Last week was Spring Break, and for whatever reason (maybe because I actually had time?), I started to think about my goals. I pulled up my list, and I realized that it read more like a really ridiculous "to do" list rather than a list of goals. I decided I needed to make some changes; I decided I needed to make it less of a "to do" list and more of a "bucket list." After a lot of changes, it is still partly just a "to do" list, but now it includes some really great things that I think could not only challenge me, but also be enjoyable. So, here it is...
101 Things to Do
Start Date: November 22, 2011
End Date: August 17, 2014
Health:
- Weigh 130 lbs.
- Exercise 5 times a week for 1 month
- Strength train two times a week
- Jog for 30 minutes straight
- Run a 5k
- Go on a bike ride on the Katy trail
- Find 10 new healthy recipes for dinner
- Wear my retainer every night for a month
- Get an eye exam!
Family:
- Take a family vacation
- Take a family camping trip
- Do a fun activity as a family once a month for three months
- Go on a cruise with my sister
- Take the boys to the zoo in St Louis
- Take the boys to the science center in St. Louis
- Visit the nature center in Springfield
- Take the boys to a parade
- Get a family photo taken
- Read the boys at least one book every night for a month
- Spend a half an hour each day playing with the boys – NO distractions!
- Have a movie night once a month with Logan for three months
- Buy a Christmas tree for the boys to decorate Completed November 2011
Marriage:
- Have one date night out of the house every month
- Read Love and Respect with Justin
- Go on a vacation just the two of us
- Make our next three anniversaries special
- Read a book for fun with Justin
- Spend one night a week just the two of us for a month
Friends:
- Get together with Rae, Marcia, and Miranda
- Continue sending monthly emails to Rae, Marcia, & Miranda
- Get Rae a baby gift Completed December 2011
- Get Miranda a baby gift
- Plan a get together with Derek & Sarah at least twice a year
- Plan summer play dates for the boys and me!
Spiritual:
- Pray every night for thirty days
- Pray as a family before dinner
- Read a daily devotional every morning for a month
- Read the entire Bible
- Have God time for 30 minutes every day for 30 days
- Do a personal book study
- Write in my prayer journal every night for a month
- Get baptized again?
Financial:
- Save money by spending more than $50 per month on eating out for 31 days
- Pay off our credit card
- Build up a savings account again
- Get Logan’s savings account to $750
- Get Gavin’s savings account to $500
- Get the boys bunk beds
- Buy new car seats for Logan Completed January 2012
Household:
- Landscape the front yard with stones
- Learn how to plant a garden
- Plant a summer garden
- Put up a privacy fence in the backyard
- Start recycling
- Learn how to compost
- Learn how to coupon
- Plan eight weeks of menus that can be rotated
- Pack away all of the boys’ outgrown clothing Completed February 2012
- Pack away all of the infant toys Completed February 2012
- Donate all of our baby clothes and gear to Goodwill (or someone)
- Paint (and decorate?) the laundry room
- Repaint and redecorate the guest bathroom
- Repaint and redecorate the master bathroom
- Clean out and reorganize the hall closet
- Clean out and reorganize kitchen cabinets
- Replace the air filter in the heater every six months
- Frame and hang collages of the boys
- Re-hang Gavin’s birth announcement in his bedroom
- Find a new, space-saving way to store DVDs
- Re-organize and find space for all of our photo books Completed March 2012
- Create a weekly cleaning schedule
- Stick to a weekly cleaning schedule for one month
Personal:
- No TV for 30 days
- Make an address/telephone book of all friends and family
- Send out Christmas cards
- Send birthday cards to all immediate family members and close friends for a year
- Finish our Beach Vacation scrapbook
- Finish Logan’s second year scrapbook
- Make Logan’s third year scrapbook
- Finish updating Gavin’s baby book
- Finish updating Logan’s baby book
- Update Logan’s portrait book
- Create a portrait book for Gavin
- Blog every day for a month
- Comment on each blog I read at least once a week for a month
- Watch all of my seasons of One Tree Hill
- Take a photography class
- Learn how to use the white balance on my camera
- Learn how to use the different flash settings on my camera
- Participate in You Capture every week for three months
- Complete a 365 photo challenge
- Learn how to use photoshop (take a class???)
- Keep my car clutter free, vacuumed, and dusted for 3 months
- Play clarinet in a concert band
- Get a manicure
- Get a massage
- Find a really great red/pink lipstick
- Learn to shoot a gun…and do it well!
- Learn how to grill using charcoal (or gas too!)
Work:
100. Re-organize and write units for Communications
101. Find two new novel units that can be used in any class
