Daily Goals - December 18, 2020

     Did you know today was Friday? I don’t know what happened to this week. I feel like this week has flown. It has been a rough week for me mentally. Season depression is really, its hard to get outside right now, and pandemic depression is really. These two things are scary. Plus, I never really work tough the custody depression and not being able to get pregnant stuff. It is time that I start to work though this all of this. That way I can move forward with nothing in my past. I need to let it all go, but that is easier to day. It is time to work on my mental state. Wow that is a lot to say. But this is my journal, my place to be true and honest about me. I’m not perfect, and I need to be okay with that. Therefore you get to see that

Today’s Goals

1.      Work – I work from 6am-5:30pm. We are still learning winter. I have some fun ideas for today.

2.      Cleaning – Clean the craft room.

3.      Decorate – I still have to do this.

4.      Plant seeds – I want to plant seeds in the aqua tanks.

I don’t have so many goals, because I want to get though them. how are you handing the stress and panic of this year?

Gardening Time - 16-15 Weeks before average frost date

 

I am still in shocked that we are starting 2021 garden. I am so excited to get it started! I can’t wait to see what next years garden bring.

16-15 Weeks before average frost date

v  Clean up around the green house. Work on organizing it. Yes, I know you keep seeing this but this always needs to be done.

v  Plant herbs for indoors.

v  Come up a plan for plan for compost bin. I don’t have a compost bin outside anywhere. I know I need one. Best garden has amazing come compost in it. We are a no spray or add to gardens. I will have to add more mushroom compost this year, but I am hoping that the deep beds in chicken coop will break down to add this winter. I have a friend that has goats, and horse. This year I am hoping to get one amazing compost for 2022. I will be doing that 2 times a year. I will post more about this.

v  Garden Tools- Time to see what I have and what needs to be fixed.

v  Plant Seeds if I didn’t get to it. We need to make seed trays.

18-17 Weeks before average frost date

v  Clean up around the green house. Work on organizing it.

v  Place Seed orders- The magazines will be coming in soon, but I know there are something I want no matter what. I want to get them ordered. – I order a few seeds from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, and Potatoes & Asparagus From Urban Farmer. I know more seed wants will be coming because I have a seed addiction, but I should have what I need for this year.

v  Paint the roof of the Green house. It has been painted in a few years. I want it to last a long time. Painting it will help. – We didn’t get to this. We are having 3-12 inches of snow, therefore we will not be able to get to this. Next year we will have to do it.

v  Hook up the heat to the green house.

v  Sow Herbs – Start Thyme and Parsley seeds.

v  Sow Vegetables – Start Onion and leeks.

v  Start to plan next year’s gardens. What do I want to grow? – I have started to figure out what I want in the garden. I am hoping that we can afford to double the garden size next year. We did plant a lot of berry plants. I pray they come up. I have decided that we will continue to use mulch garden idea. This works best for me. I will work on my posting mine soon.

What are you doing to get your garden started for next year? Do you have plans on what type of garden you want? Are you ordering your seeds? Let me know.

Daily Goals - December 16, 20202

 

Good morning, Happy Wednesday! 6:15am and 2 littles are already laying on the couch. This is going to be a long day. They are calling for 12-18 inches of snow. Parents went in early to hopeful be able to leave early. Hopeful it works that way. I am honestly expecting at least one child to be left late. But we could use a good snow day.

Today’s Goals

1.      Work – I work from 6:15-? I guess we will see. We are still learning about winter.

2.      Cleaning – work on cleaning the bedroom. I want to pick it up and finish the wash.

3.      Decorate – I still have to do this.

4.      Plant seeds – I want to plant seeds in the aqua tanks.

5.      Snow removal – We will be shoveling snow today.

Yesterday’s Goals

1.      Work – I work from 6:30am-5:30pm today. I have 2 little ones today and they are my young ones. We are learning about winter.  I think I might make some fake snow this afternoon and let them play with it. We had a great day! I love my little one time.

2.      Cleaning – Wash, I haven’t been keeping up on it. So there is a good amount that needs to be done. Still have to work on this goal, got some done yesterday but not all of it.  I got a load done. I just have been so slow on it.

