Allison Claridge - 101 things in 1001 days

169 Days to Go - 36 things accomplished!!

2010-09-19T22:21:00.000-07:00

Woo hoo!! I've checked off more than a third of my list!! That was my more realistic hope after having been at the list for a bit. And there it is! There is yet time to accomplish much, and I will keep at it. And I do think I will still do a list again when this is over.

I re-read my posts tonight. It was interesting to me the things that I repeated over and over and over. (Who on earth would follow this? How boring!)

Getting out of debt was huge in the beginning. And one of our greatest accomplishments. I had the same realizations over and over: that I perhaps reached too far with some goals; that I was ignoring my reading lists in favor of other reading material; that I learned to spend time with my children on a more individual basis; that my scripture study brought GREAT joy when I was consistent.

Good lessons. I am sure I have many, many more to learn. And if this is a means to learning those lessons, I am grateful for the journey.

276 days left

2010-06-04T22:52:00.000-07:00

I have 30 things accomplished, when I check off my dates with my kids. I KNOW I've had more one on one time with them than I ever recorded. But putting it down on my list really made me focus on that, and that has been awesome.

There's still 71 things that AREN'T crossed off my list. And there's a lot of time left. Am I giving up? Nah. But I do keep looking at things in different ways. Growing, changing, deciding differently where the focus is...

I have discovered that I don't like "working the list" anymore. Revelatory for me. Working the list means I ignore the life.

Never ignore the life.

340 days and counting...

2010-04-01T23:07:00.000-07:00

I have 26 things completed now out of the original 101. Really, it looks like I haven't accomplished very much. But there are always those HUGE things I set in mini-lists of themselves, like reading so many books or having 20 dates with each of my children... and those are yet in the works.

I'm pretty impressed that I finished two of my afghans on the list -- but haven't completed any of the movie things I set! Weird! Except that just means I'm watching OTHER stuff, because I always watch while I crochet, unless of course we are traveling. (I got a lot done on Colie's when we went to San Diego.)

384 left

2010-02-16T21:44:00.000-08:00

The one-year-left mark is fast approaching.

I'm still doing Autofocus (although Mark calls it something else now, but I don't remember what, and I still like Autofocus) but I have finally put some of my 101 things on THAT list. Wow! It's on my mind more and I am sure that I will see more get accomplished than I was seeing before.

I have also put three Newbery books on my nightstand. :-)

Day 605 - 396 left to go

2010-02-04T22:16:00.000-08:00

23 things accomplished. And all the "dates" and temple trips are well on their way and will most likely get accomplished. That's six more. I think if I get to one third of the list completed, that will be great!

I did learn how outrageous I was with the book reading and the afghans. Especially since I can't do those at the same time! I could really beef up my movie-list watching and sail through those afghans, though. But I've been on a reading kick, just not the Old Testament or books from the Newbery or Caldecott lists! Halfway through the Book of Mormon for 2010 and reading lots of great biographies and killer fluff stuff. (I have read the Twilight series W-A-A-A-Y too many times.) I put Newbery and Caldecott on the list so I would grab GOOD stuff... but these WERE good, because I enjoyed them so much!!

Day 573

2010-01-03T21:05:00.000-08:00

Less than half to go, but still much time.

I have 20 things crossed off my list, and still making progress on many of the others. We didn't make it to the temple last month at all, which is really sad. I'm hardly reading anything right now and I'd really like to change that. Although, I am reading my scriptures a great deal more than I used to. I am particularly reading the Book of Mormon right now, but we just started the Old Testament again in Sunday School, so hopefully that will help me finally get past Kings.

I have other accomplishments that never made it to the list in the first place... that's a good realization. FLY things, relationships with my kiddos. We watch movies a lot less and play games a lot more. I am exercising tons more these days, even though I am not seeing much weight come off (I need to combine my exercise with some serious brownie-depriving tactics). My desk is clean more often than it is piled. I'm a lot more focused in my calling than I used to be.

Good realizations.

I'm going to start counting DOWN the days, like on my little counter on the home page. Time's a tickin'...

Day 538, 463 to go

2009-11-29T15:52:00.000-08:00

I have 20 things checked off my list! How exciting!
I do think, at this point, that I'm really happy with what I've accomplished so far. There are still a few things that I can "knock off" in a single day, albeit a very focused single day. My dates with the children are going well -- and it's a bit of an eye-opener how I view the different activities with them.

I take Tanner to park more often than I used to. So I don't see that as a "date" -- it's just what happens. What qualifies as a date with him has moved up a notch since I am home most afternoons with him after school. However, Tasmin is RARELY around anymore, so a late-night movie totally qualifies. I don't do enough with my boys. Good things to see and notice from this challenge.

Matt and I upped our commitment to the temple since the children are older and babysitting isn't such a difficult thing. We go twice a month most months now. LOVE THAT! It also means we'll FINISH our 36 pretty easily with lots of time leftover, when what I committed to was once a month for the approximately three years that this challenge takes. Cool.

The reading lists just aren't happening. Neither are the classic movies or the DVDs on the prophets. There's still time, but I see that they aren't "important" enough to me to really motivate me to do them. Many other things on my list jump out at me as "I REALLY want to get that done!"

There are also things on my list, the travel things, that were impossible to do before we paid off our consumer debt. I don't think I can squeeze them all in with a little over a year left now. But there's not much better than knowing we CAN, now that the debt is paid off.

