Here we are ready to start week three of our cozy homemaking goals already! I like this picture because it makes me think of us chatting while we take a brief break or run into each other while out taking care of something.
If you haven’t participated yet, this is really easy. First, I hope you have subscribed to my site so you have a free copy of The Cozy Life Library. It explains quite a bit about my philosophy of creating a cozy home of peace, understanding, and joy. Each Monday we choose three homemaking goals for the week beyond our regular responsibilities. We share them and come back to share how we did on the Friday Follow-up post. They can be tiny goals or big goals. We’re all in different places with our homes and responsibilities so there is no right or wrong way to do this. The only objective is to help us finish a few things each week and celebrate with each other.
If you need fresh inspiration, check out this post with my Free Creating Your Cozy Life Printable Planner. There are lots of ideas there. You can also check out the Prudent & Prepared Discussion Area for other ideas.
So my goals this week include:
Goal 1 – Select an updated life insurance policy. We’ve had life insurance for a long time, but we need to update our policies. We have put this off for months and months. This week we get it done.
Goal 2 – Find a mixer cover for my Kitchen Aid mixer. I either need to find an inexpensive one to buy on someplace like Etsy or find a super easy pattern I could try to sew myself at some point (not this week). My sewing skills are pretty basic, but I do have some pretty fabric that might work well so I’m kind of interested in finding a free pattern online.
Goal 3 – Spend one hour working through piles of recipes, printed ideas, etc. and begin organizing them. My recipe collection is really not up-to-date since my EoE completely changed our cooking and eating patterns. So I need to pitch a lot of things I printed off years ago that I will never try. Hopefully in the process I’ll find a few things David and Caroline might enjoy.
So those are my goals. I have a full week planned with other things so I tried to choose goals that were on the easier end of the spectrum.
What do you hope to accomplish this week by Friday? Please share in the comments!
Categories: Homemaking
Goal 1: Get going again on sanding cabinet doors and getting them ready for refinishing, and at least finish the one that I’m in the middle of now. I ran out of energy and interest a few weeks ago.
Goal 2: Dispose of the dead rabbit in the back yard.
Goal 3: Cut and sew cloth diapers until I run out of flannel again.
Those sound like great goals!
Are you painting or staining the cabinet doors?
I just ordered my groceries for Thanksgiving. I intend to take time tomorrow and rake up some leaves.
Marilyn
We finally got out leaves up this weekend which was really late around here. I hope you were able to get yours done too!
Sallie
I got one goal met last week (cleaning my ceiling fans) so am carrying over the other two:
1. Painting the table (which will need to be a Saturday goal )
2. Cleaning out the baking cupboard
And adding a third:
3. Setting up a time for updating our will. Things like setting up appointments seem to be my weakness. Sometimes, I am much better at getting practical things done. I’m not sure why I drag my heels around making appointments. I was inspired by your goal to update your insurance policy.
Thanks Sallie!
Hi Erin!
Those are all great goals. That is a reminder to me that we should take another look at our will that was written when Caroline was a baby.
I find I drag my feet about big things because I dread making a decision that could have such big implications. So I procrastinate like any good perfectionist. LOL!
Sallie