3.      Decorate – I haven’t been in the Christmas mood. I don’t know why but I just haven’t feeling it. But it is time to decorate and get ready for it. My little ones get excited and then get me in the mood. During naptime, I will use Cass to hang out with the littles and I will go decorate a little. Nope

4.       Homestead – I have 2 hay barrels of hay left. I will throw them in the chicken coop. It will help them stay warm and have seeds to eat and starch at. They got the last of the hay and were excited for it. I love watching them scratch and be goofy in it. I can’t wait to get them new pull cages for the spring.

5.      Cleaning – Our basement is such a mess. We started last winter to empty it out, and start to reorganize. We got a lot cleaned out and started to move the stuff, but we never got to finish. Spring came, and we had many other things we want to do. Cleaning the basement is a winter thing. We are downstairs, running the fire so it gives us time. Right now, there is so much around the fire place. We need to clean it out, so we can use this winter. Which will help with our heating bill. I didn’t get there. I got in a stupid argument. Therefore put me in the mood to do nothing. Plus I wanted to crash early.

With hubby working from home again, it gives me a change to do more stuff. He watches the littles for ½ hour yesterday so I could work in the greenhouse and the kids aren’t left alone. (I never leave daycare kids alone.) I lay all the little ones down make sure they are sleep and then he brings his computer to the Livingroom and hands out with them. This is soooo helpful because I can’t always get stuff done if I can’t leave the site of them. Yesterday it gave me time to go in the green house and start to clean it, until I had and allergy attack. But I got one shelve clean and another one started. Mice are crazy and in there so that is my issue. Hopeful being in there daily will help keep them out. What do you have planned for today?

         Last week was a busy week, we knew a snow storm is coming. We had a lot to get ready. We also had a lot of stuff to get ready for up coming events. College Girl was home with us. That was nice. We did have to have a talk about hiding her boyfriend being over. Yes, we are crazy parents that don’t believe it is our right to control her world after being 18 and going to college to control her every move. You want you boyfriend to spend the night that is your choice. But we do want to be told about it. (our belief comes from the fact that we both were living on our own at 18, and running our own life. We are here to guide her in the right direction, but not to force her) She also never gave us reason to not trust her. She though wasn’t telling us, and I almost walked in on them (not full dressed, I has in a tank top, and sweets) and then the next time he parked away form the house and made all my parents walk far to get to the house. I think she gets it now. We also don’t control her or judge her because we want her to be open with us. If you think your parents will be disappointed you won’t tell them we don’t want that either.

We also got several wood stove covers orders this week. We have been working hard on getting those orders filled. I love spend the time with hubby. It gives us something fun to work on together. It also lets me do something he loves with him. It is so important to take time and do things you partner loves to do.

I worked all week, We had so much fun! I love spending time with my littles. We learned about the letter Hh and Hanukkah. The kids had so much fun!

I also did good sticking to THM. The food was good. There were 2 recipes that didn’t turn out right, but every cookbook has them. I was on plan about 90% of the time.

This week is another busy week. But what week for us isn’t busy. I hate sitting around and there is so much to do.  I am hoping for a snow day though and if we get it I will take it and watch Hallmark movies and chill. Maybe have a snow fight with hubby.

Weekly Goals

1.   Plan kids Christmas party – I love holidays with my little ones. They get so excited. I can’t wait to plan out the party fun we are going to have.

2.   Move stuff around our wood stove in the basement. We bought fire wood this year. I want to move the stuff and use the stove. It will reduce our heating cost. With hubby working every other at home, it will make it easier to run though out the day. With this crazy world, I want to save as much money as we can.

3.   Finish up our wood stove covers, and get the next order started. This I want done but Saturday so people can pick up on Sunday.