I wish I'd made different goals on some things: the losing 30 pounds continues to fluctuate and I keep feeling like "Oh, I'm back where I started" and I get completely disgruntled. I know goals are supposed to be quantifiable, but I think next time I'll do something like "Eat healthy 5 days out of the week" or "Walk 30 minutes 3 times a week." And that "Go to the gym 6 times in one week"?? That was when we HAD a gym membership and I was walking 2 miles on weekdays and 8 miles on Saturdays. I have a lot of building back up to do...

All in all, I'm pretty happy with my progress. And yes, I will totally make another list when this one is over.

Hey 16!

2009-09-21T23:32:00.000-07:00

I have 16 things totally done on my list. My temple sessions are well on the way, and most of my kid-dates are doing pretty good. I'm not reading enough (for list purposes anyway) and I need to get my crocheting done!! I have big doubts I'll ever get that sampler done for Tanner...

Day 469

2009-09-21T23:13:00.000-07:00

I don't have too many posts because I just keep going back to update the original list. But oh, my, do I get to update a lot of things tonight! I have been getting so much done, one little baby step at a time. And too, I'm seeing a lot of things getting done kind of amazingly, without me really planning on getting it done... Like tonight, I cleaned out the birthday box, finally. It was birthday night and we are stone broke (because we only have TWO more payments to make to WIPE OUT our credit card debt!!) and I needed four presents for my wonderful nieces and nephews. To the birthday box, Batman!

Day 415

2009-07-29T23:03:00.000-07:00

I've yet to decide if I should just re-post my list or enter a dated post.... I seem to be doing both. So some of the progress I've made doesn't ever get its own post, I just update the progress right on my original list.

Ahh.... summer means I did too get to have a few dates with my children. Never as many as I would have liked, but at least I DID spend some time with them. Maggie and I got more time than I counted as dates... doing stuff at home that wasn't necessarily for very long or just the two of us. For example, I bought little cash register money at the dollar store the other night and she and Tanner set up stores in the house (Tanner stole food from EVERYWHERE) and then I came "shopping" as various different characters in their stores. That was so much fun, and Maggie loved the attention and time we spent... but... NOT a date.

This particular goal has really made me aware of spending more time with my children. So many things don't classify as "dates" but if this has made me DO more with them, what a great goal that has been!!

Day 406

2009-07-20T18:08:00.000-07:00

Wow. When we get to day 500 it will be the half-way point! I seriously need to get busier! Although, I must say, I was pretty darned impressed today with how many things I AM making progress on.

I'm laying in bed sick today and it was so nice to see things moving along anyway! Cool!

Day 387

2009-07-01T20:33:00.000-07:00

I got to cross off something else today. I "cloud-watched" with Maggie and Tanner, but it's monsoon season so it was this amazing lightning show. We are broke, broke, broke this summer, so we scrounged through the house for coins and came up with enough for dollar sundaes for each of us (Taylor too!) from McDonalds. The air was beautiful, the sky was amazing, and the sundaes were oh-so good!

I have been using Mark Forster's AutoFocus System (it's free; I have to share) and it has been truly wonderful for me. (Well, and I got on the RIGHT depression medication and that has made a TREMENDOUS difference in my life!) So I feel like things are moving along just swimmingly, now!

I thought I would be really shocked when I checked in tonight to see how many days I had left, because I knew I had passed the one year mark. I thought I would go into panic-mode because there is so much left to do! But again, the way I set up my list to begin with, many things won't get checked off in the beginning, but a WHOLE BUNCH will get checked off near the end because they are items like "watch 10 movies" or "read 20 books" and I AM making progress on those goals. Go ME!!

Now, if only I had put "read or listen to Twilight series 87 times" on my list -- I could get that accomplished so easily!

ONE YEAR DOWN

2009-06-11T23:10:00.000-07:00

I can't quite believe it's already a year. So much seems to get in the way of grand intentions. What a lovely life lesson to see that you don't just chuck it all because something got in the way... you step back, take a look and where you've been and where you want to go, and you re-commit and dig into life again.

Cool.

So I'm digging in...

I've battled with depression for years now, and saw myself falling down a hole since finally deciding to go the medication route. I tried two different medicines since last December, both with nasty side effects that left me just reeling. This latest, only a week into it, has left me so grateful for modern medicine! I feel like a brand new person! Like the curtains have been opened up to a beautiful spring day -- and they were some seriously heavy, drab curtains, let me tell you!

So... re-assessing, re-committing. It is GOOD to be alive! I LOVE waking up happy.

JOY!

SUCCESS!

2009-04-04T18:50:00.000-07:00

I have no idea how many days I have left, and I'm not even checking in because I've completed something.

But I have finally hit $5.00 earnings on Helium! How silly that I'm so excited about that, but there it is - I am. I wrote fourteen articles in rapid sequence last year and have done NOTHING with my writing since then. And it hit the $5.00 mark. I set a goal to earn $100 from Helium before my 1001 days are up... so I definitely need to get writing again. And I can see the best "sellers" are my articles on homeschooling. Oh how I loved homeschooling. If the world keeps going the way it is, we'll probably be back to it!!

Day 294

2009-03-30T11:38:00.000-07:00

Another item got crossed off so there are 9 things done and 92 left to do. But I am making progress on some of those 92 things that have lots to do on them. For instance, I've had dates with Maggie and Tanner, I've attended the temple and I've made time to work on the afghans and watch the movies on my list.

