My 12 Goals for 2017 : Week 10 of 52

My goals for 2017

Get 7- 8 Hours of Sleep Each Night

Hey! I did pretty good this past week. Yay me.

Make Saving a Priority, Not an Idea

Over the weekend my mom and I celebrated our birthdays and she was so pleased with her gift to me I just had to share. It was a free glass jar from the bank filled with complimentary bath salts from a recent hotel stay, tied with a recycled pink ribbon {off a box her friend had given her} and secured with a leaf sticker from an empty box of cookies. Go MOM. And check out that Pinky the flamingo birthday card! 😉 Isn’t is cute? Pinky was hiding a gift card to Panera inside.

Live a little

My mom wanted to go bowling for our birthdays, so we did.

Actual quotes from my dad:

• “The last time I went bowling was when I was 15.”
• “This is a lot more exercise than I anticipated.” 😉

Visit 52 REAL Bakeries

Last week we visited Coyle’s Bakeshop in Seattle, Washington and discovered the best lemon tart on the planet. If you are not a continuer of lemon tarts… let me tell you, there is a HUGE difference between the crapola lemon tart you find at the grocery store {that comes out of a 5 gallon tub of lemon goo} vs the hand crafted, small batch lemon curd you’ll find in a real patisserie shop. Yada yada yada lemon tarts are my bomb diggity.

The Girl and I will be headed east in a few weeks and we have TON of new bakeries we want to check out so I think I’ll hold off on visiting anymore in Washington state for the time being.

Have 1 “no spend” week each month

So far so good. I did it in January and February and I think I’ll save the last week in March for doing a “no spend” week.

Start a Line of Rug Hooking Patterns

I was looking through my stash last night and I counted out 7. My goal is 12 by the end of the year. I was working on two more patterns but got side tracked {with a special order, planning a trip and working on house projects} but I know I’ll be able to accomplish this by the end of the year {most likely sooner.}

Turn My Wool Stash into $2,500.

I hardly have anything listed right now but I still managed to sell $149.93 on my Etsy and Ebay pages this past week. That brings my total to $1474.40 for the year.

Play in the Dirt

The seedlings Mrs. HB and I planted are coming along well as is my backyard clean up projects. I wrote about them over on Dig For Your Dinner this morning.

Purge 250 Items Including Selling Larger Items We No Longer Feel We Need

Last sunday I had the boys go through all their tools and set aside anything they didn’t need/want so I could put them in the garage sale box. And this is all they would cough up. SERIOUSLY. Why did I even bother?

So far I’ve purged 56 items this year.

Learn to Crochet

I spent the week making more hooked rug flowers instead or working on granny squares. Bad Mavis.

Dote on My Husband Even More Than I Do Now.

The tables were turned this week as it was my birthday and the HH and Monkey Boy were the ones doting on me. Their combined shopping effort {clearly they stopped at Fred Meyer on their way home from work} yielded a giant box of candy and gift card to Panera and two frozen pies.

Now if you’re thinking, Gee Mavis, I had no idea you liked frozen Marie Callender’s pies… all I can say is neither did I. 😉 I didn’t ask but I’m guessing they thought the pies would be a wonderful gift because I like to bake fresh fruit pies during the summer months??? I HAVE NO IDEA!!!! The Girl and I are still scratching our heads at that one.

Fun fact: The Girl and I were watching a movie when the HH came home so I made him hide behind the bedroom door and touch/tap/hit the boxes so The Girl and I could guess what his presents to me were. We were able to identify a good 75% of them just by the sound of the packaging. Yee-Haw! It that’s not some cheesy entertainment I don’t know what is.

Lose the Muffin Top. {again}

Did you see the above post. 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 I should just buy a mumu dress now. Oh, and I suppose the Godiva Chocolate Cheesecake my parents gave me won’t help either.

Wear out {most of} the clothing I already own.

Yep Yep.

Try 52 New Recipes

The new recipes just keep rolling in. I’ll share what Mrs. HB made on Monday.

Read 52 Books

I’m still listening to A Dog’s Purpose on audio book. So far so good.

Give Back to 12 Different Organizations in My Community

So this is a horribly sad thing to share. A few days ago a mentor of my daughters was in a horrible car accident that left him paralyzed, on a ventilator, and in a coma. He has a baby and a young wife and in an instant some idiot who was driving too fast slammed into his car and has now changed the course of her friends life {and that of his family} forever. The whole thing is incredibly sad and there is nothing any of us can do about it but to help monetarily {they are in another state}. So this month, my mom and I each donated $100 to the family.

Life. You just never know. You’ve got to live for today,  plan for tomorrow and hope it all works out. 🙁

And then, there’s those top secret goals we’re not talking about yet.

• Secret Goal #1
• Secret Goal #2
• Secret Goal #3
• Secret Goal #4

How about YOU? Did you set any goals for 2017? How are they coming along?

~Mavis

Read About My 2017 Goals HERE.