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Monday Manifesto

(self portrait by Olivia and Saragh)

Are those eyes beautiful or what!  I may be biased, but I do love blue eyes.

I did pretty well with my list from last week.  The gardening will be moved to this week because I need Oliver's help with it.  He's leaving to go up north on a backpacking trip on Thursday, so I'm going to have to hurry!  Here's my list for this week.

* Turn veggie bed

*Plant seeds

*Clean both side of the basement

*Clean up and organize yard toys

Well, that's it for this week.  Since I'll be a single parent more than half the week, I'm taking it easy.  I'll check back in next Monday!

Monday Manifesto

(I know you've probably seen this picture before, but it happens to be one of my all time favorites!)

Well, now that I am back to blogging, I'll be doing the Monday Manifesto again.  This really helped me get some of the extra stuff done that was not happening before, so you'll have to bear with me.

*Finish the girls Easter outfits

*Put the snow clothes away.  They have all been washed and are currently laying in a heap on the basement floor.  I know that I may very well have to pull them back out again, but they can't just keep laying there.

*Run/walk 3 times this week.  I'm starting a program called Couch to 5K (otherwise known as c25k) in an attempt to get my butt up off the couch and into smaller pants.  I'm planning to post separate updates here on a regular basis

*Go to the park.  Hopefully with friends to play but also at least once for a nature walk.

*Turn the veggie beds and prepare to plant

*Plant some spring veggies and greens.

These are all starred because I need to get them all done this week.  I'll check back in next Monday with an update.

Monday Manifesto...ummm kind of

Okay, so I'm a little late this week.  We can't all be perfect, so I have volunteered not to try :o)

I did pretty good with last week's list, but the sewing room and car cleaning seem to be alluding me.  I think I'm giving up on the car until it warms up.  Who wants to stand out in the garage in the cold and clean up all the evidence of their children's slovenly ways?  Yeah, me neither!   Also, I frogged my mother's sweater and will be picking a new pattern for her.  Those lace charts just kicked my sorry butt.  Here's this weeks manifesto...

*Have the dishwasher empty before dinner so dinner dishes can go directly into it rather than being loaded onto the counter. 

*Finish the girls thank-you notes (we made headway, but still have several to do)

*Clean the sewing room/office side of the basement (I know what you're thinking and you can just zip it)

Start working on the shower curtain for the downstairs bathroom.  This means finding a queen or king size white bed sheet and then rummaging through my fabric scraps.  That's all I'm hoping for.

Start working on my knitting needle case

I'll check back in next week, hopefully on Monday) and tel you how I did.  My good friend, Kerry threatened to start checking in on Wednesday so I'd better get busy!

Monday Manifesto

* Clean office/sewing room side of basement

*Finish Firefly Lane

*Knit 5 inches of my Mom's sweater

*Have the girls write their thank you notes for birthday presents

Clean out the Durango

Clean out under the upstairs bathroom sink

Organize the linen closet

I got half of the stuff from last week's list done and the other half now appear on this list!  Let's hope that I can accomplish all of this this week.

Monday Manifesto

* Finish The Blue Cotton Gown

* Organize craft for the birthday party

Clean office/sewing side of basement

Clean out the Durango

I ended up getting all of the things on my list from last week done!  That was so exhilarating that I am going to try for that again this week.  It's a fairly short list because we're having a birthday party this weekend for Olivia and Anna and my friend Roen's daughters and that is going to occupy a lot of my time.  I'll check in again next Monday and let you know how I did.