4.   Decorate – we are decorated for Christmas. I need to get going on this.

5.   Work on gardening Goals! I want an amazing garden next year. Which means working hard to get it there.

        I know not everything might not get done. That is okay. Having goals gives me stuff to do and makes me feel like I finished stuff. It helps with my anxiety and feeling of not being good enough. It shows me what I’m doing to make the house a happier and better home. What are your goals for the week? How did your week go last wee

Daily Goals - December 15, 2020

Good morning, Happy Tuesday! The morning started off nice and slow. I got 15 mins of my workout in. Not all of it but some is better then none. I showered and then took my yogurt out of the instant
pot!!! I’m so excited for homemade organic yogurt! I had both yogurt and beef broth cooking yesterday. I love having healthy homemade food for my home and family. The broth will be ready in about 3 hours, but I might wait until afternoon naptime because it will get messy. The rest of yesterday didn’t go as plan. Day was going great, but a little sleepy. After dinner we went and played Mario Kart like always. I few games just to let the stress of the day go and to laugh and have fun. We got off and I laid back and passed out. At 7:30!!!! I can’t believe I fell asleep that early. I am living more as my body will let me know what I need and last night I need sleep. Hubby covered me up and just let me sleep. I fell great this morning. That being said nothing I want to do yesterday really got done. Oh well, that is life.

Love my instant pots (yogurt and beef broth)

Today’s Goals

1.      Work – I work from 6:30am-5:30pm today. I have 2 little ones today and they are my young ones. We are learning about winter.  I think I might make some fake snow this afternoon and let them play with it.

2.      Cleaning – Wash, I haven’t been keeping up on it. So there is a good amount that needs to be done. Still have to work on this goal, got some done yesterday but not all of it.

3.      Decorate – I haven’t been in the Christmas mood. I don’t know why but I just haven’t feeling it. But it is time to decorate and get ready for it. My little ones get excited and then get me in the mood. During naptime, I will use Cass to hang out with the littles and I will go decorate a little.

4.       Homestead – I have 2 hay barrels of hay left. I will throw them in the chicken coop. It will help them stay warm and have seeds to eat and starch at.

5.      Cleaning – Our basement is such a mess. We started last winter to empty it out, and start to reorganize. We got a lot cleaned out and started to move the stuff, but we never got to finish. Spring came, and we had many other things we want to do. Cleaning the basement is a winter thing. We are downstairs, running the fire so it gives us time. Right now, there is so much around the fire place. We need to clean it out, so we can use this winter. Which will help with our heating bill.

Yesterday’s Goals

1.                   Work – I work from 6:30am-6pm today. I have 4 little ones today. We are learning about winter. This is perfect because we are having snow this week. We had a great day. A lot of playing and talking about hot coco.
2.      .   Cleaning – Wash, I haven’t been keeping up on it. So there is a good amount that needs to be done. I got some done, but not all of it.
3.           Decorate – I haven’t been in the Christmas mood. I don’t know why but I just haven’t feeling it. But it is time to decorate and get ready for it. My little ones get excited and then get me in the mood. During naptime, I will use Cass to hang out with the littles and I will go decorate a little. I didn’t get too.
4.          Homestead – I have 2 hay barrels of hay left. I will throw them in the chicken coop. It will help them stay warm and have seeds to eat and starch at. I didn’t get to it.
5.        Cleaning – Our basement is such a mess. We started last winter to empty it out, and start to reorganize. We got a lot cleaned out and started to move the stuff, but we never got to finish. Spring came, and we had many other things we want to do. Cleaning the basement is a winter thing. We are downstairs, running the fire so it gives us time. Right now, there is so much around the fire place. We need to clean it out, so we can use this winter. Which will help with our heating bill. I didn’t get to it.

Falling asleep early didn’t not work well for me. Today is a new day, new chance, and I have to listen to what my body needs. What are you doing today? Have you planned a day and then crashed? Well, no guilt here. I’m not perfect, life happens and we move on.

 

Daily Goals - December 14, 2020

 

Good morning, Happy Monday. Today is a busy day, and not much energy. We had a busy weekend, and not my recover time. They are calling for 12-15 inch snow on Thursday. Which mean I will most likely be off. I think I might just take that day as movie day. For now though we have projects to get done. We also need to get ready for the snow.

