Nine Weeks and the adventure of heading west begins! My desk is full of lists! People to contact, subscriptions to change, life is exciting!
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. 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. Really don’t want to clutter my blog up with too many ads.
3. Create a cookbook. This is definitely getting put on hold. Hopefully I’ll have more time once we are relocated, may be postponed until the new year!
4. Be diligent about getting 10K steps in 5 out of 7 days a week. I’ve decided to change this goal to 3 out of 7 days a week! Even so I’m not doing a good job of meeting this goal each week. In my free time I’m either packing or picking raspberries! We’re having the best year ever with our raspberries.
5. As we continue to prepare for our house sale, continue to de-clutter. DONE!! Although we are not done de-cluttering by any means I met my goal of getting rid of 250 items! Big purge this week, canning jars, items from the pantry, pots and pans I don’t plan to move, making progress! Plus my husband got rid of all of his ham radio stuff, he has his ham radio license and was given a box of stuff from my step-father, since he’s never used it he donated it to the local ham radio club, they were thrilled! We also donated a bunch of stuff to one of our neighbors including our little snowblower for the deck. I have a box to go to the local food pantry and other box that I’m offering to friends of items from the pantry! COMPLETED!
6. Read 25 books this year! I’m on track! Finished another book this week! Read The Invention of Wings, by Sue Monk Kidd. She’s the same author that wrote The Secret Life of Bees. I enjoyed this book, there were two main characters Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston and the Grimke’s daughter Sarah. On Sarah’s eleventh birthday she was given ownership of ten year old Handful. The book follows their journeys over the next 35 years. It was a good read. Only 2 books left to read to complete this goal!
7. Have a consistent meal plan each week and prepare ahead. Not happening! My goal is to empty the freezer and the pantry. We also have friends inviting us to dinner which is wonderful! My meal plan each week will be creating meals that use up ingredients I have on hand! this week I used up canned pumpkin from the pantry and made pumpkin muffins!
8. Finish 4 knitting projects. Completed! Made two hats and two scarves. Since this goal is completed I am going to put the baby sweater I was working on aside. I have a hard time knitting when the weather is warm so I will finish this sweater but probably not until the fall!
9. Clean out our freezer. Definitely a priority now! I have only 9 weeks to use up ingredients in the freezer and the pantry! I know we’ll have no problem finished up that ice cream!
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. Calling my aunt this week to arrange a time to come visit. Top priority to see her before we head west! Not so sure we’ll get to Maine to see our friends there.
“Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe,
and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.”
Pablo Picasso
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