I need to up my focus on dates with older children. Avery doesn't have ANY! I've been to his band concerts and stuff, but we haven't done anything special together before or after. I also need to quit reading (okay, maybe hurry up and finish) the Twilight series for the second time (sheepish grin) and get on with my reading list.

I have re-committed myself to my personal scripture study (why do I always seem to have to do that? Will I ever get on a pattern that I stick with?), so hopefully that will move forward again as well.

I seem to have been a little side-tracked by discovering some new list ideas like Getting Things Done and AutoFocus. Instead of letting them be incorporated in my 101/1001, I let them sidetrack me completely. My darling husband says I need to put ALL these things that I love to work with (the above lists, FlyLady, etc.) and combine into my OWN thing -- and then publish that! That would be way cool!

Day 264

2009-02-28T00:01:00.001-08:00

I think that's the right number day. I may have to go back and edit it...

Just got back from the temple with Mel and my dearest friend, Liz. Man, we share our trials and challenges with each other and gripe about the things we don't like about life, and share joy about what we do like -- and I just adore being with her. I can sit in a room in complete silence just next to her and I feel it was time well spent. There is something about that woman's spirit that I just love being around. She's amazing.

8 down, 93 to go?!?!

2009-02-13T12:21:00.001-08:00

I thought I'd be much farther along... Time to re-group and re-commit. I swear it's all about the crashed PDA.

Day 249 and way too long between posts

2009-02-13T11:51:00.001-08:00

An update long overdue...

#1 - Still reading scriptures, but mostly the Book of Mormon. Need to get back to reading the Bible as well, but have enjoyed my time. Getting a really good personal scripture study program going around the whole day. Listening to General Conference talks almost every day (as suggested by our leaders) and reading scriptures and Jesus the Christ every night. I just need to add Preach My Gospel and writing in my journal and I will feel extremely well-accomplished!!

#3 - Had an opportunity to go, but it fell through at the last minute. But it caused me to connect with about five other friends who want to hike Sabino, so I should be able to make that happen soon!

#4 - Up to 8 miles in one morning. Just over 2 hours... Wonderful! So excited I can go so far. A BIT sore, but not zapped-the-whole-day.

#6 - Up to 4.52 and they have LOTS more ways to earn now. Will explore that as soon as I get my new PDA toy up and rolling... (old one crashed and burned and I am calendar-less and therefore completely inept at getting ANYTHING done.)

#16 - Mission accomplished!! Went to Florida and Georgia over Christmas break. What a wonderful memory...

#19 - Making friends with a lady who owns Mesquite Nursery. Extremely knowledgeable and totally willing to offer advice and help! (They advertise a "salad bowl garden" in one of those big pots on your porch. Cool!)

#22 - Under the $8000 mark and going!

#25 - Levi's is half-way done and
#26 - I have the pattern picked out for Nicole

#28 - Hit the "Lost 22 pounds" mark on the scale a couple of weeks ago, but that was before Patti brought seven layer cookies in to work to "share". I think I ate the whole pan...

#31 - Floor is all finished. The trim still needs to be finished, but I can't make Matt do it. He's working two jobs right now as it is. He can finish it when he can, but I'm marking this one DONE!

#32 - My own laptop is getting combined with fixing my PDA that crashed. Matt and I are getting ACERS, the teeniest little laptop. SO adorable and I just can't wait!

#35 - Went to DisneyWorld with Grandma and Grandpa Claridge over Christmas break. We did every free thing you can do over there. It was so much fun. Of course, I wish I could take the kids to REALLY do Disney, but things being what they are, this will have to suffice.

#36 - And while we were there we sat on the beach in the freezing cold and watched the fireworks!!

#82 - Found a roller rink still exists in Tucson and Maggie wants us to go for a date! Two birds...

#85 - Had plans to read TODAY at Love of Reading week in Maggie's class, but Tanner came down with pink eye. Now it will have to wait until next year... :-(

#89 - TA-DAH!! Couldn't come up with a reason to be keeping them, so they went in the recycle bin about two weeks ago! Woo-hoo!!! Can I just say how good THAT felt?!?! Filled up the whole BOX!

#93 - Temple sessions
I'm going to have to do some serious calendar searching. Because my record of November until now is in my broken PDA. This is becoming more tragic than I realized at first...

Okay - now I have to go to the original post and see how many are actually accomplished. Because some actually got DONE!

Getting there...

2008-11-25T19:12:00.000-08:00

November 25, 2008

Watched "Swing Time" last night with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Ahhhh....

Didn't work on my crochet projects on my list because I found a pattern for reusable grocery bags that you crochet. They are the beach-bag type that smoosh down into a very teeny space and then s-t-r-e-t-c-h out to a larger size when they are full of stuff. Very cool!

Think I'm going to do the same thing tonight...

Day 156

2008-11-12T22:15:00.000-08:00

I only have three things completely crossed off my list. Wow. I do realize that several things are going to roll off there once the house is done from the flood. And many more will get crossed off at the very end because I DESIGNED it that way -- like the dates with my kids and temple attendance.

But I'm pretty pleased with the progress I am making, for the most part.

I'm not getting anywhere on my reading lists (except for the Bible. That's happening.) I have recently become enamored of biographies. I read Julie Andrews "Home" (which was wonderful) and am currently reading Audrey Hepburn's. (I just KNEW she was dubbed for My Fair Lady!!)

Time ticking on...

