As I expected, September slowed us way down as school started. After having lots of freedom since basically March, my days are taken up again with lots of schooling and trying to come up with a schedule that works for both Josh and Nate (oh, and me too!) Throw in a surgery and we still aren't anywhere close to a routine yet! (Plus our friends JUST went back to school!)
Thankfully, I can mark a few things off my list though!
1. Scrapbooking - 1) This month I have a weekend scrapbook "retreat" planned. It is a Creative Memories Virtual Crop and I have marked it off to participate as much as possible. I even purchased the "secret bundle" to open "live" together online. 2) Finish my nieces graduation book - still trying to get those last letters. 3) Order all March photos for 2011, 2017, 2018, and 2020. I'm just really working towards getting them all printed so I have them. Still want to finish 2019 before I pick my next "year" to work on.1) Well, the "retreat" fell on a busy weekend so I didn't make it a priority so I didn't do anything. I did open my box, which was fun. 2) I'm still trying to wrap up my nieces book - which includes needing a new printer to finish printing things 3) The March photos are ordered and actually already delivered.
2. Reading - 1) Read for fun every single day. 2) Read A Longing for Paris. I decided to try and focus on one book this month my goal word - Peace. And this is the book! 1) I didn't get to read every day but I tried to read as many as possible. The weather is cooler so I have even enjoyed sitting outside on my swing again for 30 minutes and reading. 2) I have not started "A Longing for Paris".
3) Cleaning - Besides doing my weekly home blessing hour (Flylady!) I'm focused this month on the living room. As we pick up with school I feel like I need to focus on the room we spend the most time in and deep clean it (Also Flylady - deep cleaning!) Who knows, I might even steam clean my carpet :-) At the beginning of the month, I wrote a task for each day in order to deep clean the LR. They were 20-60 minute tasks but, I can say that I'm on schedule! I'm hopeful to finish up the last few things on the list this week so I can start October on schedule.
4) Family - Get Josh running shoes. Go camping. We camped. No shoes. HA! Actually, In October I'll have cleaning out Josh and Nate's clothes on my list so when I take Josh to the store to pick out a few things, I'll see about shoes.
5) Homeschool - We are ready to go and will have our first day on Friday, September 11th right after returning from camping. My main goal in September is to have Josh finish on schedule for September; Nate - it will depend on how many days (up to two weeks) he is down after surgery. We are on schedule!
6) Holiday Journal - It's time to get that thing out and remind myself of everything I've forgotten about our holidays! Haven't even looked at this yet.
7) The Basement - 20 minutes a day. That's my goal. Going through boxes and bins and reorganizing things, cleaning things out and setting things up on the shelves so that all is organized. I'm making progress finally! Sometimes I think it will take longer so I don't start but amazingly, Flylady is right, just set a timer for 15 minutes (ok, I do 20) and stop when it goes off. I got through 6 bins - sorted them, and put them away in that time frame. One box at a time, right?
8) Piano - 1) Get the piano tuned 2) Start our at home lessons once again. This is part of the "schedule" that hasn't happened yet.
9) Photography - I got my new book and my goal is to just start on page one, read it and do it. Need to get busy on this one!
10) Spiritual - 1) Read my daily devotional. Nope!
11) Misc Goals: Gather cameras/video cameras and make sure they all work/are charged etc. 2) Continue work on cleaning up the yard 3) Clean the garage now that the door is fixed!! 4) Fill the holes in the yard 5) Clean out both vehicles 6) Get a new flag pole for the front of the house and keep my flags up to date 7) Decorate for fall (I usually do this right at the end of September so I'm adding it to this months goals) 8) Put up outside Halloween Decor (also right at the end of September) 1) Not done 2) Working on it 3) Done 4) Working on it 5) Not done - I just ordered a couple of bags to help organize the vehicles so this is moving to October. 6) Not done 7 and 8) These aren't done yet but will be done this week. The indoor bins are already upstairs to work on this week and I plan on decorating outside by the weekend.
