June Goals

June.  Can you believe it?  Half the year is almost gone and I feel like we just were waking up on New Years Day!  Seriously, this year is just flying by.

I recently sat down and made a "brain" list for the last part of May.  Basically I took all of May's goals, some misc things that had been sitting on my to do list forever, and ideas from my 100-1001 list and just made one master list.  I knew I wouldn't complete it but figured it would become my June goal list.  I kinda flounder a bit in May because I started babysitting again and had to get into a new routine/plan.  Honestly, I'm still working on that - the house is a zoo most days so I spend a lot of time in the kitchen or dining room where it isn't so crazy.  With that said, I have instituted a new concept for the boys (all three of them) and that is "Chime Time Clean up Time".  Every day when the clock chimes 11:00 and 4:00, they have to stop what they are doing and clean up EVERYTHING - putting everything back in it's proper home and making sure the floor in their room, the living room and the classroom is cleaned up.  We do it in the morning to keep me from going insane by 1:00 in the afternoon and we do it at 4:00 because I feel that it is only fair that the munchkin help clean up before he goes home.  We've only done it for a week and it really has helped.

So, here's what is on my radar for June.

Craft Related Plans
1. Organize my scrapbook paper bag - it got accedently dumped one day by my husband and I haven't taken time to fix it since that time.
2. Erase tabs on my picture dividers
3. Organize Memorabilia for each year so it is ready to go in the scrapbooks
4. Finish up the boys albums including ordering the last bits and pieces
5. Finish up2008 album - just page protectors - hoping to be able to order enough to finish this album :-)
6. Finish up my first blogging book and budget to order it
7. Birthday Board - MUST get moving on this :-)  - Clean out the bin downstairs and get a new one that is clear; make the birthday banner that is in one of my posts
8. Finish saving photos from Memory Manager; delete stuff off of my computer; install new updated programs
9. Make our chore chart and get moving on that concept (tied into our new daily pick up times above)
10. Read Sections 1 and 2 in "How to photography your baby" and do it!!!
11. Make a list of 100 things about me
12. Finish up the John Deere blanket - which will be Nate's truck blanket
13. Purchase racks to hold 2-3 scrapbooks on the wall in the living room
14. Make Seatbelt pillows
15. Make two summer wreaths
16. Quite books - complete the barn page
17. Make Boo Boo Bunnies
18. Make Beach towel blanket
19.  Get letters for "Wash your hands" sign
20. Get H-L and decorate them for my ABC Wall

Travel/Vacation
1. Read through Disney stuff and make a goal date to take the boys
2. Go through camping stuff and start packing
3. Pick up all needed supplies for this camping trip
4. Make Travel bags for our vacation
5. Print off maps/daily stuff/budget/ etc for our vacation
6. Pick our anniversary get away weekend
7. Look at reasonable ideas for our vacation in November so we can start saving

Paperwork
1. Do Feb-May gas receipts (got a little behind on work paperwork oops!) 
2. Get Dental Insurance
3. Order Word a day calender
4. Subscribe to our local paper
5. Make one $25.00 payment on the truck

Homeschool
1. Plan our June and July calender (yes this should be done but since I'm writing my goals a week earlier then this will post . . this still needs to get done!)
2. Go through our school bins and clean them out
3. Print out 4 theme units to use this summer on rainy days
4. Put together about 8-10 crafts to be able to pull out on any given day
5. CLean out the "junk" basket in our classroom
6. Check out the Alligator Sanctuary and Mooville for a fun trip
7. Prep our calendar for next school year to complete all of our lessons.

Yardwork
1. Weed by the garage and lay down mulch.  Find something to plant under the crab apple tree - maybe a few Hostas.
2. Clean out the patio "bed" - would like to plant something there that is hardy and pretty.
3. Power wash the house
4. Paint the house (at least part of it - not sure how far we will get in June)
5. Plan out something new for the front of the house so we can maybe plant some stuff this fall

Organization
1. Finish the basement - my nemesis.  It isn't for lack of trying, trust me. 
2. Set up the play room (the boys are asking for it all the time)
3. Organize our tax documents in our file
4. Put together the car organization kit
5. Organize our DVD's.

Classroom-to-Office area transformation
1. Get carpet laid (someone is giving us nice carpet that they are replacing in their home so we just have to have it "laid".)
2. Measure, measure, and measure for what I want in there and then budget it out at IKEA.  Can't WAIT to be able to get my stuff.

Home Projects - a lot of thinking more than anything
1. The Living Room - we've lived in this house for 10 years and I'm ready for a change :-)  I have ideas of what I want but I want to really put together my idea board so we can tackle this project this winter.  Need to really budget this project out starting with flooring (Yikes!)
2. The kitchen - need to do the countertops and the floor.  :-) I have prices for them but have time to save since we don't do major indoor work in the summer - too hot!! (Paint never ever dries in this house in the summer!)

Lots and Lots on the radar this month.  I like to have lots to choose from knowing when I start that I won't get it all done.  Especially with a camping trip and a vacation thrown in (Which means any project that costs money most likely will get put off . . and just planned for  . . except maybe painting the house - we have to get moving on that one! )