2008-11-04T20:57:00.001-08:00

And I'm not an Obama fan so tonight is just as sad as can be for me. Working on continuing to make my home a little haven from the bad, bad world...

#1 - Finished Ruth October 28th, almost through with Samuel.

#4 - Haven't been walking at all, but the church walk-a-thon is coming up soon.

#5 - Here's a completely random thought on my ballet class. I was walking from the service station to my office a few days ago and had a sudden, weird impulse to do a front walkover! Of course, I didn't do it. I was in the middle of a parking lot (asphalt, hello!) and there's no way I could do one in this old body without falling flat on my head, but there was a definite impulse there. How bizarre is that?!

#16 - Hey! I forgot this was ON my list! We are going to Georgia for Christmas!! I will get to check this off December 19th when we leave!! Woo-hoo!

#22 - Under the $10,000 mark at last!! (Man, I hate admitting that, but I'm sure others are worse of than me, just as others are SAVING instead of paying down debt! I'm just not going to reveal where we started from!!)

#25 - Levi's afghan: pulled it out to work on while waiting for District Choir to start and about humiliated the heck out of my oldest daughter. "Mo-om! You're crocheting in public?!"

#35 - Oh, this is too good to be true! Another one! We are going from Georgia to Florida to hit Disneyworld at Christmastime!

#41 - "Thousands Cheer" is my first Garland flick to check off my list. She only did one number in it, it was really a Gene Kelley film. Mm mm mm.

#75 - Man, I walked the whole neighborhood in support of Prop 102. I met some great neighbors and some scary ones. Something more about that safe haven...Yep, gonna count this one done.

#83 - Talked to Missy about using hers! (DDR)

#85 - Told Ms Legarra to put me down for Love of Reading Week in February. (gotta choose a great book!)

#97 - Clothes shopping. That was great on so many levels. She got something she needed, something she wanted, and something totally just to splurge. What fun! I REALLY need to take out my son. He doesn't have any dates on the list and he needs some mom-attention BAD.

Day 140

2008-10-27T23:31:00.000-07:00

I think I should have so many things crossed off... but the whole point was to be making progress, and I am doing that. That's a great feeling.

Still waiting for insurance money to do a lot of the finishing touches on the house, like the trim, and I refuse to check it off until it's really done!

I think I'm going to end up seeing a lot of things checked off in rapid succession, kind of like when you pay off your credit cards and you roll over the payments to the next one as each one gets paid off. When you start that plan, the progress seems kinda slow, but once the snowball gets rolling, all of a sudden three or four get paid off in the same few months. That's what my checklist is going to be like.

I started watching "Thousands Cheer" tonight with Kathryn Grayson and Gene Kelley. LOVE IT! Took great courage and turned it off about one hour into it so I could finish some things that have been nagging at me. And now I'm here checking in, I already read my scriptures today, and then I am going to go to bed!

Day 119

2008-10-06T21:43:00.000-07:00

Wow. I put my first Newbery book on the list and the house is coming along just LOVERLY!! Just wanted to update THE LIST tonight and will add more soon...

Day 99 - Wow, really?

2008-09-16T22:17:00.000-07:00

Life got thrown for a loop on August 20, 2008. Nothing earth-shattering, really. A water hose burst on the washing machine and we woke up to 1 1/2 inches of water in the house. Looking back, the whole morning was quite comical, but I remember DH and I crying and saying "Oh, God!" a lot. I had the conversation with my little four-year-old that we were NOT taking the Lord's name in vain, but were truly calling on Him for help and comfort! It was a last straw kind of a day.

Lots of friends and family came to our rescue, though. The flooring is complete now except for the closet, bathrooms and laundry room and this weekend we will take our first break since it happened. My walks with Charlotte got put on hold, but we are going to go on Saturday. My legs have been getting their own new kind of work out because Matt and I are laying the flooring ourselves, but I will be interested to see what happens since I haven't been walking in about a month.

On to the report -
#1 - Deuteronomy got finished somewhere around the time of the flood (that just sounds funny, now, doesn't it?) and I am almost finished with Joshua.

#23 - Tasmin's afghan got packed up for the duration of the flood fixing, but (#25) I started Levi's because it's large squares that can go with me. His afghan is 16 huge squares and I've finished the first one.

#29 - Here's where the flood really comes into play... Remodeling the kids' bathroom is going to go hand in hand with this. We are just waiting on the insurance check. We are going to rip out the tub and fix the plumbing, put in a new toilet and new sink. We're just going to leave the game cupboard, but I do wish we had somewhere else for the games... Hmmmm......

#30 - Painting the house will also happen once the insurance check arrives. Humph. I see a pattern here...

#31 - The main room, dining room (that used to be an office, but we LIKE having a dining room again), and master bedroom and kitchen are all re-floored in Allure hickory vinyl flooring. LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT! I have bought out three different Home Depot locations here and actually made a sale for one store. (I should SO get commission!) When we finish the closet, bathrooms and laundry, I will get to count this DONE!! Woo-hoo!!

#38 - Wood blinds - waiting for insurance check, yaddah, yaddah....

#43 - 100 things to declutter? Yeah, that'll happen next week when we start unpacking everything that got boxed up. Amazing how this flood thing is ramping up my list thing!

#55 - Patti promised when we were all done with our remodel that they would come to dinner to ooh and aahh over our work!

Okay, so it's day 99 and I have 6 things that are going to be FINISHED in pretty short order here. I think I had two done before and then once THIS work is done, I will tackle a few of my "do it in a day" items so I can see some more progress.

