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12 Goals for the New Year – Week 3 of 52

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By Mavis Butterfield on January 23, 2014 · 16 Comments

I came up with 12 goals I’d like to accomplish this year with the hopes of being able to cross one off my list per month to make them more manageable. I thought a great way to hold myself accountable to the things I want to accomplish this year would be to do a weekly update.

After all, we all need a little help staying motivated sometimes. Here’s how I am doing so far:

1. Clean, de-clutter and organize my entire home in 30 days or less. – I know what you’re thinking. Mavis, is that a bunch of crappity crap in your dining room?

Why yes, yes it is. I told you I was on a mission to de-clutter. 🙂 30 days or less? Heck ya I think I can do it.

2. Fit into the same jeans I wore 8 years ago when we moved into our house. Yesterday I clocked 6.31 miles on my fancy shmancy pedometer. And I didn’t even do anything exciting like go on a real walk. Nope, just walking around the house, digging in the garden and doing normal stuff.

3. Travel. The Girl and I cashed in nearly all of our frequent flyer miles for this years trip. Wahoooo! Anyone care to guess where we are headed?

4. Send my daughter to college without having a nervous breakdown thus spending a week in bed sobbing.

5. Get 3 new teeth. Well, first I need to get my chipped tooth fixed. 😉

6. Pay off my car. Here’s a video of us when we bought it last summer. I made a double payment this month!

7. Finish this primitive folk art rug I started 4 years ago. So far 18 stars have been completed. I was planning on filling in the background color {black} after each star but as I was going through my wool strips I noticed I was all out so I had to order more. Which is a dangerous thing if you ask me. {More about that later}.

8. Family Day. Do one thing together as a family. This week we went out to dinner. A rare occasion for us that’s for sure. I don’t know about you but I think you get the biggest bang for your buck at mexican restaurants. Loading up on free chips and salsa before your entree comes it awesome.

9. Secret Plan #1 – Working on it. 🙂

10. Secret Plan #2

11. Secret Plan #3

12. Convince the HH we should buy a Salt Box Style House in Colonial Williamsburg. No new letters from the colony this week. 🙁

13. Spend at least 1 hour a day working in my garden. – So far so good. Yesterday Lucy the Puggle dog and I pulled up some parsnips and carrots from the garden. If there is one thing that dog loves, is digging up vegetables.

So there you have it, my goals for the new year.

How about YOU? How are your 2014 goals coming along?

~Mavis

P.S. YES, I know I wrote down 13 goals. I’m fairly certain I won’t be able to attain one of them. {gee, I wonder which one?} But I wanted to add it in there anyway because I believe in miracles.

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12 Goals for the New Year – Week 2 of 52

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By Mavis Butterfield on January 15, 2014 · 5 Comments

I came up with 12 goals I’d like to accomplish next year with the hopes of being able to cross one off my list per month to make them more manageable. I thought a great way to hold myself accountable to the things I want to accomplish this year would be to do a weekly update.

After all, we all need a little help staying motivated sometimes. Here’s how I am doing so far:

1. Clean, de-clutter and organize my entire home in 30 days or less. – Isn’t it amazing all the cool stuff you find when you go through and clean your entire house? I purchased this Keep Calm and Carry on bag last year at Heathrow airport and had totally forgotten about it until I was cleaning out the bedroom the yesterday.

It’s made of burlap and would be the perfect sort of bag to bring to the beach. If I was a beach person that is. I’m not sure what I’m going to use it for yet but I’m sure glad I found it.

2. Fit into the same jeans I wore 8 years ago when we moved into our house. – Thanks to the help of my new handy dandy pedometer and knowing that I need to get 10,000 steps in each day I’m feeling confident I’ll be able to fit into those jeans by the end of summer.

3. Travel. Tickets have been purchased!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 I’m keeping the plans a secret for now though until we get all the details worked out. Stay tuned!

4. Send my daughter to college without having a nervous breakdown thus spending a week in bed sobbing.

5. Get 3 new teeth. 😉

6. Pay off my car. Here’s a video of us when we bought it last summer.

7. Finish the primitive folk art rug I started 4 years ago. – Lucy puggle and I spent about an hour going through all my wool strips and sorting them into bags. I finished another star on my rug and am really starting to enjoy rug hooking again and am already thinking about what I want to make after I finish my coffee table rug. Do you have any suggestions?

8. Family Day. Do one thing together as a family every Sunday. – This past Sunday we went to the LeMay Car Museum in Tacoma, Washington. We took a bunch of pictures so be on the lookout for those tomorrow. If you are a local, it’s worth the addmission price that’s for sure.

9. Secret Plan #1

10. Secret Plan #2

11. Secret Plan #3

12. Convince the HH we should buy a Salt Box Style House in Colonial Williamsburg.

Mavis: It’s a sign. See, we are suppose to move there.

