101 Things To Do In 1001 Days
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
1. Start and finish bedroom loft.
2. Raise rabbits for meat.
3. Start a worm composting box.
4. Maintain a regular home school schedule.
5. Start the kitchen renovation.
6. Rebuild front deck. - scheduled for July / August 2010
7. Re-shingle front portion of the roof. - scheduled for Summer 2011
14. Walk three times a week.
15. Read an adult book a week.
16. Read to the kids daily for half an hour.
17. Modify the suburban. J needs a vehicle to work like a truck. We have this and it's paid for. We'll make it work.
19. Work on getting utility trailer licensed.
20. Insulate the windows in the sanctuary. Keep the cold out and the heat in, in the winter and vise versa in the summer.
21. Grow and maintain a herb garden.
22. Write snail mail letters weekly.
23. Learn, use and teach more sign language to the children.
24. Turn computer off by 4 PM 3 nights a week.
25. Organize toy storage.
26. Learn to crochet.
27. Start sewing - a project a month.
28. Become more actively involved in local politics. (Needs defining. What do we want to do?)
29. Visit seniors' home twice a month.
30. Have guests from church or the community over for a meal once a month.
31. Blog about our homeschooling weekly (or more).
32. Drink half my weight in ounces of non-diuretic liquid daily.
33. Have "coffee" with a friend twice a month.
34. Give monthly to the food bank.
35. Put in a main floor bathroom.
36. Put a shower curtain up around the tub.
37. Get the wood furnace in working order by winter 2009.
38. Schedule yearly dental check ups for the family.
39. Schedule yearly optometrist check ups for the family.
40. Read or listen to the Bible daily.
41. Cut TV time for children to two hours of their programming a day. I try to leave the TV off. I want them to have no more than two hours but would certainly rather less. However, the TV is J's thing to do to relax, so if the children are still awake in the evening when it is on I'm not going to fight the battle to keep them away from their dad while he's watching TV and interacting with them at that time.
42. Actively move away from plastics to glass or stainless steel. With all the scare of stuff in plastics, this feels safer to me. I haven't done a tonne of research but I want to get away from them anyway and also get away from using the microwave. So that's kinda a two in one here.
43. Start making my own yogurt. This means I need to get a yogurt maker or go WAY out on a limb and try it without! Scary thought.
44. Start growing our own tobacco. I know, I know, smoking is terrible but without all the pesticides and sprays it should be healthier. Plus it's homeschooling for the kids!
45. Find a small whole Bible to carry with me like I do my cell phone. I read a blog somewhere that this woman was challenged or challenged herself to do with her Bible as she does for her cellphone. So if she forgot her Bible she'd go home for it because that's what she would do if she'd left her cellphone. Or if she turns her cell on first thing in the morning, to read her Bible then too. Our society has become so dependent on technology and we need to get away from that a little and get back into God's Word and be dependent on that instead! I never saved the blog and I don't know how she did, but I'm going to give it a shot.
46. Write M's birth story.
47. Write R's birth story.
48. Learn to quilt. This will be a winter project.
49. At least once, go away overnight without the kids, just for us.
50. Make each 29th of the month special as a reminder of our wedding anniversary.
51. Clear out brush and trees.
52. Build a sandbox.
53. Fix clothesline. Spring 2009.
54. Do belly dancing workout video at least twice a week.
55. Learn to dance.
56. Go on a picnic a couple times during the summers.
57. Take day trips six times a year to museums or local historical sites.
58. Go sledding a couple times each winter.
59. Paint the snow with food coloring.
60. Build a snowman.
61. Weekly coffee or date with DH.
62. Institute and stick to the "something in = something out" rule to keep down the clutter.
63. Visit Camrose and New Norway a couple times.
64. Change kitchen towels to waffle type towels. Flylady has good ones!
65. Organize and figure out good storage for craft supplies.
66. Organize homeschool books and supplies better.
67. Set up our homeschool area.
68. Re-write master/monthly grocery list.
69. Organize shed to make it usable as a workshop.
70. Learn to use power tools to make things for our home such as decorations.
71. Learn basic electrical.
72. Journal daily.
73. Review The Hidden Art of Homemaking six times a year to add to our home.
74. Create a woodworking area.
75. Become more actively involved in provincial politics. (Needs defining. What do we want to do?)
76. Become more actively involved in federal politics. (Needs defining. What do we want to do?)
77. Start a woodworking project.
79. Decorate the main room / sanctuary.
80. Completely deal with current work issue.
81. Clean out front porch area. Put things where they belong. Get rid of what we don't want or need.
82. Re-decorate / Get a new entertainment center.
83. Get new glass or fix the glass table some other way.
84. Jump in puddles with the children.
85. Play in the rain.
86. Build or obtain shelving for the basement.
87. Put a door on the basement bathroom and enclose it even if it is temporary. This will make it more comfortable for everyone - guests and residents!!
88. Re-build the back entrance to make it safer and harder to break into.
89. Copy all audio / mp3 files to disc to get them off the computer.
90. Build a fence.
91. Buy supplies for solar and wind power. Move towards getting those things installed.
92. Take fire course S-300.
93. Take fire course S-500.
94. Take fire course S-600.
95. Take fire course S-700.
96. Take fire course S-800.
97. Take fire course S-200.
98. Take fire course S-400.
99. Take fire course S-1000.
100. Eat supper at the table, as a family at least three times a week.
101. Support Stollery Children's Hospital.