I see that someone is following my blog. That is so flippin' exciting!! I wonder how you do that? I'll have to look into that another session, because the bed is totally calling my name.

oh!! I have to say - we finally bought a new couch, too. I have NEVER had a new couch in my almost 20 years of marriage. We have always had second-hand couches from estate sales or friends. It is enormous and fluffy and altogether wonderful.

I need to learn how to insert pictures.

Completely happy with my progress (tonight, anyway!)

Day 63

2008-08-11T20:09:00.000-07:00

Good thing I didn't make posting daily something I wanted to accomplish!!

#4 - River Walk
Charlotte and I walked 6.6 miles along the Rillito on Saturday! During that last mile, we truly questioned our sanity, but we weren't sore Sunday morning and that made us feel great! It was over 14,000 steps and almost 500 calories on my little pedometer... FABULOUS!

#17 - Recipes
Oh dear. I have inherited another print-out book from the Internet. Going backwards...

#23 - Tasmin's afghan
Coming along nicely! Have to keep buying yarn which is a good sign...

#27 - MY afghan
Wow! Taylor actually pulled this tub out of the storage shed for me and I worked on it last week! Tasmin's is too big for me to take on car trips, so I needed a project when Matt and I went to the Diamondback's game. Taylor remembered the tub was marked "Mom's afghan" and said, "Why don't you work on that? You can't be that far along on it that IT'S too big yet!" Nice. Thanks, Son.

#76/#77 - Caldecott/Newbery
Zowie, I think I better get reading on a regular basis. I haven't gotten anywhere with these reading goals! That WAS part of the point, to get me to read in my "spare" time instead of playing the mindless games I get after my kids for...

#88 - Journals
I work on this occasionally. I have 15 minutes planned in my dell on random nights.

#96 - Avery
Asked him today what he'd like to do with me. He could only come up with going to the movies and eating at a bazillion different restaurants. Gonna have to save for those...

Hmph. I don't seem to be getting much crossed off. Snippets of progress. Need to ramp things up a bit. Have to come up with a plan...

Day 36

2008-07-15T20:40:00.000-07:00

#89 - Pulled out the huge pink notebook I've kept for over 10 years with my college papers in it. Threw out most of it, into the recycle bin. I did keep my work from my Personal History class, because that's my journal! I also kept work from my poetry classes and a couple of my imitation papers from another writing course just because that was one of my favorite classes and I love the work I produced there.

There is still a box to go through, but I know that box doesn't contain JUST college stuff. It also has my drafts of stories I've written. It will be a challenge to stay focused and go through the college stuff, but along with my work on Helium (#6), maybe it will be a new starting point as well.

#42 - Think I will now go compose my list of 10 movies from Turner Classic channel website...

Day 35

2008-07-14T23:32:00.000-07:00

#1 - Well into Numbers. Missing reading the Book of Mormon. Think I'll have to make more time in my day so I can read both the Book of Mormon and the Old Testament.

#6 - Helium added another reward thing. Not at a place right now where I think, hey I'll write an article every day! But maybe I can do one a week...

#22 - This one doesn't feel like it counts because we're paying down that debt on a huge automatic payment every month. But that grand total goes down every month!!

#23 - Finally got more yarn so I can work on Tasmin's afghan again. And that means movies!

#49 - Family Favorites cookbook. Thinking about it must count. I think about it every night at 6 o'clock...

#96 - Avery is sad I haven't started on his date list yet. I'll ask him tomorrow for some ideas of what we should do together. It would be super easy if we had money. Doing in on the frugal side will take some creativity.

*****

I am waiting for banana bread to be done in the oven. I LOVE LOVE LOVE my new mixer that Matt won for me at a silent auction. Best $4 he ever spent on me. Can't wait to collect the ingredients for the Ezekiel bread, but I must say Matt's invention of chile cheddar focaccia is absolutely to die for!!

It's interesting... I think about this list all the time. My thoughts go back and forth. Did I dream too big? Did I plan too much? Was I realistic at all? And then I switch and think, heck yeah I can do this! And I'm just totally enjoying this journey...

Day 28

2008-07-07T22:01:00.000-07:00

Boy, it would be nice if I'd check in more often...

#1: Still reading every single day, which makes me really happy. In the middle of Numbers.

#4: Missing my friend Charlotte who usually does long walks with me every Saturday. We haven't gone together for the last two weeks. I went with Tanner and Maggie - but let's face it, that was NOT a work out! Went last week all by myself and that was absolute bliss! De Azevedo in the nano, a beautiful early morning, a new section of the River Walk... oh yeah! Like that!

#15: Pulled out Tanner's sampler, but only because I need to buy yarn for Tasmin's afghan and am out of money for the time being. This may be the last x-stitch project I do without a magnifying glass... if I last that long!

#28: Oh yeah, baby! That scale says 160 this morning! That's a 20 pound mark! Go me!

#77: Caldecott - think I'll go read Hugo Cabret after I'm done here.

#79: Cube - can't quite get the middle layer anymore. Where is that answer book?

#93: July 5th was my 4th session and was a spur of the moment trip. Ahhhh....

#97: Took Maggie to work with me today (I SO love my boss) and took her to Extreme Pita for lunch. She's getting pretty good on the adding machine, but the enormous stack of mail today was a little daunting!

Ooh, out of order, but I'm going to work on my journal collection (#88) for 10 minutes before I go read.

