With February drawing to a close, it’s time once again for a goals and resolutions update. Tto be on target, I need to have 8 items marked off by the end of Feburary.
Finished:
I have actually completed 5 goals: organize craft supplies, tile bathroom floor, decluttering & organizing the house, cut 20% off grocery budget, and Using cloth diapers.
The decluttering and organizing came with the help of my Dear Mother-in-love who came to visit us from Brazil (or Brasil if you prefer). Well, I think she really came to visit little Wiggles. Either way, her visit gave me the opportunity to declutter some piles and organize my craft supplies.
I cut the grocery budget WAY down by shopping in our pantry and just not going to the grocery store. When I empty our shelves and freezer, we will be looking at buying another 1/4 or 1/2 cow and maybe we will have some early garden produce by then (one can hope).
Look for a post in the next week about our experience with cloth diapering.
In Progress:
There are a lot of goals in progress: Wedding album, make bed daily, grow a square foot garden, inviting company over, drinking water, blogging daily, keeping in touch with family and friends, doing my morning routine, paying off student loans. A lot of these are on-going projects that I won’t really be able to mark off until the end of the year.
Focus for March:
In March I am going to finish up my wedding album design. I will have to wait to print it until I can save up my hobby money. I also really must start on a baby album. Wiggles is growing too fast, and my memory is getting shorter. I have been keeping a few notes on the calendar so I can remember important dates.
We are ramping up for gardening season here, and I will be starting some seeds inside early in March.
I am also going to put in some serious effort at getting fit. As soon as the snow melts, I’m going to get outside and start running.
Canceled:
Brenton and I had some financial discussions this month and decided to cancel or reduce a few projects we had in mind for this summer. The specific projects that were canceled are building cabinets in the front bedroom, opening up the front porch, and building bookshelves for the living room. I can still work on these as my hobby money allows, but they are not in the main budget for the time being.
Basically that means I have 5 goals completed and 3 canceled for this year. Looks like I’m on schedule so far.
Finally, I’ve got a lot of projects in progress.
