The Year is coming to an end

 

I’m having problems believing that the year is coming to an end already.  Not sure what happened, I remember my mother telling me that time would move faster as I got older but at the time I didn’t believe her.  Lesson learned.

I have been thinking the last 2 days about the upcoming year and what I want to accomplish.  Last year my goals got derailed and I didn’t realize any of them except my reading goal for the year which I exceeded.  Guess I spent too much time waiting.

So far I have 7 goals some of which will be easy and others may not be.

1 to get to the gym 3 times a week

2 to increase my water to 8 full glasses every day

3 to lose 30lbs

4 to write more

5 to read 70 books

6 to finish half of my WIPs

7 to make more of Christmas gifts for next year

Sunday morning

It been a busy month or so here.  Hockey tryouts are finally over, Mac made the Millwoods Raiders again this year.  He is not 100% happy about it but likes his teammates and should have a good year.

Megan has started her second year of Guides, she is having fun and will be doing more camps this year.  Thursday night we start cookie selling.  Melissa has moved up to Brownies this year.  she will have fun it is the same leaders that she had for Sparks.  I have been recruited to join the unit as a new Sparks leader.  Right now it is lots of paper work and forms…

Jamie is almost finished the deck.  I think that it is going to look great.

  I will post more pictures when it is done.

I have to work today, I took Friday off because I was sic and today is my deadline for this 1 job.  Tomorrow my partner and I have have 1 clean to do and then I have some other work to get done.

so I will be leaving the house in a bit to go get it done then coming home and cleaning up the main floor of the house.  I’m thinking of making these later today.  I feel the urge to bake again..

Woman with Bouquet

Started my Woman with Bouquet Cross stitch again.  Made a major count mistake while trying to watch TV instead of paying attention.  Oops.  Oh well, a little floss and I’m back.  I want to get this done by Christmas so that I have it hanging in my living room.

Strawberry Pizza Pie

Yesterday I took the time to make a new dessert for Jamie to take to a potluck lunch at work.  I will be making it again for us at home.  I found the recipe on one of my favourite food blogs Mommy Kitchen.

 

I think it turned out pretty good and nothing came home so his co-workers must have enjoyed it.

Of course I couldn’t follow the recipe exactly because what fun would that  be.  Actually it was because I left it to the last minute and couldn’t find any Sugar Cookie dough in the premade section.  So I substituted it with Milk Chocolate chip cookie dough and I also used Smuckers Jam instead of Strawberry Gel.

This got me to thinking that until my 3rd child was born I would not have made this using a mix.  Now I find myself often reaching for pre-made or mixes instead of starting from scratch.

But my new motto is if it tastes good and and saves time why not.

Woman with Bouquet

This morning I pulled out one of my WIP that I started about 4 months ago.  I want to get this one finished by Christmas.

I'm working on page 7 of 14.

Swap Bot Cross Stitch Mini that I did

This went a to girl on swap bot.

Melissa’s Bracelet

Melissa was so happy in June when i took the time 10 minutes to make her a stretchy bracelet, she wore it for days until she broke it trying it on the dog