Quick update on 2016 Goals

I have been very busy the last few days. Its been tiresome, but encouraging to mark things off my goal list so soon into the year. 

1. Complete the 2016 Declutter challenge.

When I started the challenge last year I thought it would be a one year thing to get my house in order. I finished the challenge and still kept purging things. Now 6 days into the New Year I have 71 items gone. This year Vince and I are also having a small competition of who can get rid of more... I'm winning.

2. Have the following things finished when Isaac arrives.

I still need to finish hanging art on the walls in the Master Bedroom.

Secure speaker wires, so Roomba stops trying to eat them.

This actually took a lot longer than I thought, but its done!! After 3 years I don’t have wires running across the floor anymore.

Make sure birthing boxes are ready… by next Friday!

Rehang laundry room shelves.

I added this to the list because I have done a lot this week and I’d like the record to show that! Of course because the walls and/or anchors I used are weird, the shelves I had hung were starting to fall down and I had to stop what I was doing Monday to address this issue. My luck the midwives would have gone to wash the sheets after the birth and shelves would have fallen on them. They are now screwed into studs, so they shouldn’t go anywhere!

3. Finish the following projects by end of year.

Clean out the Garage.

Cut down trees in back yard… Finally.

Re-gravel paths.

4. Pay off some of our debt by end of year.

Pay of Credit Card #1 – We took the money we received for Christmas and paid this off, that was a great way to start the New Year!

Pay off Credit Card #2

Pay off half of Student loan #1

5. If God sees fit, have Isaac at home.

6. Survive the first year with Isaac.

7. Eat more meals from scratch, made with local foods.

8. Keep making the house less toxic.

9. Complete a home inventory list.

10. Special Secret Goal