Hope there is a Michael's coupon soon. I can't watch my movies without crochet yarn, and there's a lot of watching on my list. And I can't cross stitch and watch anymore; too hard on my eyes.

There's a Franklin Covey workshop in town in September. Seems to go so hand in hand with everything I'm working toward. THAT would be neat to attend. It's all about focusing on the things that are really important.

Day 18

2008-06-27T22:52:00.000-07:00

#1 - Continuing to read. In Leviticus. Plodding through.

#22 - Haven't reported on this one yet, but so excited for this.... We make regular monthly payments through a credit consumer counseling place, and I have to say, I love the company we are with. They are totally wonderful to work with and I'll even give them a plug -- American Credit Consumer Counseling. We did have to cut down our payment this month, which is a bummer. But this is the only month we'll have to do it. We are slated to have all our consumer debt gone by November of 2009, then the car is done after that, then the house, then the student loan. But the house and student loan don't fit in my 1001. But that will be very exciting to only have those two debts left!

#42 Taped Bandwagon and Silk Stockings tonight. When will I get to watch them?! It couldn't be tonight because the whole family went to the Y (#28)

#94/#97 Last night we had girls' night. Tasmin wanted to dye her hair brown, so while we waited for the color to set, I did Maggie's toenails and she did my fingernails. She's getting better at it! That was a fun night.

#76/77 Haven't started any books because I am still finished Mull's "The Candy Shop Wars" and thoroughly enjoying it. I really have a lot of reading on my list. Not too sure how practical that's going to be. Although, I do love that it will force me to read more. Other things will get weeded out of my day eventually!

I scared myself the other day reading some other lists that people have posted. Someone commented that you have to be finishing a goal every 10 days! Good grief! That means I'm already behind! At this moment, I only have one thing crossed off! However, I do realize that making progress on several goals every day means that, really, I could get several items crossed off on ONE day, when that happens. Right? For instance, I'm watching movies while I work on afghans. And there are several things on there that can be accomplished completely in one day -- like serve in a soup kitchen or read at Homer Davis or empty the birthday box. So I'm thinking this is still do-able.

Day 9

2008-06-19T22:38:00.000-07:00

#1 - Finished Exodus today. Lots of wonderful things I learned this time. I loved when Moses received his calling from the Lord. He kind of argued with God about it, and he kept getting put in his place about it. "Moses, you're doing this. Quit giving me excuses. I'll make it so." I feel like that in my calling sometimes too. And then at the end of the book when all the wise hearted people bring too many donations to the tabernacle and all the wise hearted people work on the building of it... Willing hearts... Wise men seek Him still. It is so wonderful to read and be touched by the Spirit. So much great learning.

Don't know my other numbers...
But I looked up Turner Classic Movies on the TV listings and I'll be able to hit my 10 classic movies easy from there.

We watched XMen III tonight as a family and I had grand intentions of working on Tasmin's afghan, but it didn't happen. It's only the second time I've seen it, so I watched.

Day 8

2008-06-18T22:20:00.000-07:00

#1 Almost finished with Exodus. Loving this. Love that I'm reading every day. I just can't go to bed without reading my scriptures. But today I couldn't get started without reading. That was great.

#28 Am now weighing in at 168 so I have eight pounds to go to a mini-goal of 160. When I hit 150, that will be the goal of losing 30 pounds from my ultimate high of 180. (Well, if I'm totally truthful, I hit the ultimate high of 185, but I wasn't there for long. That number got me to do something about it!) Still not finding time to be active too much during the week, but not eating after dinner except on Monday or Sunday night, whenever we have treats for Family Home Evening, and that really is helping a lot. Also, I'm not eating seconds at dinner at all and that has been huge. Every day I do crunches (only about 8 at once) and pushups and squats. I know that combination of things is helping me keep the weight coming off slowly, but consistently.

#29 Got bathtub cleaned out a little bit (it's storage right now because the piping needs to be fixed in there). I know we won't move forward on this project if it's stacked high with boxes! Matt drew a little picture of an idea he had how to take care of things in there. LOVE his idea of the shower with the entrance on the side instead of in the front by the toilet. Nice.

#42 Cyd Charisse died today. I was going to watch Brigadoon tonight, but am blogging instead and then hitting the pillow (since I already read!!). But that's not on my list because I've seen that a bazillion times. But now Bandwagon is on my list. Have to rent it or check the library.
...
Love the internet. Just googled Cyd and found out Turner Classic Movies is devoting June 27th to her -- Bandwagon, Silk Stockings and Singin' in the Rain.

Day Four

2008-06-13T23:00:00.000-07:00

#1 - I am reading everyday, but won't list it every day.

#90 I sat and looked at my shelves today in the bedroom. I created a list of the 11 babysteps I think it will take to actually consider those shelves "de-cluttered". I actually found myself excited about the possibility of it looking nice now, looking forward to starting, instead of dreading it. Yippee!

Day Three

2008-06-12T22:25:00.000-07:00

How exciting is this?? I had updates on each day in my dell, but am going to combine them in one. (I don't have to be completely anal about this...)

#1 finished Genesis (June 11 -- yeah, I started before Day One, but we're carrying on...)

#89 located all the notebooks and folders - a great babystep (June 11)

#93 (this is the best part)
1. June 10, 2008 Temple sessions for Mary Elizabeth Kyle (my great-great-grandma) (BCIE)
2. June 10, 2008 10 baptisms
3. June 10, 2008 temple session for Maria Mersedes (temple name, E)

and then TODAY, June 12
#87 put all this on BLOGGER! Check that completed!!

