I'm sure I won't accomplish every single thing on this list, but here are some hopes I have, anyway, for the month of October.
* Annual family photos. This one is already on the calendar, but I'm listing it first in case any of you have forgotten to schedule pictures! Ryan and I got engaged in the fall back in 2012, so we had fall engagement photos taken. We've made it a tradition to get new pictures every fall, and we use those for our Christmas cards, too. We'll hope for a decent-to-good weather day on the day of our appointment!
* Find clothes/ideas for said photos. Having the appointment is only half the battle. We need to figure out our clothing scheme for this year and come up with some creative photo ideas. We have a fantastic photographer who always comes to every shoot extremely well-prepared, but I have a little theme idea to throw in the mix this year, so I need to at least met her halfway!
* Organize our bedroom. As you know, we spent the month of September doing a major cleanout of our office. I started it, but Ryan jumped on board and over the last week, he has worked so very hard to go through boxes and piles, throw things away, organize paperwork, and make sure the office looks and stays in great shape. Now we need to take all that cleaning and organization energy and move it into another room! We've declared the bedroom to be the next room to tackle. It's really not in horrible shape - until you start opening drawers. Eek!
* Finish the book of Luke. For my devotions this year, I'm reading very slowly through the Gospels. I counted out my remaining sections in Luke and I should finish the book in October, which will bring me to the very last Gospel! I'm excited for that! (I also need to order my commentary to read along with the book of John. Yes, I just used my blog as a personal sticky note to remind me to do that.)
* Continue my 21 Day Fix workouts. You might remember that about 3 years ago, I did the 21 Day Fix to lose weight. Though we have tried to keep up the eating principles of the Fix, I can't do the workouts every single day of the year. Eventually my body gets used to them and they stop working. So I'll take breaks and come back to them periodically. I just finished up my second week of using them again, and I think I have a few more weeks of doing that series every day before I need to switch up again.
* Plan out all the Christmas ornaments I need to make. I'm adding two trees to our house this year, and for at least one of them, I plan to make all the ornaments. The tree I know I'm DIY'ing will be our office tree, so I want to make ornaments from book pages. I don't think it will be hard to do, but I need to just carve out the time to do it. November is crazy crazy busy, so I need to get this at least planned, if not underway, in October.
* Go on a fun fall outing with Ryan. We have our potential days set aside (since we don't have many free ones to choose from) but we haven't yet figured out what we plan to do. Hiking is at the top of the list!
And of course, there are all the regular things we have on the calendar: leading small group, getting the women's ministry ready for our big fall event, finishing up my participation in women's Bible study, keeping up with life. And maybe somewhere in there: sleeping?
3 comments:
Anne!!!! I am so so so glad you left me this comment! I absolutely, 100% forgot that he wrote that series of books, though I did know about them, because he finished it up when I worked at the station, and Lynne interviewed him about the last one. (She is a DIEHARD Michael Card fan. Kind of like I am with David Phelps.) If I had thought of it, I probably would have used that series all year rather than switching among four authors. But I will absolutely buy that for John and then probably go back and get the rest of them. THANK YOU!!!!!!!
I'm working on 80 Day Obsession - you've got this!
Tamar - You are amazing!!!! If you can do 80! I can do 21! (Or 42.)
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