Leona's zero day challenge: January 2010

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Happy New Year! It's about time I get on here and update! (I know its late!)

I have completed 3 more tasks on my list - made a quilt, went one month with no pop and we served Thanksgiving dinner at a soup kitchen.

Grace's quilt!

These are the girls on Thanksgiving eating after their hard work in the Soup Kitchen.

I have also made a bunch of yummy cookies and recipes! I will be sharing them in the next post!

The List:

Items that have been completed will be in Blue. Items in progress will be italicized.

Creativity
1. post to stamping blog 15/143
2. catch up Grace's Scrapbook
3. catch up Madelyn's Scrapbook
4. start and keep up with Brooke's scrapbook
5. start and keep up with Dakota's scrapbook
6. finish sihoulette portrait of Grace and Madelyn
7. make each kid a halloween costume 0/4
8. have christmas cards made by nov 1 (yr 2010, 2011)
9. make bday cards for everyone in my family (5 members throughout 09-12) 2/10
10. learn 5 photo editing techniques with PhotoShop 0/5
11. finish the kids mural
12. finish the name projects 0/3
13. sell on of my creations
14. get of on my creations published in a magazine
15. Help Matt make a Daddy/Daughter pg for each scrapbook 0/4
16. blog day zero challenge
17. learn to crochet or knit (both?)
18. make a quilt
19. finish girls bedding project 0/2
20. enter gingerbread house contest
21. buy canvas' for each girl and let them creatively paint as they wish - display in home 0/4

Family
22. have a family game/movie night once a week 54/143
23. go geo caching with kids 2/5
24. go to an indoor waterpark
25. go on a family vacation to Canada
26. buy a camper
27. take a family camping trip
28. celebrate the true meaning of christmas incorporating our traditions
29. Madelyn's special day with parents 0/2
30. Grace's special day with parents 0/2
31. Dakota's special day with parents 0/2
32. Brooke's special day with parents 0/2
33. Move the twins into their own bedroom
34. go to visit an aqurium
35. Have Madelyn and Grace serve at a soup kitchen durning the holidays with Matt and I
36. Go Green - minimum of 5 things to help the environment 2/5
37. participate in operation christmas child www.samaritanpurse.com 0/2
38. have an all handmade christmas
39. place something on freecycle monthly 12/33

Matt
40. go to the Carousel Dinner Theatre with Matt
41. learn to shoot a gun and go hunting with Matt
42. Have Date Nights 12/33
43. see a broadway play with Matt
44. go paintballing
45. cook a fancy dinner for 2
46. complete the love dare

Home
47. Create a filing system and catch up on all filing
48. put my laundry away after each wash
49. have a yard same spring/summer '10
50. purge for yard sale
51. put flowers in my flowerbeds
52. back up photos/files monthly 12/33
53. declutter my kitchen (get rid of the stacks)
54. paint every room in the house
55. Build the 'well' to go over the well
56. melaluca-nize our home
57. create a realistic/reasonable cleaning schedule

Cooking
58. make a special fondant cake for matt and each child for their birthdays 0/5
59. learn to make 10 commonly prepackaged foods homemade 1/10
60. find 5 fish dishes that the family likes 1/5
61. bake 1 new cookie recipe each month 12/33
62. make homemade doughnut
63. make/jar applesauce
64. make/jar applebutter
65. try 1 new recipe per week 54/143
66. introduce 10 new fruit/veggies to meals 1/10
67. use the crockpot everyday for 1 wk

Personal
68. get down to 125 lbs
69. once weight is lost - wear a bikini again
70. once weight is lost - get belly button pierced
71.take a multivitamin daily
72. learn a line dance even if that means take a lesson
73. create a cookbook of my recipes to pass onto my kids
74. meet a dork sister
75. make another attempt to contact my biological father
76. go to my dad's grave
77. spend more time with my mom
78. volunteer - Hospice?? pending may change
79. set a christmas budget and stick to it
80. read the bible
81. Get a Pedicure
82. Send a just because card 1/20
83. Support Ohio farmers - got to each pick your own patch in Geauga County 0/6
84. Do hair and make up weekly 54/143
85. finish one complete cycle of 90X
86. become more frugal
87. get eyebrows waxed monthly 12/33
88. visit the dentist and get the dreaded rootcanal done
89. read the twilight series (I guess I need to know what all the hype is about) 3/4
90. pay for a person meal after me in the drive through
91. donate blood
92. no pop - 1 month
93. participate in post crossing 0/15
94. do Aflec papework
95. do something speical with my mom - my treat
96. read the books that I bought that are waiting to be read
97. get clairnet revamped for Madelyn
98. Learn how to use my Dad's 35mm camera
99. tip a great waiter/waitress 100%
100. do a digital scrapbook about this challenge
101.create a new list

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

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