June 2, 2008 Almost ready!

2008-06-12T22:02:00.000-07:00

It's a week away -- my day! I'm so excited. I do have to go back and change up my list a little bit. I have many trips and things that aren't just a stretch time-wise, but money-wise. One of our family goals is to see ourselves out of debt and that will happen with all but the house, the car and the student loan by December of 2009 as long as we stay on track. So I want to change out a few of my trips and replace them with other things. I like someone else's idea of having about 10 alternative goals for life happening and not being able to do something for one reason or another. So I am off to update my list for the last time.

I have been making scripture reading a real part of my day (not just a cursory chapter to check off my list) in the last few months, so that it has become a wonderful habit that I look forward to and rarely miss anymore. That will help me to get through the Bible (#1) as planned. But I've also discovered that I have this deep love for the Book of Mormon (okay, actually I already KNEW that, but didn't realize how much I'd miss reading THAT if I was ONLY reading the Old Testament... ) so I have to figure TWO times into my day to read so I can read from both.

Had a hard time coming up with the old classic movies list I want to see... and have discovered without a specific time to sit and watch movies (which we were trying to get away from over finals time for the kids) that I don't crochet at all! There is a lot of crocheting on my list and quite the list of movies, too, so they will go hand in hand.

I'm sure my list of books is much too long. Count of Monte Cristo and Book of Mormon in French will be quite an undertaking on their own, and then I have the entire list of Newbery! I think I will mark it to 10 for this go-round.

My kids are all excited for my Harry Potter movie-thon when #7 comes out.

Oh joy. And now that I re-read my list of traveling... they are all in Arizona except for San Diego, Disneyland and the beach -- and that's one trip anyway. Can't do Disneyland without hitting the beach and vice versa! And Matt and I are planning on San Diego for our 20th anniversary next year, so I think we'll make it all happen anyway! What a lovely realization!

I just love my list!

3rd Grade Booklist (Pima Tucson Library)

2008-06-12T22:01:00.000-07:00

Amber Brown is Not a Crayon by Paula Danziger

Boys Start the War by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Cam Jansen Mysteries (series) by David Adler

Gloria's Way by Anne Cameron

Gooseberry Park by Cynthia Rylant

Just Like Mike by Gail Herman

Little Wolf's Book of Badness by Ian Whybrow

Marvin Redpost: Kidnapped at Birth? by Louis Sachar

Owen Foote, Super Spy by Stephanie Green

Paddington at Large by Michael Bond

Ramona Quimby by Beverly Cleary

Sarah Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

Secrets of Droon by Tony Abbot

Soccer Cats by Matt Christopher

Summer Reading is Killing Me by Jon Scieska

4th Grade Booklist (Pima Tucson Library)

2008-06-12T22:00:00.000-07:00

Any Small Goodness: A Novel of the Barrio by Tony Johnston

Babe and Me: A Baseball Card Adventure by Dan Gutman

Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

Bunnicula by James Howe

Dead Letter by Betsy Cromer Byars

I Was a Rat! by Philip Pullman

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

Stuart Little by E.B. White

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume

Time for Andrew by Mary Downing Hahn

Van Gogh Cafe by Cynthia Rylant

White Water by P.J. Petersen

You're a Brave Man, Julius Zimmerman by Claudia Mills

5th grade Booklist (from Pima Tucson Library)

2008-06-12T21:57:00.001-07:00

Adaline Falling Star by Mary Pope Osborne

Amber Cat by Hilary McKay

Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

Jennifer Murdley's Todd by Bruce Coville

Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson

Loser by Jerry Spinelli

My Louisiana Sky by Kimberly Willis Hold

Nory Ryan's Song by Patricia Reilly Giff

Redwall by Brian Jacques

Rolls by Polly Horvath

Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief by Wendelin Van Draanen

Skateboard Renegade by Matt Christopher

True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

Twin in the Tavern by Barbara Wallace

6th grade Booklist (from Pima Tucson Library)

2008-06-12T21:56:00.000-07:00

All Alone in the Universe by Lynne Rae Perkins

Beauty: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley

Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander

Cay by Theodore Taylor

Downriver by Will Hobbs

Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan

Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen

Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer

Lord of the Deep by Graham Salisbury

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World by Jennifer Armstrong

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle

Year Down Under by Richard Peck

Middle School booklist (from Saint Stephen's)

2008-06-12T21:55:00.000-07:00

Adrift: 76 Days Lost at Sea by Steven Callahan

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Alive by Piers Paul Read

All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot

As Far As the Eye Can See by David Brill

Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J Gaines

Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman

Beardance by Will Hobbs

Big Wave by Pearl Buck

Brian's Song by William Blinn

Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender

Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling

Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas

Cry of the Crow by Jean Craighead George

Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Downriver by Will Hobbs

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Durango Street by Frank Bonham

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Far North by Will Hobbs

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Gathering of Days by Joan W. Blos

