101 in 1001

I say this a lot through out the year, its true, but this is one of my favorite times of year.

There is something so fresh new and clean about January.

The christmas decorations are put away, and the house has been redecorated with a fresh perspective.

Its also a time of year for lists.

I love lists.

Here is a big 'ol list I've been working on for a while now...

a work in progress

101 things to do in 1001 days.

Nothing written in stone, lord knows I don't work that way.

Goals.

Goals, plans, aspirations.  Those I can handle, those I like.  For clarity I broke mine down into categories.  Thank you to Sophia for the category idea!

Home

    * Food*

1.    learn to make brown sourdough bread.

2.    Raw food trail for a day

3.    Raw food once a day for a week (month?)

4.    Make a cheesecake

5.    Find a healthy cookie recipe

6.    Make black rice

7.    Make a low fat frozen yogurt

    *Environment*

8.     Force paper whites

9.     3 low hanging towel hooks for the babies

10.   Shoe shelves for the babies

11.   Start replacing dinner plates, and saucers with hand thrown, hand made

12.   Start replacing bowls with hand thrown, hand made

13.   Get a set of clear recycled wine bottle glasses

14.   Get a set of blue recycled wine bottle glasses (contact company for special order?)

15.   Make a salve from beeswax

16.   Cover kitchen chair cushions, or replace the whole chair

17.   Learn to use my carpet shampooer, then USE it!

18.   Get rugs for kitchen and bathrooms

19.   Continue publishing my own calendars

20.   Replace our broken 2nd fridge- freezer and continue using it

Family

    *all of us*

21.   Teach babies to swim

22.   Take a family vacation, just the 4 (5) of us

23.   Visit the Rio Salado Habitat Restoration Area (volunteer?)

24.   Camping on the ocean

25.   Rescue a puppy

26.   Host a potluck game night

27.   Camping on the North Rim (of the Grand Canyon)

28.   Children's Museum

29.   Science Museum

30.   Take every one to the Symphony (in the park?)

31.   Women's softball game

32.   Puppet Theater

33.   Outdoor concert, festival

    *Matt*

34.    Movie Date

35.    Quiessence.  Before the baby comes.

36.   Dinner date at a new (to us) restaurant

    *Ava*

37.    A ballet date

38.    Pedicures

39.    Read Ann of Green Gables

40.    Read Heidi

41.    Read  Secret Garden

42.    Read Black Beauty

     *Cyrus*

43.    Start a baby book

44.    Frame and hang photo aprox age 6-9 months

    *Little One*

45.     Home birth

46.     Start a baby book

47.     Frame and hang photo aprox age 6-9 months

48.     Make a cast of hand and frame.  Give to Matt for christmas

49.     Make a baby doll

Me

50.     29 days of Giving

51.     Get a tatoo

52.     A trip to the dentist

53.     A trip to the ophthalmologist

54.     A trip to the Naturopath

55.    Get a bicycle

56.    Start Bach Flower Remedy

57.    Practice Kundalini prenatal yoga

58.    Buy hair rollers, and learn to use them

59.    Go to one of "my" concerts with Matt

60.    Have a blessing way

61.    Start my birthing book library (Ina May Gaskin's work,  Gurmukh's works, Thinking woman's guide,

         Hypnobirthing, Birthing From Within... get more for list)

62.    Get an SLR camera, and learn to use it

63.    Attend a La Leche League meeting

64.    Get back to Brags vinegar and honey once a day

65.    Postpartum set weight loss goals

66.    Go estate sale shopping

67.    Start a dream journal

Read

68.    The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe (series)

69.    Catch 22

70.    Pride and Prejudice  ( or Jane Eyre)

71.    Wuthering Heights

72.    Anais Nin and Henry Miller (maybe Tropic of Capricorn?)

73.    Shakespeare's Sonnets

74.    Whitman's Leaves of Grass

75.    Kipling's  Kim

76.    Animal Farm

77.    Bram Stoker's Dracula

78.    Grapes of Wrath 

79.    Catcher in the Rye

80.    To Kill a Mocking Bird

81.    Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 

 See

82.    The Godfather Trilogy

83.    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

84.    Citizen Kane

85.    Annie Hall

Craft` Make

86.    Baby Hats

87.    Baby pants

88.    Baby blankets

89.    Christmas placemats

90.    Valentine placemats

91.    4th of July placemats

92.    Rainbow tie-dye the big play silk (and baby whites)

93.    Sew a t shirt skirt for me

94.    A christmas lap blanket

95.    Knit a baby blanket

96.    Learn to crochet

97.    New Advent calendar 

98.    Throw pillows for the couch

99.    Diaper wipes

100.    Learn to knit "round"

101.    Knit caps for all my babies

  

There you have it.  My list.  Some of the items are painfully simple, some will be harder to attain.  It might seems silly to put movies on this list but the way I've see it I've gone this long saying "I should really see that sometime" and I haven't.  So now its there.

I would like to try and update my list once a month.  I will cross off accomplished items, and items in progress I will make purple.  Sophia has the idea to pay herself $5 for each number crossed off.  That's a darn good idea!

  

Here's to all of us getting out there and making things happen!  Good luck to us!