HH: Seriously? The Colonial Williamsburg Society wants a donation. Look, it’s bulk mail. It is not a sign.

Mavis: Thanks Debbie Downer.

13. Spend at least 1 hour a day working in my garden. The weather in Western Washington has been pretty nice lately and Lucy the Puggle Dog and I have been working outside every chance we get. Now if I could just teach her how to pull up weeds my garden chores would get done much faster. 🙂

So there you have it, an update on my 12 goals for the new year.

How about YOU? How are your 2014 goals coming along?

~Mavis

P.S. YES, I know I wrote down 13 goals. I’m fairly certain I won’t be able to attain one of them {gee, I wonder which one?}. But I wanted to add it in there anyway because I believe in miracles.

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12 Goals for the New Year – Week 1 of 52

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By Mavis Butterfield on January 8, 2014 · 5 Comments

After all, we all need a little help staying motivated sometimes. Here’s how I am doing so far:

1. Clean, de-clutter and organize my entire home in 30 days or less. – Sweet mother of all things good in this world! I have actually spent at least an hour each day this past week clearing out and organizing our crap. It.Feels.Awesome.

2. Fit into the same jeans I wore 8 years ago when we moved into our house. – To be completely honest, I am one lazy woman. I don’t like to exercise. At least not in the traditional sense. So how am I going to fit into those jeans? Easy, I bought a pedometer. Word on the street if you walk at least 10,000 steps a day you’ll drop the weight. I just started using my pedometer last Sunday and so far so good. {I’ll write more about this later}

3. Travel. – The Girl and I are hatching a plan to blow this Popsicle stand.

4. Send my daughter to college without having a nervous breakdown thus spending a week in bed sobbing.

5. Get 3 new teeth. 😉

6. Pay off my car.

7. Finish this primitive folk art rug I started 4 years ago. – This past week I finished 2 stars and started working on the border a wee bit.

8. Family Day. Do one thing together as a family every Sunday. Last Sunday we went to the movies and saw Saving Mr. Banks. Oh my word was it AWESOME. If you love Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson, Walt Disney or Mary Poppins, you will LOVE,LOVE,LOVE this movie!

9. Secret Plan #1

10. Secret Plan #2

11. Secret Plan #3

12. Convince the HH we should buy a Salt Box Style House in Colonial Williamsburg.

13. Spend at least 1 hour a day working in my garden. – I spent 6 of the last 7 days in the garden which is not too shabby considering the ground is frozen. 🙂

So there you have it. How about YOU? How are your 2014 goals coming along?

~Mavis

P.S. YES, I know I wrote down 13 goals. I’m fairly certain I won’t be able to attain one of them. {gee, I wonder which one?} But I wanted to add it in there anyway because I believe in miracles.

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12 Goals for the New Year

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By Mavis Butterfield on December 31, 2013 · 31 Comments

Tomorrow will be the start of another year and if you’re like me you probably have a list of things you’d like to accomplish in 2014. I came up with 12 goals I’d like to accomplish next year with the hopes of being able to cross one off my list per month to make them more manageable.

Here they are in no particular order:

1. Clean, de-clutter and organize my entire home in 30 days or less. I did this last year and let me tell you Bob, by the end of the month my house was gutted and cleaned like a fresh fish. It.Was.Awesome.

2. Fit into the same jeans I wore 8 years ago when we moved into our house.

3. Travel.

4. Send my daughter off to college without having a nervous breakdown thus spending a week in bed sobbing because my Friday night movie buddy, travel partner, sometimes photographer and the best pal a mother could ever ask for has moved away and left me forever.

5. Get 3 new teeth. 😉

6. Pay off my car. Here’s a video of when I bought it last summer.

7. Finish this primitive folk art rug I started 4 years ago. After all, I have all the supplies so it would be a shame to give up on what I started so many years ago. Here’s what it looks like right now:

I figure if I can get one square {8 point star and surrounding area} finished per week, I should be able to finish the rug by December 31st, 2014. I’m not sure if I’ll want to burn the rug or keep it at the point, but at least it will be done. 😉

8. Family Day. Do one thing together as a family every Sunday until The Girl Who Thinks She’s a Bird leaves for college.

9. Secret Project #1

10. Secret Project #2

11. Secret Project #3

12. Convince the HH we should buy a Salt Box Style House in Colonial Williamsburg. I could dress up everyday in a colonial dress and give tours of our vegetable garden and home and he could hang out in the cellar/man cave with all the other men from the community watching tv and playing with their electronic gadgets.

13. Spend at least 1 hour a day working in my garden.

So there you have it. 12 goals for the new year.

How about YOU? What do you want to get accomplished in 2014?

~Mavis

P.S. YES, I know I wrote down 13 goals. I’m fairly certain I won’t be able to attain one of them. {gee, I wonder which one?} 🙂 But I wanted to add it in there anyway because I believe in miracles.

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