Mommy To Bees

Christmas in July... shopping anyway

One of my items on my 52 To Do list for this year was to go Christmas shopping in July.

Check.

I won't be sharing what was purchased though.

It's a surprise!

Linen closet.....

Grr, I hate my linen closet.  I have yet to live somewhere with a good linen closet.

 

Top shelf: extra sheets; my towels; my bathmats & wash cloths; my hand towels

Middle-top shelf: Lori's: wash cloths & face cloths; towels & bath mats (orange)

Kyler's: towels & bath mats (green); wash cloths & face cloths

Middle-bottom shelf: Lori's sheets; Ky's sheets; swimming towels; beach towels; extra towels

Bottom shelf: water

 

 

52 - To do, update April 27

Finally created a rotating 3-month menu.  We'll see how I like it.

Download Menu  (Excel file)

52 - To do, update April 23

I love love love doing a 52-to list!!  I am certainly a box checker and a list maker and this also challenges me!!!

So!!!  Update!

My list!

5. Finish a journal - daily writing

    (I'm still chugging along!)

10. Go to Tokyo

    Check.  No pictures.

12. Find a new Shrine for cherry blossom pictures

    Check!!  Have pictures, will update in the next day or two.

17. Do a week-in-the-life project

    Planned for next week or else the week after.

18. Learn to make a new dinner

    Check!  Tamagoyaki on rice

22. Have all my laundry done (washed, folded, and put away), for one day

    Check.  No pictures.

23. Read a new book by an author I've never read before

    Check!  L.J. Smith writes vampire novels.  I much prefer the Sookie Stackhouse series and Twilight.

26. Teach Lori a new art craft/skill

    Check, again!  Pictures of her new birthday present coming!

42. Take pictures at a shrine

    Check!!  Have pictures, will update in the next day or two.  AND, a different shrine than #12.

52 - To do, update April 2

Okay, so I've done a few items on my list:

# 3: Pictures at a Temple Post 1 & Post 2

# 40: Go to the Big Buddha: Mar 27: Temple post & me

# 49 Go to Tokyo Disneyland: Mar 29: Unexpected Result

52 - To do, update March 14

So, I like this 52-to do for 2010 list.  I think this is something I am going to have to continue.

I've already dropped one item.  I liked the idea and maybe in the future it will be something I could continue, but at this time.... wasn't happening. 

1. Photograph the same spot on the 11th and 

25th of every month

I have been very successful on this one:

5. Finish a journal - daily writing

Lori started something new: 

26. Teach Lori a new art craft/skill

She has started counted cross stitching!  

This one:

43. Use my food dehydrator once a month

Has been hit and miss.  I used it in Jan, but not in Feb.  Mar is 1/2 way over and I don't think anything is going to get made.  Maybe April.

I've been making homemade pizza with this new recipe, but I've decided that I do NOT like it.  So, I'm back to trying new recipes.

46. Find the perfect homemade pizza recipe

To do for 52 weeks

Another idea I am stealing this year is 52 weeks of To Do!  Here is my list of 52 things I want to accomplish this year:

1. Photograph the same spot on the 11th and 25th of every month

    Scratch #1: not happening this year

2. Scrapbook one weekend for 8 hours 

3. Go to a Temple and take pictures

    Mar 27: Walk & Temple

4. Take pictures for one day and scrapbook them ALL the next day

5. Finish a journal - daily writing

6. Create my own camera strap for my camera

7. Create a tutorial on my blog for making that camera strap

8. Create my own iPod bean bag

9. Create a tutorial on my blog for making that bean bag

10. Go to Tokyo

    No pictures.

11. Mail 5 boxes to my deployed husband

12. Find a new Shrine for cherry blossom pictures

    Pictures coming.

13. Spend a day with just Kyler

14. Spend a day with just Lori

15. Spend a day with just A

16. Spend a day by myself

17. Do a week-in-the-life project

18. Learn to make a new dinner

    Tamagoyaki on rice

19. Learn to bake a new dessert

20. Do not go to Yokosuka for one week

21. Quilt everyday for a week

22. Have all my laundry done (washed, folded, and put away), for one day

23. Read a new book by an author I've never read before

24. Go electronic-less for one full day

25. Go electronic-less for one full weekend

26. Teach Lori a new art craft/skill

    Mar 14: Cross Stitch

    Pictures coming soon.

27. Teach myself a new art craft/skill

28. Blog a-day-in-the-life-of us (homeschool day)

29. Blog a-day-in-the-life-of us (non-homeschool day)

30. Catalog all of my digital pictures

31. Catch up on 2010 scrapbooking

32. Catch up on 2009 scrapbooking

33. Catch up on 2008 scrapbooking

34. Create my own quilt pattern

35. Make my own quilt

36. Take family portraits

37. Learn to make croissants

38. Write my husband a letter a week (snail mail) while he is deployed

39. Go to Zushi beach for fire works

40. Go to the Big Buddha

    Mar 27: Temple post & me

41. Learn how to knit

42. Take pictures at a shrine

43. Use my food dehydrator once a month

    Jan: check

    Feb: nope

    Mar: don't see it happening

    Apr: nope....again

44. Create a rotating 3-month menu

    We'll see....

45. Read the kids a Christmas book a week

46. Find the perfect homemade pizza recipe

    March 14: still searching and trying

47. Take the train on all outings for 1 month (minus 2-4 commissary trips with neighbors)

48. Go Christmas shopping in July

49. Go to Tokyo Disneyland

    Mar 29: Unexpected Result

50. Rearrange my linen closet, and keep doing it until I find something that works

    Linen closet

51. Make homemade Christmas ornaments

52. Create 4 tree patterns