I don't know about the rest of you, but when I woke up at 5:15 to help a sobbing Pirate get his blanket of the floor, I had FLAT OUT FORGOTTEN that it was Monday. I got back in bed all nice and warm and then, "OH CRAP!" It was not a pleasant moment.
We survived the single parent weekend, barely. By the time I put Buggy down last night he was so crabby from lack of sleep we both wanted to cry. Every time he'd go to sleep Mr. I-Am-Being-Quiet would wake him right back up. I managed to actually read quite a bit last night, am perilously close to finishing something! Ok, I'm within 100 pages, that's close, right?
I didn't do so well on the To Do list last week (recap at the end) but thought I'd give it another shot this week.
So, The Week Ahead, created by SheIsTooFondOfBooks.
Monday- Plan holiday menu (what, you mean most of you have already done this?) Go grocery shopping. Try to spend 30 minutes sewing. Read two chapters. Remind husband to get tree permit. Return movies to redbox. Return books to library.
Tuesday- Think about Pie. Mmm. Pie. Finish up the commissioned jewelry bags (which are half done) and start cutting out stockings. Wait, find stockings first to use as pattern. Read two chapters. Remind husband to get tree permit.
Wednesday- Make pie. Think about cutting out commissioned crayon roles. Spend more time thinking about Brand New Website! (TBA later) Read two chapters. Clean house so that we don't spend Thanksgiving in a messy house. Remind husband to get tree permit.
Thursday- Cook. Eat. Read. Eat. Sew. Eat. Remind husband to get tree permit.
Friday- Go to work! Wish I was home with Mike and the boys. Clean house so we can make room for a Christmas Tree. Realize that the space we put the extra piece of furniture in every year now has shelves. (Or maybe realize that NOW, on Monday.) Remind husband to get tree permit.
Saturday- Finish crayon rolls. Start sewing stockings. Dig Christmas decor out of garage. Read two chapters.
Sunday- GET TREE. Decorate. Take pine needles out of the Bug's mouth. Read.
So how'd I do last week?
Monday-
Run to the store at lunch for red felt and cat litter.Tonight, cut red felt stockings and white trim. Read at least two chaptersTuesday-Find stockings (real ones) so that I can make a
template to make the Bug's.Read at least two chapters.Cut circles for
jewelry bags.Figure out how to put numbers on the stockingsWednesday-
TBR Day. Read at least two chapters.Sew jewelry bags.Ponder fabric choices for
commissioned crayon rolls Consider using stash, not buying.
Thursday-Freak out because Thanksgiving is a weekBuy turkey. Assemble advent calendar from felt stockings
away and we do not have a turkey.Read at least two chapters.Look for lost journalFriday-
Celebrate because it is Friday! Read at least two chaptersWhew.
I'm sure you've heard this before, but enjoy the time with your little ones. When they're all grown up, you'll have plenty of time to read, but you sure will miss them.
ReplyDelete1. You have to put "think about pie" on your to do list? I think about pie all the time, automatically. As evidenced by my waist line!
ReplyDelete2. What is a tree permit?
Also, I started on my first quilt this weekend. When you make a quilt, do you make your own binding, or do you just buy bias tape stuff?
ReplyDeleteAlso, do you hand quilt it or machine quilt it...and if you hand quilt it, how do you keep it from coming undone when you wash it. Is there a trick to that?
Also, I started on my first quilt this weekend. When you make a quilt, do you make your own binding, or do you just buy bias tape stuff?
ReplyDeleteAlso, do you hand quilt it or machine quilt it...and if you hand quilt it, how do you keep it from coming undone when you wash it. Is there a trick to that?
bermudaonion, for all my complaining, I'm not in a hurry. They are great boys.
ReplyDeleteMercy's maid, I honestly don't think about pie so much. I think about ice cream instead.
We will go chop a tree down in the wild, you have to buy a permit for that, it's way cheaper than buying one.
I do make my own binding. I bought bias tape for my very first, and it worked fine, but I like to match it up now. If you make it, I recommend making it wide the first time because it's a lot easier. I like 2.5 inch strips myself (which ends up with about 1/2 inch on each side of the quilt.) I machine quilt, and I quilt all the way under where the binding will be OR I backstich at the ends of line. I have no idea how a hand quilter would do it. I'd think little knots would look bad, but really don't know.
Yummmm...pieeeeee. You made me hungry and it's only a little after 9am here.
ReplyDeleteWhat's the deal with the tree permit? You need a permit to get a Christmas tree?
If your hubby is anything like mine even a sticky note to his steering wheel won't help to remind him.
Pie.....mmmmmm I love pie. I need to think about pie also. I will do that for the next hour or so.
ReplyDeleteMs. Onion is so right.
ReplyDeleteI've done exactly what you did -- woke up thinking it was Sunday and then either went back to sleep and woke up in horror or realized before I drifted off. I discovered -- when my son was taking piano lessons on Mondays -- that for some reason I cannot remember a Monday appointment to save my life. We repeatedly missed piano lessons. And, I obviously knew it was Monday because he had school, but still forgot. That piano teacher wasn't very fond of me. Now, I'm really careful about that -- I never make a Monday appt. for *anything*.
I really enjoy reading your todo list--isn't that weird? I am a planner through and through, but my husband is fly by his seat, so my plans usually get tossed and somewhere in the past 2 years I've given up trying to make them. I don't even know what I'll cook tonight for dinner as we don't have any meat thawed. Maybe leftover apple pie.
ReplyDeleteA real tree huh? I haven't seen one of those in ages! :P