What Have YOU Always Wanted to Do?
What Is 101 in 1001?
I recently read about a project where you make a list of specific goals and give yourself a specific time to complete those goals. the idea, as well as the person's list that I read, was very inspiring. I decided to make a list of my own...
And I have to complete my list.
My 101 in 1,001 List
Things for My Heart:
1. Buy/rent and learn to play a Hammered Dulcimer2.
3.
6. Write a poem a week 6x
7. Finish my LifeStory
8. Knit a blanket or sweater
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12. Learn to sew. Haven't completed this, but I did buy a sewing machine and am on my way to trying to learn!
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16. Put one piece of fine art in each room
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20. Knit a pair of socks
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Done!
Things for My Peace of Mind:
24.25. Send Jude his mittens
Things for My Brain:
26.27.
28.
Things for My Environment:
29. Set up a recycling system in my home. This has been harder than I thought it would be. With 8 people in the house, several of whom don't really care about recycling, I became a recycling Nazi and no one liked me. I do my best now, but there's no "recycling center" here.30.
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32. Buy or build the kids a playset in the side yard
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I didn't make them, but I learned how to make them while working at the greenhouse and hope to do my own this Spring.
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36. Save for and buy new kitchen table and chairs.
37. Organize craft room.
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40. Create a barnyard in which the chickens will be safe.
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42. Paint Sweetheart's floor in gingham check
43. Stencil Houdin's room with him.
44. Sponge paint Monet's floor
45. Prune apple trees
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48. Make and hang flower boxes at cabin
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Things for My Community:
50.51.
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53. Begin tithing into a jar for people in need
54. Knit a scarf to give away. Began 01/12/2005.
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57. Teach an NFP class 1x
58. If itâs rewarding, teach more 3x
Things for My Soul:
59. Find a good Bible Study program for my family Still looking. I checked the local Christian bookstore and Borders. Any suggestions?60. Participate in a nightly home Bible Study or devotional three nights a week 6x
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64. Create a prayer corner somewhere in the house and teach the children to use it.
65. Spend time in the Word each morning. His promises are new every morning 120x. Began 01/06/2005
Things for My Family:
66. Read the book that Bard wants me to read I'm working on it! 3/25/0567.
68. Teach Sweetheart how to read Began 01/02/2005. Doing well so far!
69. Read all of the Little House on the Prairie books to the kids
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73. Hug each child first thing every morning and last thing every night through the duration of the 1,001 days Began 01/06/2005
74. Write in each child's journal at least three times a week through the duration of the 1,001 days Began 01/06/2005
75. Encourage my husband to do devotions every night through the duration of the 1,001 days. Began 01/06/2005
76. Create a fire escape plan and practice it monthly.
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78. Encourage Bohemian to read What Every Fourth Grader Should Know to Monet each night until the book is done. Began 01/06/2005
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80. Go camping at three state parks I've never visited each year.
81. Take Bard to New York to see a Broadway play. Began investigating this 01-22-05.
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84. Tell Houdin that I love him three times a day for the duration of the 1,001 days
85. Take each kid on a date at least once every two weeks for the duration of the 1,001 days. Began 01/06/2005
86. Take the kids fishing at least once.
Things for My Wallet:
87. Become debt-free, with the exception of my house payment, using the snowball method Still working on this one88. Work through Steps to Financial Freedom with Bohemian
89. Save three month's salary
90. Begin a savings plan for a new vehicle
91.
Things for Relationships:
92. Write a letter every week 16x. Began 01/14/2005. 1 letter. Didn't do this, per se, but really worked on making sure I was keeping up with relationships. Got a facebook. :-)93. Call one person each month with whom I haven't spoken in a while 30x.
94. Send birthday and anniversary cards to family members and close friends 30x.
95. Write a yearly letter (3X) Began 01-08-2005
Things for My Body:
96. Limit my soft drink intake to one a week. Replace fluids with water.12x Began 01/06/2005. This one is hard. I can't believe how hard it is!97.
98. Take my vitamins every day for the duration of the 1,001 days. Began 01/06/2005 Didn't do it every day, but discovered that I *need* my B12
99.
100. Go golfing
101. Walk to the mailbox and back every day 30X.
- #28: Books I'm Reading...
- #18 Complete! Stop being sarcastic...
- #24 Complete! Develop Boys' Cameras!
- Magic at the Senior Center
- Well, I guess I can cross THAT off my list...
- #26 Complete! Try Geocaching!
- Geocaching!
- Days Two and Three
- The Happy Housewife Did It!
- Day one is almost over...
Saturday, January 22, 2005
My Progress So Far...
It's really cool to walk into my room and see that my bed is made. Every day. A neato little side benefit is that I have been asking one of my beloved family members to help me make the bed each day, so I get that extra time with my husband, my daughter Bard, or my son Houdin. It's pretty nifty.
I've been playing classical music during different times during the day, not just at meal prep, though that's usually when I start it. Sweetheart just LOVES it and starts twirling around and skipping and leaping. Also nifty.
I've been trying very hard to remember to give hugs to each of my kids every morning and every night. May I admit here that I didn't realize before how many negative words come out of my mouth in the morning? Bard insists on her morning and evening hugs now. She's almost 15.
New Recipes I've Made: A lemony chicken thing, a barbecued roast beef thing (actually, Bard made it to help her with her 101 things, one of which is to learn to cook), and, tonight, a soupy thing. All good so far, though I don't think I'll make the lemony chicken thing again.
Been asking a lot of people to teach me to sew. People are very busy!
Not sure I can finish a book every two weeks. I'm still reading Eve's Daughters and Haircut. :-/
I got most of the way through the book of Job and haven't read in the morning for about four days. I will start that again tomorrow.
I bought the boys new journals and have been writing in them, but they have not. Hey, kids. Write in your journals.
Still taking my vitamins, still drinking water, bought nifty new water bottles at Wal*Mart and keep them in the fridge, still abstaining from fast food (watched Super Size Me--helps a lot), still jump-roping.
We've gone geocaching twice. Will probably go again tomorrow. Sundays seem to be geocaching days.
I've been playing classical music during different times during the day, not just at meal prep, though that's usually when I start it. Sweetheart just LOVES it and starts twirling around and skipping and leaping. Also nifty.
I've been trying very hard to remember to give hugs to each of my kids every morning and every night. May I admit here that I didn't realize before how many negative words come out of my mouth in the morning? Bard insists on her morning and evening hugs now. She's almost 15.
New Recipes I've Made: A lemony chicken thing, a barbecued roast beef thing (actually, Bard made it to help her with her 101 things, one of which is to learn to cook), and, tonight, a soupy thing. All good so far, though I don't think I'll make the lemony chicken thing again.
Been asking a lot of people to teach me to sew. People are very busy!
Not sure I can finish a book every two weeks. I'm still reading Eve's Daughters and Haircut. :-/
I got most of the way through the book of Job and haven't read in the morning for about four days. I will start that again tomorrow.
I bought the boys new journals and have been writing in them, but they have not. Hey, kids. Write in your journals.
Still taking my vitamins, still drinking water, bought nifty new water bottles at Wal*Mart and keep them in the fridge, still abstaining from fast food (watched Super Size Me--helps a lot), still jump-roping.
We've gone geocaching twice. Will probably go again tomorrow. Sundays seem to be geocaching days.
posted by Thicket Dweller | 7:44 PM
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