1 / Give Maggie's room a refresh. Yep. The change isn't dramatic, but that's okay with me because I was pretty happy with the starting point. I finished up the painting just this morning. (Hugs to Rachel for taking over playdate parenting duties so I could get that last bit done!) Maggie's pretty(!) bed is now up and she has a fresh gallery wall. Plus - her closet is more organized. It's a win all around.
2 / Track grocery spending for the month of August. Done and the total was more than I would have anticipated. We are ending the month at $603.67. I'm guessing this is pretty typical - I just hadn't calculated it for a long time.
This included things like vitamins, sandwich bags and diapers. It did not include our restaurant meals, Sam's lunches at school or a couple small ($10ish) trips to Whole Foods that Brian paid for with his fun money.
I don't think the amount we spent is crazy, exactly - there are five of us to feed. Still, it was more than I expected.
Of course, months that we spend more in restaurants will lead to fewer grocery expenses and vice versa. Our restaurant expenses for the month were $129.22 - (again, excluding any restaurant food purchased with fun money). This brings the total food expenses for our family to $732.89.
I'm going to keep tracking this and see if I can do better in future months.
3 / Finalize a "40 before 40" list. Yes and I'm still pumped about it. Here is the full list.
4 / Documenting catch up (Project Life family pages and also kid book pages). Done. Finishing the pages of the kids' stuff was pretty quick. The family PL pages took longer - because I do two spreads per week and because I had almost twenty weeks to do. But, I got it done and now I can document in real time again. It feels pretty great to be be caught up.
5 / Digital clean up. This ended up as a sort of half-win. I did unsubscribe from a lot of the emails and deleted A LOT of photos. So there was progress, I just still have a ways to go. The image above shows what I would like my entire camera roll to look like. I would love to "keep" all of the images that show important moments, are "pretty" or have otherwise been used in our family scrapbook. I would like everything else to be deleted. Oh, but it's a process. I deleted about 5,000 photos, but still have several months to sort through.
This included things like vitamins, sandwich bags and diapers. It did not include our restaurant meals, Sam's lunches at school or a couple small ($10ish) trips to Whole Foods that Brian paid for with his fun money.
I don't think the amount we spent is crazy, exactly - there are five of us to feed. Still, it was more than I expected.
Of course, months that we spend more in restaurants will lead to fewer grocery expenses and vice versa. Our restaurant expenses for the month were $129.22 - (again, excluding any restaurant food purchased with fun money). This brings the total food expenses for our family to $732.89.
I'm going to keep tracking this and see if I can do better in future months.
3 / Finalize a "40 before 40" list. Yes and I'm still pumped about it. Here is the full list.
4 / Documenting catch up (Project Life family pages and also kid book pages). Done. Finishing the pages of the kids' stuff was pretty quick. The family PL pages took longer - because I do two spreads per week and because I had almost twenty weeks to do. But, I got it done and now I can document in real time again. It feels pretty great to be be caught up.
5 / Digital clean up. This ended up as a sort of half-win. I did unsubscribe from a lot of the emails and deleted A LOT of photos. So there was progress, I just still have a ways to go. The image above shows what I would like my entire camera roll to look like. I would love to "keep" all of the images that show important moments, are "pretty" or have otherwise been used in our family scrapbook. I would like everything else to be deleted. Oh, but it's a process. I deleted about 5,000 photos, but still have several months to sort through.
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