Goal Setting Week 19

The year is flying by. I have to say my goal setting took a back seat to gardening and getting our house ready for professional photos for the realtor! It’s a nice feeling to have all of our garden beds mulched and the vegetable garden planted. Now we just need a buyer.

1. Find a new hosting site for my blog and make it secure. Done! This was the first goal accomplished this year and I am so happy to have a secure website.

2. Monetize my blog. This is in the works, I have set up two affiliate accounts. Soon you’ll be seeing links to my favorite items on amazon. I’ve also teamed up with an amazing heirloom seed company, Mary’s Heirloom Seeds. The .99 cent sale is still going on. Plus she’s got a lot of other great offers on her site.  Click here for more information.

3. Create a cookbook. One step at a time, as we are now in the gardening seasoning and I’m spending as much time as I can outside this goal might be pushed off until later this summer.

4. Be diligent about getting 10K steps in 5 out of 7 days a week. YES! Accomplished this goal this week! With all the gardening, mulching and spending time outside as well as walking with a friend I managed to get over 10 thousand steps in for 5 of the 7 days! Not always easy but I love it when I can say I accomplished this! Plus June is so beautiful in Vermont, who doesn’t want to be outside!

5. As we continue to prepare for an eventual house sale, continue to de-clutter. Made no progress on this goal this week. We have things that we will pass along when we get an offer, but I’m beginning to wonder if I’ve de-cluttered as far as I can for the moment? Still have  73 items to go.

6. Read 25 books this year! Still reading a book called The Insanity of Obedience. Very good and very meaty book. I have to admit I did not get much reading done this past week. May have more of a chance this week as we are supposed to have some rainy weather. 7 books to go!

7. Have a consistent meal plan each week and prepare ahead. I am loving the new book I was asked to review called Prep Ahead Breakfasts & Lunches. We’ve just about finished up the baked oatmeal I made last week. It was so good. Think I’ll make something else from this book this week.

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8. Finish 4 knitting projects. Completed! Made two hats and two scarves. Found a baby sweater that I’d started years ago so I’m going to keep knitting and finish that sweater. Did not accomplish even one stitch this week!

9. Clean out our freezer. I am down to tomato sauce, some frozen rhubarb, frozen breakfast sandwiches and a loaf of carrot zucchini bread. Not bad. Our kitchen freezer is pretty much under control I have some frozen peppers to use up and some frozen vegetables. Love the progress. Used up some frozen peas from our upstairs freezer this week. Even though I’m not doing much canning this year I did see a recipe for Vanilla Rhubarb Jam which looks very good and I do have that frozen rhubarb to use up!

10. Take a few road trips and visit family and friends on the east coast that we will not see as often once we move to the west coast. Just a few more weeks until we head off on our road trip! So thankful for friends to watch the house so we can go visit our southern friends!

 

I did not make much progress at all on the goals this week. Should be able to finish the knitting project on our road trip and I’m thinking of renewing our Audible membership so we can listen to a few books while driving. What are your favorite books for road trips?

 

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