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Daily Goals ~ Thursday, December 19th, 2013

  

Christmas Tree 2013

Took yesterday off from blogging and watch Christmas movies most of the day with hubby, then we decorated the tree, and went around the neighborhood and looked at Christmas lights. It was a wonderful day! Now I have to go back to work.

Today's Goals

1. 1. Work ~ I work from 8am-6pm. I'm excited because today we are going to work on our Christmas Gifts.
2.  Cooking ~ We are going to cut our sugar dough and make cookies today! MMMmmm
3. Kids Kroner ~ We made our Christmas Gift Bags on Tuesday. They are so cute. Today we are going to make the Christmas ball that goes into it. I cant wait!
4. Clean up ~ Tonight before I go to bed, I want to get all the wash folded that is upstairs. I have so much wash to fold. (everything clean)
5. Gardening ~ Work on my Garden box 3 plans. I haven't gotten to they yet.

What are you doing today?

Weekly Goals - December 17th -24th, 2013

This week I have a lot of Christmas preparation to do. I love this time of year, but just haven't really been into it. I don't really know why, but I have together out of this mood. Hope you love to hear about our Christmas fun!

Weekly Goals

1.  Make cookies- I love Christmas cookies! I love to eat them and give them out as little gift to the Aunts that I really can't afford gifts for. It just a little treat to say I was thinking of you.
2. Wrap gifts- I finished buying my Christmas gifts a month ago, but haven't wrapped them. 
3. Christmas Tree- I have a tree and cleaned out an area to put it. I haven't put it up though. Hoping to get that done this week.
4. Christmas crafts- this is such a fun week for crafts. I have so many planned for the little ones! 
5. Read- I'm going to read '21 Days to a  Simple Christmas' by Crystal Paine and join 21 Days to a Simple Christmas
6. Clean the house- I have most of the house picked up, but I want it to look awesome in pictures.
7. Workout - I want to hit the gym or do 1/2 hour video work at least 3 times this week. 
8. Gardening - work on 25 Weeks After Last Frost Gardening Goals
9. Gardening - plan what I want to do in my Garden Box 3. 
10. Take a day off and just enjoy the season. I will be rushing around like. Crazy, I don't want to miss anything.

This week is full of fun holiday join! Because of that there is so much to do. I want to enjoy it but not over do it. Hope you have an awesome week planned! Let me know about it!

Daily Goals - Tuesday, December 17, 2013

It's snowing again! I can't believe how much snow we are getting so far this year. I love looking at the snow, but don't like being in it or driving in it. I had to this morning because for work.it suck because I had to get up an hour earlier to get on the road an hour earlier. I like to give myself a lot of time.

Today's Goals

1. Work - I work today from 7:30-6pm.  It's going to be a long day because I am sleepy, and got here at 7am. I have some fun projects for the kids to do and I hoping to make cookies. 
2. Get a fire going- I let the house with a little heater on, I hate doing that but I didn't get to start a fire and the house was already at 66'. I was worried about the pets.
3. Christmas stuff- I want to start to go though it tonight. I didn't get to last night.
4. Set my weekly goals- I haven't written them down a lot lately. I need to work on that. 

Yesterday's Goals

1. Work ~ I work 9-2 today. This works great, because the little one has preschool, therefore the baby and I have time to shop to get there Christmas gifts for the parents, Don't know what I'm doing yet, but it should be fun. - it was a nice day! We even got a Christmas project in.
2. Clean up ~ My little one won't clean her room, so hubby and I cleaned it. Great idea right? Take the stuff she has on the floor and out of place and make her earn it back. Yeah one question with that, where do I put her stuff? - we decide to visit my mom. I was therefore awhile.
3. Christmas~ Tonight  want to get the decorations up. We haven't done much around the house because we didn't have the little one to help. - didn't get to. 
4. Cooking ~ Today starts the 7 days of cookies! Everyday from now until next Monday I want to make a different type of cookies. I love making Cookies because this gives us something little to give. This year we are very tight on money little gift to give to people is a huge help. - didn't get to
5. Workout ~ I want to hit the gym today. This way I get there!- didn't get to

• I didn't get most of my goals done yesterday, because my little one and I went to visit my mom who got out of the hospital on Sunday. So most of my after work plans were put off. 

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Gardening Tips - Use a Notebook to Plan Garden

My gardening Journal

 

       

Another reason is to know when things are planted. Like in March, I need to plant 86 pea plants indoors. Then in April, I need to plant 86 more outside. Having it written down, helps me keep track of what I need to plant and when.

        Having a notebook also will let me know, when to harvest my plants. Like my peppers, if I start them on March 14th, I should be able to harvest them around May 20th to June 9th. This is great to information to know. I can start to plan my menu around the food that is coming out of the garden.

         I use a binder, so I have an area to write what I need to buy. I normal call this my dream list. I have a huge one. It is great though, because it shows me what I want to work for. Having a list will help you know what you want to buy, therefore you don't go in a store and come out with 10 different seeds that aren't on your list and you don't have anywhere to plant them. ( I have done this several times.)

      The last reason, I'm using a binder is that it will help me save my seeds. This year’s goal is to start to save seeds. There will be a spot in the binder for all the information on the seeds, I plant. That will tells what they are and their detail of each seed. This spot will grow with information on how the plant grows for me, when to start it. This will be important because I grow Survival Essential ~ Squash, Dark Green Zucchini for 10 years by harvesting my heirloom seeds and replanting them. I will most likely forget where I got it from. Causing me to have to replace the seeds, because they spoiled on year, I can look it up. I won't be without the Zucchini plant I love.

There are many ways to keep Journals, I use paper and pen, then put it on my Gardening App. I also use this blog as my journal. This way I have many forms of a journal to help me grow my garden every year!

How do you keep track of your garden?

Cooking ~ Meal Plan for 12/16/2013 - 12/22/2013

 

DEC 16 - MONDAY
breakfast	Oatmeal
breakfast	Banana
lunch	Mini Chicken Pot Pie
lunch	Grapes
dinner	Sausage
dinner	Mash Potatoes
dinner	Mix Veggies
DEC 17 - TUESDAY
breakfast	Pancakes
breakfast	Oranges
breakfast	Bagel With Cream Cheese
lunch	Apple
lunch	Peanut Butter And Jelly
lunch	Carrots
dinner	Chicken Enchiladas
dinner	Broccoli
dinner	White/brown Rice
DEC 18 - WEDNESDAY
breakfast	Waffle
breakfast	Apple
lunch	Grilled Cheese
lunch	Tomato Soup
lunch	Grapes
dinner	Hamburger Helper
DEC 19 - THURSDAY
breakfast	Scramble Eggs
breakfast	Apple
breakfast	Toast
lunch	Chicken Nuggets
lunch	Red Pepper
lunch	Grapes
dinner	Beef Stew
DEC 20 - FRIDAY
breakfast	Cereal
lunch	Leftover
dinner	Leftovers
DEC 21 - SATURDAY
breakfast	Cereal
lunch	Raviolis
lunch	Oranges
lunch	Carrots
dinner	Roast Over Mash Potatoes
DEC 22 - SUNDAY
breakfast	Cereal
lunch	Leftover
dinner	Leftovers

Having a menu helps my family and I know what's for dinner and not eat out as much. Yes there are day's we change the menu, but having what we need to cook in the house makes it easier. What are you doing for dinner this week?