Happy Chickens, and Bunny for there new roof

Today’s Goals

1.      Work – I work from 6:30am-6pm today. I have 4 little ones today. We are learning about winter. This is perfect because we are having snow this week.

2.      Cleaning – Wash, I haven’t been keeping up on it. So there is a good amount that needs to be done.

3.      Decorate – I haven’t been in the Christmas mood. I don’t know why but I just haven’t feeling it. But it is time to decorate and get ready for it. My little ones get excited and then get me in the mood. During naptime, I will use Cass to hang out with the littles and I will go decorate a little.

4.       Homestead – I have 2 hay barrels of hay left. I will throw them in the chicken coop. It will help them stay warm and have seeds to eat and starch at.

5.      Cleaning – Our basement is such a mess. We started last winter to empty it out, and start to reorganize. We got a lot cleaned out and started to move the stuff, but we never got to finish. Spring came, and we had many other things we want to do. Cleaning the basement is a winter thing. We are downstairs, running the fire so it gives us time. Right now, there is so much around the fire place. We need to clean it out, so we can use this winter. Which will help with our heating bill.

Our oven covers!

Yesterday’s

1.      Work on shirt order- I need hubby’s help with this. I will have it all design and ready. Just hoping the printer works with us. – I didn’t get to this. The day was busy and I ran out of time.

2.      Gardening time – Work in the green house a little. I need to find time to work in there. It is hard because it is dark before and after dark. Weekend we are trying to do so much. I walked in, and then out.

3.      Kids Knorner -Business paperwork. Receipt day. I got this done 1^st thing. It was nice to have it done.

4.      Side Hussle – I want to make $60 today. Either insta carting or door dash. But I like to be able to cover the grocery’s this week.  I got one order done. The orders that were big, hubby and I was in the middle of things. I did get one in while I was shopping for myself.

5.      Side Hussle – work on wood stove covers. We have 3 wood stove covers going right now. All in different stages. I would like to work on them and get them done. I am so happy that we got most of these started an moved on. We got a lot more done than we thought we would. We also got another order! Tonight I will work on it again. Right now, we are one stain, or apply poly and the let dry. This is the hard part.

Yesterday, we worked on getting the rabbit and chicken coop roof done. I’m so excited. It looks to much better it will keep them dry though out the storms that will come in though out winter and on. We also cut a few trees branches off the maple tree near the coop, the linden tree, and my pear tree. (Hubby was so excited. Because the branch we cut off the pear tree was always hitting him, when he mowed the lawn) Now I have happy chickens, and rabbit and hubby.

Daily Goals - Sunday, December 13, 2020

 

What a week. So much going on. My anxiety is high again, and I know I need to get it in check because hubby is now feeling it. Our governor has shut down gyms, entertainment place and indoor dining today. This makes my heart so sad for all these people. I stress me because my unemployment help is gone and I can’t get anymore help. That is stressful. I have started to instacart and door dash. To make grocery money so that we can still eat healthy. I am focusing on what I can control and going from there. That is all I can do. We also got 2 glass stove orders in. I am working on them too. I love spending time with hubby and working on projects with him. He is a great teacher and so knowledgeable. I’m so lucky to have him in our live. My college student was here this week. It honestly is hard getting use to her here. Not that she is an issue, but she not uses to the new routines we started. She is though loving Mario cart after dinner. This is so much fun.

Today’s Goals

1.       Work on shirt order- I need hubby’s help with this. I will have it all design and ready. Just hoping the printer works with us.

2.       Gardening time – Work in the green house a little. I need to find time to work in there. It is hard because it is dark before and after dark. Weekend we are trying to do so much.

3.       Kids Knorner -Business paperwork. Receipt day

4.       Side Hussle – I want to make $60 today. Either insta carting or door dash. But I like to be able to cover the grocery’s this week.

5.       Side Hussle – work on wood stove covers. We have 3 wood stove covers going right now. All in different stages. I would like to work on them and get them done.

Today is a busy day. We have a lot going on. But it is important stuff. Trying to make money to have the wood business going so hubby can do that. Work from home. That would be nice. What are you doing today?