If I'm actually going to post every day for 31 days, the weekends are going to have to be something easy. I thought I would do monthly and weekly goals each Saturday. October is one of my favorite months, but it also seems to be one of the busiest. Our family has a lot going on this month, and this will also keep me organized!
This Month:
Personal -
Write 1 letter each week.
Organize photos into albums.
Start printing 2021 photos.
Homeschool -
Have the kids write 1 letter each week.
Do a Reformation Day study with the kids.
Christmas -
Clean out the toys before Christmas.
Buy Christmas presents.
Order Christmas card photos.
Fall Fun -
Make an apple pie with the kids.
Go to a corn maze as a family.
Finish reading Jane Eyre with friends.
Household -
Create a meal plan for the month.
Decorate for fall.
Hang new photos on the wall.
Finish cutting and stacking firewood with Derek.
(Derek and my dad fixing the chainsaw when we went to cut firewood last weekend.)This Week:
Go to pumpkin patch with friends.
Go on a fall hike.
Mail letters to friends.
Start a fall nature study with the kids.
Read Liane Moriarty's new book.
A lot of my goals this month revolve around getting ready for Christmas, and printing and organizing photos.
I've been working for the last month on getting caught up on printing photos, and it's a long, slow process. I've taken literally thousands of photos every year since my kids were born, and even though I have a system now, a lot of my older photos are pretty unorganized. So it's a matter of sorting them on my computer, picking out the good ones, and then narrowing it down to about 600 photos per year so they'll fit into albums. It's harder than it sounds! Then, once the photos arrive, it takes quite a bit of time to sort them chronologically and get them into the albums. I also would like to get our family photo canvases updated for our walls - thankfully Walmart has really reasonably priced photo products, so it's just a matter of getting them ordered.
I have also been hearing from multiple sources how it would be a good idea to prepare early for Christmas this year, so my mind is already turning to December. I'll probably write more about this over the course of the month.
The rest is mostly fun stuff, to me at least - reading goals, fun things I want to do with the kids during the fall, and letter-writing, which is another personal habit I am attempting to resurrect this fall.
I've never been great at goal-setting or goal-meeting, but as I said, this month is actually pretty busy, and maybe having it all written down will help keep me focused. We'll see how it goes!
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