2024 Goals Week 6 of 52

This was another tough week. If you have never experienced a loved one with dementia then thank your lucky stars because it is one of the most heartbreaking things to watch. I feel selfish even writing about my goals when someone else is suffering so much, but there are some things I accomplished this week that just naturally happened due to time and my own personal habits.

Home repairs professionally done – New kitchen countertops, rip out over-the-oven microwave and replace with new exhaust hood, trim all fruit trees and cut down all sumac in the hedgerow.

Nothing on this one.

Home projects done by us – Paint all trim in kitchen, re-paint upper kitchen cabinets, paint ceiling and walls in hallway, finish painting and put up picket pallet fencing, finish painting master bedroom and hang mantle over bed, front porch stained or painted, new brick patio in the backyard.

Nothing done on this goal this week.

Sewing projects – Finish Joyce’s Rose, New curtains for kitchen window, new seat cover for kitchen chair, new curtain over cat’s window seat, Christmas tree skirt, finish winter and summer season x-stitch projects.

Nothing done

Read 30 books (It’s my goal every year)

This week I finished reading “Witch Is When I Said Goodbye” by Adele Abbott. This is the 10th book I have read by Ms. Abbott and her books are light and funny and easy to read.

Take at least 2 mini vacations and see my step-daughter’s new house in NC.

This is a goal for warmer months.

Garden goals – raise 500 lbs of produce, new kitchen garden in front and new fruit garden in back, compost all dug and reset, raised bed garden re-imagined.

Nothing worked on this week.

Exercise somehow every single day concentrating most on core and pelvic floor and mobility.

I managed 3x this past week! Yay!

Get all of my Etsy listings listed by March 31st so I can enjoy my garden in the Spring and summer months.

I got zero listings up this week.

Explore the Western NY Antique Trail (Yes, there is such a thing).

Nothing yet, but soon.

Explore at least 3 local walking/biking trails.

Warmer weather for this goal.

Sell 300 listings on Etsy this year.

I sold 1 listing this past week 285 to go 🙂

I haven’t even been on Instagram much the past couple of weeks. I haven’t wanted many orders under the circumstances.

Church goals – Six thrift sales this year, Work on baptism records and historical info, work on getting our church info out there for weddings, one historical themed event/fundraiser this year.

Every minute of my extra time went into this sale this past week and we did it! It was a huge success, packed with shoppers the entire 8 am to 3 pm and we made $661.

I am totally exhausted though so I will be glad for the time away from it for a bit. Next sale is in April.

Pay off one of the two credit cards.

No more progress on the credit cards this month but read the full post here: https://marymargaretripley.com/2024/01/19/not-impressed-with-our-debt-january-2024/

That’s it this time! How are you doing with your goals? – MM

P.s. if you would like to check out my Etsy shop here is the link https://redmillvintageandnew.etsy.com