(February updates are in purple)
1. Do reading and devotionals every day with hubby Well, we're both reading. We are not doing it together as much as we had planned. (Hi, husband. You are reading this from work. Let's make sure we stay on track!) Family devotionals with the children are happening. Not exactly doing our reading and devotionals together. But we are praying together and discussing our individual readings each day. More later about my conversion to Catholicism (and return to it, in my husband's case)
2. Have fun homeschooling! What a blessing. Homeschooling has been a huge lifestyle change and I am beyond grateful for what it has meant for us as a family already in just these last six weeks. Summer vacation is in full force and not a lot of homeschooling is happening. However, we are about to get serious with some summer goals. Lucky kids!!
3. Remember to be cheerful Check. Or should that be, CHECK!!!! Grumble grumble...quote of the night: "Honey, I'm very stressed...I'm going to cry but it's nothing serious."
4. Take the kids out of the house on hubby's sleeping days Funny how this is impossible NOT to do now that it's summer :)
5. Take the kids to North Pole, Alaska OR go clamming. Or both.
6. Camp near Denali
7. Have a yummy meal of stew at the public use cabin in the ER Nature Center
8. Go to Barrow and take a tour
9. FINALLY have an awesome vacation with JUST my hubby! Thanks to our good friend's generous offer to get married in Puerta Vallarta, we're all set to be there and witness it. :)
10. Organize and redo the kids' room We have made a couple changes which have increased their organization, but it still is not the bastion of interior design that I had hoped. Um, like pretty much the whole house. This has happened.
11. Keep up with all three blogs Nooooooooooo. I had every intention of maintaining a third blog but I opted to take it down when it became clear I could not keep up and do the material justice.
12. Finish Bachelors degree (the Univ. of Iowa one) In progress! Finishing up right now
13. Help Wolf with his Tiger Cub Scout badges Happening! Wolf is a Wolf scout now
14. Reorganize upstairs medicine cabinet, downstairs drawers, entryway, and my closet 50% accomplished 51% accomplished
15. Write Noah monthly and fly down in March and October The March visit did not happen, but we had a lovely surprise visit for his birthday. Now he's here for the summer.
16. Devise a decent photo organization system for my computer Still complaining about Vista but not actually doing anything about it.
17. Print all photos and arrange into books I just picked up a box of 500 photos from Costco today...it's all 2006-2007.
18. Continue reading good books nightly with kids I have never read as much with my children as I have since we began homeschooling. I cannot imagine they were reading this much before. I am laughing because now I can't keep Wolfgang from reading books these days. It is very confusing to discipline him when the reason he's disobeying me is because he "just needs to read a few more pages."
19. Keep the TV off most of the time Yep. We moved our TV out of the house two months ago, which has resulted in the aforementioned disciplinary issues pertaining to excessive book-reading.
20. Enhance my femininity in husband-pleasing ways (that's just between us)
21. Continue meeting weekly with friends
22. Do more girly things with my girly daughter Funny story about this...I really must blog.
23. Go berry-picking as a family at least twice
24. Outline book idea and schedule time weekly to work on it Hmm. Which book idea was this?
25. Throw a birthday party for twins and Wolf We threw a party for the twins!
26. Continue getting back in touch with family members Yes; what a blessing.
27. Stay on top of dentists, physicals, etc. for kids and us Yep
28. Keep up with menu planning and freezer cooking Peaks and valleys, peaks and valleys Ouch...am on another planet with this one
29. Get the incorrect tax lien off my credit report and any other corrections
30. Continue sponsoring our sponsor kids and write them every month We just received a slew of letters...starting to put together some goodies to send their way.
31. Put some framed prints in our home
32. Finalize family documents
33. Get a passport (soon!) Ack. Really must get on this.
34. Discuss, plan, and prepare to implement (and possibly implement) pregnant teen sponsor program Have met with a couple people about this...am doing so again this month.
35. Go dip-netting at least once Coming up
36. Start sprouting seeds
37. Get mentored
38. Organize the emergency kits (right now, they are a mishmash of supplies)
39. Go to Iditarod kickoff in Willow Better get this on the calendar soon. It's coming up. This was very exciting.
40. Have an outing or playtime with just one of our kids at least once a month Simply writing this down has made it a more frequent occurrence, as I am looking for the opportunities.
Just like last time, some of these items have been relegated to the perpetual list of the "To Do" with no end in sight. I need to schedule the time to get some of the boring stuff out of the way.
Hey! I'm not sure when we're dipnetting, possibly next weekend and then again near the end of the month (you still want to come with us?) BUT, we're also into the clamming, which we're going to do again on the next clam tide (in Ninilchik), which looks to be around July 23-25, if I'm reading it correctly. You're welcome to hook up with us on that one if you want!
ReplyDeleteThat's quite the list. I loved the quote on #3 about crying, but it's nothing serious.
ReplyDeleteAlso, that's hilarious that the lack of TV has led to disciplinary problems because Wolfy won't stop reading!