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.
My birthday was this past week. Denton brought me flowers, candy, pistachios, a beautiful and lovely card, and he made dinner and dessert. Well, he bought dessert. But it was awesome, and I’m counting that as a date. Just because we didn’t go anywhere and both kids were here did not negate the fact that it was extremely romantic in my eyes. It was lovely. And I’ll still take any dates that our kid’s want to be in on for as long as they’ll do it. How many other teenagers want to spend time with their parents?
- Free Friday Download from Kroger each week. Free stuff people, what’s not to love?
Woohoo! I actually remembered this week. Did you get your free PowerBar Protein bar?
- 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. But I did buy another cool cookbook.
- Track our grocery spending Spent $109.24 at Kroger and $50.91 at Food Lion
- Got back: $0.75 Ibotta; $0.25 Checkout 51; $0.00 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.
It’s all still here. In my house.
- 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 took 109 items to our local Salvation Army. Most of it was from Liv’s summer closet. But I did get out in the garage and donate some of my gardening stuff that I know I won’t use this summer.
- Read a new book each week I will forever love Nora Roberts but sometimes you have to broaden your horizons, right?
Hayden asked me get him a Neil Gaiman book from the library and after he read it he asked me to read it. Stardust. I’m almost through it, and I like it. It’s nothing like I imagined. Hayden hates to read the flyleaf of books, so he asked me not to and I went into the book blind. It’s very interesting to do that with a book. Have you ever?
Of course I also had a copy of The Bountiful Container by Rose Marie Nichols McGee and Maggie Stuckey on my nightstand all week. Have you picked this book up? I love it. Spring, I need you.
- 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.
This week I went through all of my planters and donated a bunch to our Salvation Army. Do you collect them like leaves too?
- House project’s
Hayden and I worked on the flooring again this week. We finished the kitchen!!! Yay! Don’t mind the water line and electrical cord from the fridge in to photo.
Of course none of the trim is up yet, but we’ll get to it. I swear that the people who built our house were complete morons. But never fear. If you buy my beautiful house when we eventually put it on the market, we have fixed EVERY. SINGLE. PROBLEM. that they did to my poor, lovely house. For instance, who puts the trim onto the sub-floor and then lays the flooring up onto the trim!?! Yes, yes they did. No worries though, we have corrected all the things.
- 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 up to 3 glasses a day now. Yay for me!
That’s it from me this week, what about you? How did you do?
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