I have found that the only way I get anything accomplished is to have a clear path to follow. I am absolutely not a fly by the seat of my pants type of person. So this year I have decided to lay out some goals to strive for and see how I do. We shall see.
- Go on a date with Denton every single week. Marriage is work people. Don’t let anyone tell you differently. It’s not bad work, but it is something that needs to be tended to and nurtured. Your spouse is one of the most important people in your life, you should want to spend time with them and cultivate that relationship.
Ah, dates. Does going to the dentist together count? A small space, intimate surroundings, quite conversation for over an hour. That counts right? Denton’s schedule has to let up soon.
- Free Friday Download from Kroger each week. Free stuff people, what’s not to love?
And again I completely forgot. Did you get it?
- Try a new recipe each week I have lists and lists of new recipes that I have saved to my Evernote account, and hundreds of cookbooks, that are just sitting there forlornly waiting on me to try them and see how delicious they are. This is the year to find new foods that my family will enjoy.
No new recipe this week, too busy with floors.
- Track our grocery spending Spent $93.52
- Got back: $1.00 Ibotta; $0.25 Checkout 51; $0.16 from Savings Catcher
Last year I set out grocery budget at $100 for each week. That’s for essentially four adults. It worked very well for most weeks. This year I wanted to actually track the numbers to see how well.
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- List something new on Etsy and Ebay each week
I find so many beautiful treasures each week that I can’t keep them all. Otherwise our house would like a hoarders episode. So, I pass them along to other lovely people via Etsy and Ebay.
Nope, still busy with floors.
- The donation box Mine is a pink tote that I keep in my closet. Everyone knows that if something doesn’t fit anymore, it goes into the pink tote.
This week I didn’t get anything taken in. I had stuff to take, it just didn’t actually make it to the Salvation Army. Next week.
- Read a new book each week I will forever love Nora Roberts but sometimes you have to broaden your horizons, right?
Along with rereading the Nora Roberts books from the Key trilogy, I also read through Southern Living’s Feel Good Food. I love this book, it has some really great recipes in it. Hopefully I will find some free time and show you one of them next week.
- Gardening of some sort Every single year, Denton and I decide that we are going to plant a small garden. And then life comes along and gets in the way. Hopefully since this is on my list, I can remember to tackle this one this year.
I recycled some of my old plastic planters that I know I am not going to reuse this coming summer. That counts in the gardening department right? In my world it does.
- House project’s
This week Hayden and I finished the dining room floor. Woo-hoo! I love checking things off of my to-do list. We also started on the kitchen, it’s about 1/4 of the way finished. Hopefully this week.
- Track how much water I’m drinking ~ I know that I need to be drinking more water every single day, so I’m going to keep track and see how I’m doing. I also know that you have zero interest in how much water I’m drinking, just skip this portion if you like!
I’m still only getting down around 2 glasses of water each day. I hope to up that in the coming weeks by using my Contigo water bottle. It’s spill proof and I need that in my life. You should get yourself one, they come in multiple colors and I love it.
That’s it from me this week, what about you? How did you do?
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