My original goal in March was to knock a lot of things out. March had other plans HA! Instead of focusing on what went wrong I'll tell you the outcomes. Ready? Our furnace motor is now fully fixed (it only took 3 visits, one brand new motor, and then brand new parts for the new motor because some parts failed), my trailblazer is running beautifully again after some normal repairs and new tires, our piano is beautifully tuned and repaired (it plays better than it ever has), my washer is fixed and running once again, and the staph infection that invaded my face is fully cleared up. HA! What a month! BUT, now that all of that is done and over with AND everyone seems to finally be healthy I feel like we can start marking things off the list! Quarter one of this year is done so it is time to start quarter number 2 strong!
Here's an update on my March goals - if there is nothing written next to it, it means I didn't do anything with that goal this month.
Here are my March goals:
- Follow the declutter 365 plan for March and do every task that applies to me. I plan to review the March calendar and mark off any tasks that don't fit my home/life. Then I will take the items from January and February that I did not accomplish and fill those in with the goal to be caught up with the Declutter 365 plan by the end of March.
- Make sure and go through all of my 17 areas to touch in this first 3 months
- Follow Flylady weekly plan for decluttering then cleaning each room - 15 minutes at a time. My goal once again is to complete the daily tasks in each area each day. If there is additional time I'd love to work on decluttering but I also declutter both through the 365 calendar and room cleaning.
- Pick a room cleaning - 15 minutes decluttering
- My focus this month is the dining room. I'm hoping to "empty" it as much as possible so that I can deep clean it right down to the corners. I might even do some rearranging. The last week of March I was finally able to start in the dining room. I will continue working in April to finish up the deep clean and move on from there.
- If I finish that I plan to try and get more done in the bathroom.
- AND if I am EXTRA this month - I will start on the Living Room - same idea as the dining room - "empty" it so I can deep clean it.
- Spend 15-20 minutes a day cleaning the basement - this months goal is still the laundry room side. Again, the last week of the month I was able to finally start this with clearing out the laundry room.
- Finish all of the odds and end in Josh's room (hang things, paint closet) .
- Replace a board in Nate's bed that is broken.
- Replace burned out lightbulbs inside and outside
- Go on a date with Darryl Done!
- Read! As many books as possible but at least the 2 for my book clubs and to read 6 books total! Done!
- Do my daily Bible study, prayer journal and word study
- Scrapbook
- Finish 2017 and 2018 This goal is changing. Why? I thought I only had November-December for each year; thinking I had finished the rest and just couldn't find my finished pages. In cleaning the dining room I found . . .not the pages! Instead I found the photos for January-October for both years. Oops! Instead I am packing away the rest of the photos/finished pages and working on 2011 first since that is the oldest year unfinished.
- Scrapbook January 2025
- Upload March photos and order them. Done
- Do virtual scrapbooking weekend I missed this - I think we ended up with a busy weekend.
- Co-Op
- Make Presentation Night signs Done
- Work on my Joyful video. Done
- Figure out Google Docs so that I can begin uploading docs to that for anyone to see/print.
- Write out my "job description" as Secretary. Really looking for a rough draft that I can add to over the next few months so that it is accurate.
- Take Homeschool Curriculum to our Co-Op Blessings table that we aren't using or are done with at this point. Oops! I missed this date and forgot I was going to do this so now I'm going to try and sell some of what I have.
- Practice my piano song until I can play it for offertory and then pick a new one; Practice a song with the family to do as special music. I picked a song and have practiced it but still have a few weeks before I'll need to play giving me more time to practice.
- Update some seasonal items - Find some cute things for spring/Easter Done!
- Write my blogs each week Done!
- In March our quarterly family activity is going to be going to see a Movie (we received gift cards for Christmas) and dinner out. We didn’t see a movie but we did go out to lunch all together and not fast food!
- Plan Easter (yes it is in April but I like to plan ahead)
- Finances - continue to work on tracking everything and limit spending
- Computer clean -up - Go through every file on my computer and clean things out.
- Depending on the weather - I'd like to tackle the spring cleaning of the garage. This includes emptying it, cleaning it, and putting things back in their rightful homes. (If we end up with a cold March this will get pushed to April!)
- Cut the cord on cable and figure out the least expensive way to watch what we love.
- Clean out my filing cabinet - it is time to organize it once again! About 1/2 way through this task
- Clean out our firebox - it has been a long time.
- Buy and hang curtains in my Living Room. They are purchased!
- Register my teens for all of their weeks of summer camp. Done!
- Pick out and (hopefully) order Josh's 11th (WHAT!) grade curriculum.
- Not sure how to measure this but I also need to wrap my head around things like maybe doing duel enrollment (Both Josh and Nate) if that is a possibility; researching schooling options with Josh as he looks at his career ideas, as well as other post high school things. Hard to believe we are at this point!
- Update my calendar with all of the dates that I currently have for the rest of the year (I feel a little behind on this as someone gave me a calendar but after using it (or not using it because I don't love it) I decided to order the one I've used the last few years that I love.) Done!
