Projects!

We have decided to make 2010 the year of improvements. I know we are a month behind on making new year's resolutions, but we have received the inspiration and motivation we need to make some changes around here.

First! We were inspired by a story we saw on the news about a lady who plans her families meals for a year.s That way she know exactly what is coming and can prepare for it. She knows exactly how to shop the sales at the grocery store because she knows the exact amounts of everything she needs. We are going to try it out. We wrote down the meals that everyone likes and side dishes to go with most of them. We will put them in order and rotate through. I am gathering all the recipes for these meals and putting them all in one place so when it is time to cook I have everything in one place!! I am also going through all the food magazine we have to find some additional recipes and copying them into my new recipe notebook. I am pretty excited about this new plan! Figuring out what to have is half the battle, so we're already partial winners in that sense!


Second! Being inspired by a Martha Stewart magazine to try a new project, I have completed my first scarf. Needle felting is a lot of fun!! I can't wait to make another scarf for me (Jason claimed this one) and one for Paisley. I'm really excited to think of other fun needle felting projects I can do!

Third! Our fifth Sunday lesson was all about the family finance section of providentliving.org. We have decided to crack down and make a better attempt at budgeting. Our current budget is sad and needs a makeover. This also relates to our first project of planning our meals ahead of time.
We are really excited to crunch some numbers and figure out a better system!

Fourth! Fixing things!! Our water softener hasn't work in about 2 years (shocking it lasted that long, can you tell how old this thing is?? hint: older than me!)) The water here is HARD!!! We all are very dried out thanks to our hard water. We were preparing ourselves to have to buy a new one, but the wonderful repair man came today and was able to fix it!! That really made our budget happy! We look forward to losing the itchy feeling that came from our super hard water.

There are a few other projects we have going on and perhaps they will be a different post. We look forward to improving ourselves and our household. It feel refreshing to make improvements!! We know we are behind but welcome 2010 we can't wait for more of you to come!!