pruning), and fill at least 2 trash cans. I filled 5 trash cans.
2. Plant more Swiss chard seeds.
3. Run more water lines in the front yard. I also planted some seeds for fall; I’m taking a chance planting them this early but with temperatures cooling down to the mid-90’s this week I am hoping that some of my fall flowers will come up earlier.
4. Plant more bushes in the front yard
Sewing Goals:
1. Finish dress for Winter
2. Finish dress for Wren
3. Mend at least 3 items I mended eleven items.
Organizational Goals:
1. Finish organizing the sewing room.
Website and Blog Goals:
1. Write and photograph 3 blog posts
Family Goals:
1. Correct all schoolwork
2. Edit pictures of the children
3. Make new bookmarks for my dad and my mom
Personal Goals:
1. Go on a bicycle ride at least twice this week. I also decided that I will make those 2 days my regular days to ride.
This Week’s Goals:
Garden Goals:
1. Do some weeding and pruning (mostly tree pruning), and fill at least 2 trash cans.
2. Plant more Swiss chard seeds.
3. Plant yellow squash seeds
Sewing Goals:
1. Finish dress for Winter
2. Finish dress for Wren
3. Mend at least 3 items
4. Work on dress for Liberty
Organizational Goals:
1. Finish organizing the sewing room.
Website and Blog Goals:
1. Write and photograph 3 blog posts
Family Goals:
1. Correct all schoolwork
2. Take new pictures of Ivory
3. Order prints of the children to hang up
Personal Goals:
1. Go on a bicycle ride at least twice this week.
Im not doing anything that requires me to turn on the oven this week(temps getting back in the 90’s here, with really high humidity. I got drenched just walking the little one half a block to school this morning)I need to get my fall seeds started, hubby is supposed to build me a small hoop house once we fully harvest what’s still growing. http://ithinkicansquared.blogspot.com/2013/08/weekly-goals_26.html
I am trying to decide when to call it quits with my tomatoes, I have only gotten a few at a time all season, my cucumber fried, and my peppers are still producing, my onions died back and came back up, some in places I thought I had pulled all the onions out, they never get very big, but I have decided that is okay, they keep reproducing faster than we eat them so its all good.My goals this week are to finish up the bedroom transfer, we moved one child into her own room and moved the baby into a big bed over a week ago. Already there is less fighting and I am less stressed because baby stays in her bed and isn’t climbing out of a crib and into my bed at night.In addition I am going to try to can some peaches, we got a peach sale this week for .67lb I thought I had missed all the peaches, these are southern US peaches. This is my first year canning.I’d also like to make some progress clearing out our garage, we want to put up a Lego table out there.
Good Morning, Sound like a very busy week. I am a list maker and I love to journal. And of course I am a blogger:)But I am not a goal task kind kinda girl! I feel anxious and overwhelmed by it. I do believe my steps are ordered of the Lord, so I take comfort in I am always in the right place at the right time.But I love reading your ideas and the sweet way you plan out your family week. Blessings to you! Roxy
We are in the low 90’s the last few days which is only the 2nd time this summer has gone over 80’s. It will really give the crops a much needed boost.
I like that you include exercise time in with all your other goals. We are focusing on cleaning out our basement right now. We have been giving things away to people that an use them.
I don’t usually exercise but I have found something that I like so I am working on incorporating a realistic exercise goal for myself. It doesn’t burn a lot of calories, however 🙂 I did enjoy it, though!
Last week1. pepper jelly, mint jelly —done2. buy RR mailbox—done, needs to be cemented in yet3. dishwasher, priced and ordered and delivery set up4. 4 season room plans—looked at DIY, made list friend/relatives willing to help5. Swing for patio. No luck finding one for sale any where. Thinking of putting a slatted pergola like canopy over whole patio, the kind that lets dappled light through and then hanging swing from that. 6. Cleaning house mostly done. Will do floors after dishwasher in. 7. Finish tea cozy—done except for these elusive rosettes I need to make. Still cannot find instructions. Will experiment.8. Books cataloged and handed off to my volunteers for covering etc. Bulletin boards thought of in mind and ideas sketched. Book totals all added and info off to secretary re the reading program.This Week:1. Buy Summer reading program awards (gift cards (x5) from local bookstore) and fill in 41 certificates with names, # books read and # pages. Stop at Hardee restaurant and pick up 41 coupons for free ice cream or cookie. 2. Plan menu for Labor Day/birthday get-together. Finalize how many coming and staying over. Make a list of who is bring what dish to pass. Assign items as needed.3. Buy fireworks as needed, after checking to see what left from Fourth of July. Men will go do actual buying.4. Harvest, can, freeze multiple things. Dry more herbs. 5 Find something to do with small bag okra given to me. Have only had deep fried but I don’t do that. I hear it is a good soup thickener but do not make soup in summer. Possibly slice and pan fry with onions and potatoes.6. Make sweetened condensed milk, then make fudge sauce and a batch of coconut pecan frosting. 7. Make appointment for piano tuner.8. Reinstall clothes line at new house.9. Email older son list of items needed from Trader Joe and or co-op. Spices, wheat gluten etc. so he can bring up when he comes for the weekend.10. Trim each others hair.11 Give dog a bath while nice and hot outside still.12. Decide best layout for new garden. Will be much smaller than present. Husband will probably remove sod and use, or may just smother grass with boxes or black plastic. Build new composting area.
I get my exercise when I take my two sons for a walk. My baby’s nickname is “Jillian Michaels” because he just wants to go and go and GO.
1. Process peaches, pears, tomatoes, bell peppers and okra from yesterday’s Farmer’s Market trip.2. Drain and scrub inside of hot tub (Hazard of being unplugged during last week’s vacation trip)3, Clean car thoroughly including shampooing carpet ( Another vacation hazard)4. Attack laundry room/studio. Messiest.Room.Ever5. Plant more herbs and get fall garden ready to plant6. Make a concise Trader Joe’s list for trip to Atlanta this weekend. (Envy all with a Trader Joe’s in their city)
That recipe for granola sounds super good! I want to make my own one of these days. I know you didn’t get everything done on your list last week, but how cool that you went over and above on somethings like weeding and mending.We have a pile of brush and rocks in our backyard that the previous homeowners left. I told myself a half an hour I needed to commit to cleaning it up. Turned into about an hour and a half and still working on burning this afternoon as it burns off. Sometimes, it just takes the motivation to start!
What kind of roses do you want to make there are tons of how tovideos on you tube I used make some out of ribbon by folding and stiching on the bottom round and round the more times you wrapthe bigger it gets you can also put a bead in the middle. Hope that makes sense.Good luckPatti