My first goal was to update my goal list each week. We are almost halfway through the year, can you believe it! I am really enjoying keeping my goals in the forefront. Some goals I am doing really well at, like reading and completing my knitting projects. Others, like getting 10 K steps at least 5 days each week, I still haven’t accomplished! I have to say that thinking about the goals each week is keeping me motivated to complete them.
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Find a new hosting site for my blog and make it secure.Done!! So excited after all this time I finally have a secure website!- Monetize my blog. In the works, I have set up an account with Amazon Affiliates! Soon you’ll be seeing links to my favorite items on Amazon. Next on the list is to look into Google Ad Sense. I’ve also teamed up with an amazing heirloom seed company. Mary’s Heirloom Seeds are a great source. check out their site, right now they are having an amazing 99 Cent Seed Pack sale! Click here for more information.
- Create a cookbook! One step at a time, get the blog running smoothly, increase readership and then I’ll be working on the cookbook!
- Be diligent about getting 10 K steps in 5 out of 7 days each week. Managed to get 10K steps in 4 days out of 7, almost to my goal! We’ve been having the most beautiful weather which helps!
- As we continue to prepare for an eventual house sale, continue to de-clutter. The push was on this weekend to de-clutter. Our local school has a large Tag Sale over Memorial Day Weekend. We filled up the car with all the items we’ve put aside plus 60 more items! – 74 items to go!
- Read 25 books this year! With the nicer weather I am spending less time reading and more time outdoors. Read one of my favorite authors this week Kristin Hannah. I could not put down her latest book The Great Alone. The book takes place in Alaska in the 1974. Ernt Allbright, a former POW comes homes from Vietnam a changed and violent man. He decides to move his wife and daughter to Alaska where they will live off grid. It deals with love and an abusive relationship. Once I started it I could not put it down! Still keeping track of the books I’ve read on Good Reads, what a wonderful app. I can keep track of all the books I have read, the books I want to read and the books I am reading. I listed on the app that I want to read 25 books this year, 7 to go! Beginning to think my goal here should have been a few more books!
- Have a consistent meal plan each week and prepare ahead! Did some cooking out of a new cookbook I was asked to review, Prep Ahead Breakfasts & Lunches, the book is amazing. Prep-Ahead Breakfasts and Lunches was just released. This book is filled with delicious make-ahead breakfast and lunch recipes, so you can quickly and easily make breakfasts and lunches for the whole week in just an hour or two on the weekend. Make your mornings flow smoother with premade breakfasts and prepacked lunches! I made a batch of Cajun Egg Breakfast Croissants, so good! We enjoyed them for breakfast and I froze the rest for later!
Each recipe includes storage tips and if necessary, reheating instructions. Click on the image below to order!
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Finish 4 knitting projects.Completed! Made two hats and two scarves! Over the weekend I found a few more projects that need to be finished to I will keep knitting!
- Clean out our freezer. Such progress! Freezer is well under control now. My goal is to just have a weeks worth of food in the freezer with the exception of bread, tomato sauce and nuts which I store in our freezer. Made a delicious Blueberry Dutch Baby using up the last of the frozen blueberries. I’ll be sharing the recipe on Friday.
- Take a few road trips and visit family and friends on the east coast that we will not see so often once we make a move to the west coast. Our trip to North Carolina will be next month. We’ll be gone a week and will be able to visit family and at least three friends! Looks like we’ll have a long day of driving the first day but after that it will be manageable. It will be the perfect way to celebrate the beginning of summer. Plus we’ve been meaning to visit our friends in North Carolina for years! Hoping to get two other trips in this summer, one to Maine and the other to upstate New York.
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Can you believe it’s May already! Another month and half the year will be gone. I’m so thankful to be keeping track of my goals, I think I will have a good chance at completing them all!
This month I also have a few goals related to the self-reliance challenge I am part of. My husband and I have always had the goal of being more self-sufficient each year.
The goals for this month of May Challenge are the following:
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- Get my vegetable garden planted. Managed to get some seeds in the ground, still too chilly for many vegetables.
- Do a foray and look for wild leeks. Think it’s still too early but am hoping to get into the woods this week and take a look. We have several spots we like to check out.
- Make my own bread this month and don’t buy any store bought bread! Made bread two weeks ago and have one loaf still in the freezer, I sure don’t make bread as often as I used to with four children under the roof!
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Best wishes with your goals, Nancy! I need to set some more long term goals…so far I’m doing well if I plan a week ahead!
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Lisa,
this is the first year I have done goals and flowed through with them. Such a good feeling.
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