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Monday, December 31, 2012

January-February


January-February

  • read 2 books
  • clean out the extra bedroom closet
  • clean the cars
  • organize under the kitchen sink
  • stitch on my stocking at least six times
  • make dinner at least five times a week (as long as Whit is in town)


Thursday, December 27, 2012

A Different Take

That post could start a billion sentences... "A different take on the world" "A different take on life", "A different take on... me"

It will end like this: A different take on New Year's Resolutions.

It seems as though I only write blog posts after Christmas and during the summer.  I wonder why that is?  No, I don't. I know why, I'm not in school!! :)

Here is my different take on New Year's Resolutions.  Instead of giving myself one thing to work on per month, like I've tried the last two or three years, I'm going to give my self a list of things to do that have to be completed in a two-months' span.  These can be things like "clean the car" or "read a book".  But they don't have to be completed in a month's time-- rather just giving myself extra time.

So, here is my list.  I have the right to change this list as many times before January 1, 2013.

January-February

  • read 2 books
  • clean out the extra bedroom closet
  • clean the cars
  • organize under the kitchen sink
  • stitch on my stocking at least six times
  • make dinner at least five times a week (as long as Whit is in town)
March-April
  • organize the garage
  • organize the cups cupboard
  • plan and plant gardens
  • stitch on my stocking at least six times
  • go on a dinner date and a movie with Whit
  • plan summer vacation
May-June
  • organize half of the craft room
  • clean out the pots and pans cupboard and under the stove
  • plan all musicals for next year
  • paint rooms in the house
  • clean out the extra bedroom
  • stitch on my stocking at least six times
July-August
  • organize the garage
  • stitch on my stocking at least six times
  • bake some cookies
  • put together frozen dinners-- at least 12 crock pot meals
  • go to Bridges of Hope (july)
  • re-examine financial situations
September-October
  • get pictures taken for Christmas cards
  • go to a pumpkin patch
  • clean out the cars
  • make dinner five times a week (as long as Whit is in town)
  • clean out the bathroom
  • get rid of 7 bags of stuff for goodwill
November-December
  • Christmas Cards
  • go ice skating
  • make a thankful tree
  • make a Jesse tree
  • make a schedule of Bernard's visits
  • finish my stocking

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Christmas Traditions

This year, I thought I would try to make the festivities more about McCoy and less about me.  I tried to incorporate several things I either saw on Pinterest, got from my mom, or just thought up on my own.  But I overdid it, and the poor little fellow was just overwhelmed.

Countdown to Christmas included:

  • a chocolate advent calendar-- of which we still have about six boxes left to open, 
  • a Christian advent ornament calendar-- this was a set that I bought before McCoy was even born.  You read each little book about the story of Jesus and then you hang it up on the tree.  I had a little tiny tree that I put by the nativity set and McCoy sat through a total of about six books.  They were too hard to understand for a 3-yr old.  We have about 6 more books left to open.  Except for the Christmas Eve book-- it had baby Jesus on the front cover so of course McCoy wanted to open that book.
  • Bernard.  Well, that was a fun one.  It made getting McCoy out of bed great every morning so that he could go find Bernard.  That was fun.
  • Book Advent-- I saw this on Pinterest.  And although I had most of the books already, McCoy really sat through only about half of them.  I will be wrapping these up again next year, should I decide to keep it.
So, overwhelming McCoy with a count down to Christmas? I think so.  What's really sad is that I'm not really even sure he knew what Christmas was about (gifts or Jesus).  I kept saying "Oh you have to be good, or Santa won't bring you anything!"  But he didn't care.  He would reply to me, "I don't like Santa".  He didn't really understand the excitement of Christmas until it was actually here.  Next year will probably be better.

What advent should I keep and which should I do away with?  I also want to do a Jesse Tree like my friend Suzie did.  And I think I'll have to keep Bernard.  That was just too much fun.

I hope everyone had a great Christmas.