November Goals Results

Specific Events for this month -

Thanksgiving  -  We enjoyed 2 parties with family

Birthday Party for Cats and Pony. - Party went well, though most of the guests stayed home after bad weather was predicted.  Yet it was a beautiful day!

My sister wants us to come listen to somebody Parson at her church. - Story and Scholar rode along with Papa, Mimi, and Aunt V.

Basket ball season has began rolling ... and we can only find ONE of the Ref's new shirts.  -  Ended up having to purchase a second shirt.  He's had quite a few games the last 2 weeks.

My primary goal this month is to get our days into a rhythm and schedule. - Not even CLOSE to a rhythm to our days.  I'm setting this goal aside for January.

Overall - I really don't feel like I had a month at all.  Not much of my "to do" list happened.   However, many things not on my list replaced those items, and since they were important to others, or involved sick kids, they took priority.



Blogging -
1.  Kiddos With Kindles - Write at least 25 Daily Kindle posts (that allows me to forgive myself if I miss a few).  ....  WONDERING .... is this blog worth the time and effort that I am putting into it?  -  I've really cut back on the effort I've put into this blog, but I get just enough traffic and comments that I've not been able to bring myself to just quit.
2.  Eagle Nest - Write at least 25 Other Posts on Homeschooling, Crafts, and such.  -  I don't think I came even close here.  I realized yesterday, that I've not posted a single "Peek at our Week" this month, nor have I posted any History posts.  I hope to get back to writing in January - as December will be worse than November! 
3.  O 'Scarlett - Write at least 8 book reviews  -  Never got to write a single post.  
4.  Wings - my personal scrapbooking blog - Write at least 8 posts and 1 Family News Update.  - I think this one got done - Yeah!
5.  Try to skim Google Reader daily.  - Did this!  It's actually pretty easy to do while rocking a sick child.


Project Household Settled  -  We are actually far LESS settled than we were 5 weeks ago, as many boxes of items have entered the house but stuff isn't leaving as fast.
1.  Story gets her room and bathroom finished organized.
2.  Ref moved into a new office space.
3.  Work some more on Sunshine's room - Declutter
4.  Work more on Scholar's room - Declutter

5.  Work on Craft supplies

6.  Repaint the Master bathroom (not all of it)

7.  Get kitchen under control.

8.  FIGHT roaches! - We did put down a lot of Bengal spray - but more areas to go!

Project Aunt V. - Settling in.  
1.  Remove boxes to storage as they are filled up.

2.  Don't stress out.

Food -  We ate ... something  ....  everyday.  Mostly mystery packages out of the freezers.  It all tasted pretty good - even the pumpkin stews!
1.  Keep using up the food in the freezers.

2.  Go through freezers again later this month and refill the ones next door.   

3.  Make meal plans to use up as much odds and ends of stored food as possible. 

School  -  School room has turned into a disaster area.  Most depressing and distressing.  As more and more pours in for me to "deal with" but the room isn't holding it.  It use to be a playroom, and some of the kids still treat it as such.

1.  Organize video area

2.  Find somebody to cut the chalk board in half - get half up in Story's room for her, and the other half up in the school room.

3.  Find someplace to put up the posters and charts in the room - or find them a new home.

4.  Finish label and sort so MIL can have her label machine back ASAP

Facebook and Email -  Not much going on worth checking - and no time.
Goal is to check no more than 5 times a day.  


Personal  -  We had a pretty good "walk after supper" routine.  But now it is dark well before supper.  Must get into a new habit!  However, with all the sorting, toting, and such, I've still managed to loose 2 lbs.   With sick kids - bedtime has become more of a wish than a reality.
1.  Be in bed before Midnight - WITH the lights off. 
2.  Have all of the kids in bed by 10pm - and asleep.
3.  More consistent devotional times.
4.  Loose 10 lbs. 
5.  No eating after 8pm.
6.  Walk a two miles at least 4 times each week.  

7.  Get a schedule in place for chores and routines for the household (minus the Ref).  And get it posted somewhere.

Christmas: - Currently, I haven't a CLUE where the addresses or the cards from last year are located.  But we have been barreling into the card frenzy as best we can.  Those who mail a card to us - will at least get a card back!

Scholar is having a delightful time decorating the cards.  And Story enjoys using her calligraphy set to address the envelopes.

1.  Isolate all of the cards and addresses from the last year or two into a findable location.

2.  Find the Christmas cards and put them with the address pile.

3.  Research ideas for Acts of Service Coupons.

4.  Research ideas for other gifts to give for Christmas.

Birthdays:

Find and enter birthday information into the Reminder program that I found to use.

Thanksgiving:
1.  Find somebody to master mind getting family together.
2.  Survey who wants to get together and who wants to do something else this year.
3.  Don't stress.


Bonus:
Remove the useless built in sets of drawers in my bedroom, and turn into a functional living/storage space for the crafts and household extra items that we need and use regularly.


Overall, Sunshine has been more "Stormy" than "Sunny" this month.  And a crying and clingy 3 year old is a force to be reckoned with.  Story has been frantic with her self imposed deadline for her new book - distracted is more like it.   Song has been fighting a major chest cold that was made worse by her asthma and ended up spending a week at Grandma's house - away from cats.  Scholar is right on schedule!  Mostly.   Now if only he was putting the computer games and videos back into the RIGHT cases instead of just sliding them into ANY case at hand - at least the CD's are protected.

In search of the Fisher Price FP3 player disc - without it, I cannot reset the device, so it just makes a funny noise.

I've also been able to get all of the kids wish lists up on Amazon and sorted by what they want the most.   There isn't any money for us to buy any of it really - but we have a handful of relatives that will get them a few items off of the list - what a HUGE blessing to them!   Some of it is rather frivoulous - Sunshine doesn't REALLY need a cupcake necklace ... but much of what they are asking for is school or food related.  Story doesn't really need a sword either ... but she put it on her list!

The highlights of the month were two Thanksgiving meals, and a big birthday party.