1 down, 23 to go...

No - not pounds. Items on my "project list" that I wanted to accomplish while I was off work... It's all going a heck of a lot slower than I ever really anticipated. Let's face it. It hasn't gone at all until just recently. I guess 7 months is when it finally got easier for me. That's not so bad right? (Yes, I can hear the snickers from the peanut gallery - for your information ladies, you are all like supermoms, making exclusively homemade baby food, baking pies and cakes from scratch, entertaining large groups of party goers while your babe(s) sleep soundly upstairs and you stress not one little bit. That's great for you ... but I am not that talented!!) Okay, rambling tangent over.

So I decided to put my list of 'to do's here. I figured that it would accomplish a few things. Namely, 1) helping to get rid of some of the clutter in my scatterbrain and 2) I've always been more motivated when I publicly announce a goal.

1. Paint and hang the letters for Maddie's room
2. Build toy box/organizer in Maddie's closet
3. Buy or build bookshelf for Maddie's room
   
4. Organize photos cronologically, add notes and put into albums
5. Re-organize spare room to make more 'guest-friendly' - get rid of second dresser
6. Take boxes of old stuff to goodwill
7. Post and sell not-so-old stuff on kijiji
8. Organize underneath stairs in basement - storage area
9. Repaint bedframe in spare room
10. Repaint dining room chairs
11. Re-uphoster dining room chairs
12. Refinish cradle in cherry stain for Maddie's room
13. Refinish bedside table in cherry stain for Maddie's room
14. Build workbench and shelving in garage
15. Clean out and organize garage - move tools, Christmas boxes etc. out to garage
16. Touch up paint on walls in house
17. Put up wall hangings
18. Put up knife rack in kitchen
19. Choose and print photos for empty frames
20. Hang collage of frames over sofa
21. Put up under the cupboard cd player/radio
22. Get Guinness posters professionally mounted
23. Unpack the rest of the moving boxes in basement
24. Plant herbs in large wooden planter in backyard

Well, at least it will be fun to come back to this list every once in a while and scratch off another item. Hopefully I can get through the majority of it before September. That's only 3 months away...

xxoo.S