Mom (and Dad) fixed the chair and she ate her vegetables!

This post is coming about 12 hours past the due time because I didn't do my main goal until this morning. But now, thanks to a lot of help from Dad, it's done. The chair is finally repaired!



In its useless shape.

A snippet of cheese cloth on the peg ends, some Elmer's wood glue, and a nice pipe clamp.
Now it just needs some time to set.

Ta-da! Fully functioning....almost.
(The glue needs 24 hours to cure before it can be sat on.)

 

Now, I set an ongoing goal--maybe for two more blog cycles--to eat eight different vegetables in the week. That may not seem like a lot to you, but it's better than I've been doing. I must now improve on spreading the vegetables around the week. Here's what our table looked like last night as I sought to make my goal.

From the top: glazed carrots (left over from Sunday), broccoli salad (left over from Sunday), corn cut from the cob (left over from Sunday), tomatoes, fresh carrots (since the other carrot dish was cooked and these are raw, I counted both), tomatoes, and celery. I didn't count the broccoli again as they were both raw. It's a picture of procrastination.

Now for this coming week....hmmm. I can't get carried away because we're leaving town on Saturday for our family camp. Okay, here we go....

 

The new goal is:

Clean our bedroom

 

And the ongoing goal, slightly modified, is: 

Eat 8 full servings of vegetables over at least 4 days. 

Goal Complete

I planted my flower pot!!!  I'll try and come up with a good goal to post on sunday, but for now the goal is to live through this week.

So, I didn't finish my scarf, but that is alright since I won't be wearing it for several months anyway. I don't have much down time, so there is probably better use of the little free time I do have. It will mainly be something I can do when I am wanting to relax in front of the TV.

Mom wanted me to tell the story of how I got the yarn:
Over Memorial Day Weekend we went up to Montana for Craig to go fishing with his Grandpa. They went out on Saturday and Kara (my mother-in-law) and I went on a "honey run." There is this wildflower honey she bought last year from a tiny shop in a tiny town that isn't crystallized even a year later. She wanted to get some for her mother's birthday, so we went to Beaverslide Dry Goods in Dupuyer, MT. It's so small that there isn't even a Wikipedia page I can link to. This store is pretty small and it serves as a consignment shop, convenience store, and yarn shop. I believe the owners of the store are the ones who supply the wool for the yarn. Someone else in town makes the honey. Anyways, the yarn looked so beautiful and I loved the colors, so I bought a spool and some knitting needles and for several hours over the trip.

My New Goal: Cook two meals this week that don't involve pasta. I bought ingredients for hamburgers last night and we are thawing out the trout Craig and I caught in MT to cook tonight on the grill with corn.

Fixing the old wooden chair. And still eating my vegetables.

I set a goal to eat 8 vegetables this week.

On Tuesday I made fresh tomato soup using a recipe highly recommended by my mom and sister, Kathy. Two pounds plum tomatoes, golden bell pepper, summer squash, lots of onion. I ate a big bowlful. Jim wasn't interested, nor was Caitlin when she dropped by. With good reason--I didn't like it at all.

I had some tomatoes Thursday and Friday. My memory fogs for Saturday.

On Sunday I made a delicious recipe with sautéed vegetables (zucchini, leek, onion, fire-roasted tomatoes, olive oil, and basil), served with grilled chicken and whole wheat thin spaghetti. Delicious!

I ate some more today. In addition, today I made a broccoli salad for our Empty Nesters dinner party. Love that stuff, but seldom make it. So that has broccoli and red onion. At the party I also had a big bunch of Caesar Salad, so a serving of lettuce.

So, what's the count? It looks like 10 or so different veggies. Good for me!
plum tomatoes
golden bell pepper
summer squash
onion
tomatoes again
zucchini
leek
onion again
fire-roasted tomato
basil
broccoli
red onion
lettuce

Serendipitous benefits:
Cleaned fridge thoroughly
Did an hour of pool walking this morning with a friend
Admired my drapes.

My new goal:
Repair disconnected joints on old brown Windsor chair.

Now, I'm going to keep a longer term goal that I hope will become a habit:
Eat 8 different veggies this week.

Update: We read all but one day last week! This was tricky because this goal landed on a week where Cameron was home late most nights. The biggest difference between the start of the week and now is that Maddie isn't dragging her feet when it's time to read. We'll keep going with this, and I'll report on her progress periodically.

New Goal: To style my hair 3 times this week - no pony-tails :)

Mom's new goal

I've delayed posting as long as I can, I guess. I sent you all two other emails to prolong my reporting time.

You might have guessed the haltingness: I didn't exercise 6 times. But I did exercise 2 times! Who wouldn't have guessed that this would be a tough goal for me.

For this coming week, I will lay down only one very cool goal. (Maybe the energy from that will spring me into some exercise action.)

MY GOAL: I will use 8 different kinds of vegetables in my meal preparations this week. My first spots to acquire the veggies will be from my produce drawers in my fridge.

I'm anxious to hear how the rest of you have fared and what your new goals are.

Flowers

My initial reaction to this blog was much like Janet's.  To make a goal that doesn't involve keeping a straight house, taking care of the little ones or getting dinner on the table is laughable.  I feel nauseated (and no I'm not pregnant) just thinking about making ANOTHER goal that involves one of those three things.  So, I will do my best to contribute and hopefully I can make some fun goals that don't involve those three.  My goal this week is to plant some flowers in a flower pot.  I have a pot.  I have soil.  I have flowers.  All I have to do is plant.  Super hard!! : )