Gentlehands by M.W. Kerr

Ghosts of Mercy Manor by Betty Ren Wright

Giver by Lois Lowry

Going Solo by Roal Dahl

Good Earth by Pearl Buck

Grey King by Susan Cooper

Here's to You, Rachel Robinson by Judy Blume

Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

I am the Cheese by Robert Cormier

I. Robot by Issac Asimov

Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff

My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Old Yeller by Fred Gipson

Once and Future King by T.H. White

Out of Nowhere by Ouida Sebestyn

Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Pigman by Paul Zindel

Pinballs by Betsy Byars

Red Pony by John Steinbeck

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Rumblefish by S.E. Hinton

Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell

Story of My Life by Helen Keller

Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene

Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars

Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Burroughs

Treasure Island by Robert L Stevenson

Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Dana

Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss

War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

White Fang by Jack London

Words by Heart by Ouida Sebestyn

Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle

Yearling by Katherine Rawlings

Judy Garland Movies

2008-06-12T21:16:00.000-07:00

Pigskin Parade	20th Century-Fox, 1936 [as Sairy Dodd]
Broadway Melody of 1938	MGM, 1937 [as Betty Clayton]
Thoroughbreds Don't Cry	MGM, 1937 [as Cricket West]
Everybody Sing	MGM, 1938 [as Judy Bellaire]
~~Love Finds Andy Hardy~~	MGM, 1938 [as Betsy Booth]
~~Listen, Darling~~	MGM, 1938 [as Pinkie Wingate]
~~The Wizard of Oz~~	MGM, 1939 [as Dorothy Gale] AA
Babes in Arms	MGM, 1939 [as Patsy Barton]
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante	MGM, 1940 [as Betsy Booth]
~~Strike Up the Band~~	MGM, 1940 [as Mary Holden]
Little Nellie Kelly	MGM, 1940 [as Nellie Kelly and Little Nellie Kelly]
Ziegfeld Girl	MGM, 1941 [as Susan Gallagher]
Life Begins for Andy Hardy	MGM, 1941 [as Betsy Booth]
Babes on Broadway	MGM, 1941 [as Penny Morris]
~~For Me and My Gal~~	MGM, 1942 [as Jo Hayden]
Presenting Lily Mars	MGM, 1943 [as Lily Mars]
~~Girl Crazy~~	MGM, 1943 [as Ginger Gray]
Thousands Cheer	MGM, 1943 [as Herself]
~~Meet Me in St. Louis~~	MGM, 1944 [as Esther Smith]
The Clock	MGM, 1945 [as Alice Mayberry]
~~The Harvey Girls~~	MGM, 1946 [as Susan Bradley]
Ziegfeld Follies of 1946	MGM, 1946 [as "The Star"]
Till the Clouds Roll By	MGM, 1946 [as Marilyn Miller]
~~The Pirate~~	MGM, 1948 [as Manuela Alva]
~~Easter Parade~~	MGM, 1948 [as Hannah Brown]
Words and Music	MGM, 1948 [as Herself]
In the Good Old Summertime	MGM, 1949 [as Veronica Fisher]
Summer Stock	MGM, 1950 [as Jane Falbury]
~~A Star Is Born~~	Warner Bros, 1954 [as Esther Blodgett] AAN
Pepe	Columbia, 1960 [voice only]
Judgment at Nuremberg	United Artists, 1961 [as Irene Hoffman] AAN
Gay Purr-ee	UPA / Warner Bros, 1963 [as voice of Mewsette]
A Child Is Waiting	United Artists, 1963 [as Jean Hansen]
I Could Go On Singing	Barbican / United Artists, 1963 [as Jenny Bowman]

Caldecott Winners

2008-06-12T21:10:00.000-07:00

Red means I have READ it!!

2008: The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic)

2007: Flotsam by David Wiesner (Clarion)

2006: The Hello, Goodbye Window Illustrated by Chris Raschka, written by Norton Juster (Michael di Capua/Hyperion)

2005: Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollinsPublishers)

2004: The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein (Roaring Brook Press/Millbrook Press)

2003: My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann (Roaring Brook Press/Millbrook Press)

2002: The Three Pigs by David Wiesner (Clarion/Houghton Mifflin)

2001: So You Want to Be President? Illustrated by David Small; text by Judith St. George (Philomel Books)

2000: Joseph Had a Little Overcoat Simms Taback (Viking)

1999: Snowflake Bentley, Illustrated by Mary Azarian; text by Jacqueline Briggs Martin (Houghton)

1998: Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky (Dutton)

1997: Golem by David Wisniewski (Clarion)

1996: Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann (Putnam)

1995: Smoky Night, illustrated by David Diaz; text: Eve Bunting (Harcourt)

1994: Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say; text: edited by Walter Lorraine (Houghton)

1993: Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully (Putnam)

1992: Tuesday by David Wiesner (Clarion Books)

1991: Black and White by David Macaulay (Houghton)

1990: Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young (Philomel)

1989: Song and Dance Man, illustrated by Stephen Gammell; text: Karen Ackerman (Knopf)

1988: Owl Moon, illustrated by John Schoenherr; text: Jane Yolen (Philomel)

1987: Hey, Al, illustrated by Richard Egielski; text: Arthur Yorinks (Farrar)

1986: The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton)

1985: Saint George and the Dragon, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman; text: retold by Margaret Hodges (Little, Brown)

1984: The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot by Alice & Martin Provensen (Viking)

1983: Shadow, translated and illustrated by Marcia Brown; original text in French: Blaise Cendrars (Scribner)

1982: Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton)

1981: Fables by Arnold Lobel (Harper)

1980: Ox-Cart Man, illustrated by Barbara Cooney; text: Donald Hall (Viking)

1979: The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble (Bradbury)

1978: Noah's Ark by Peter Spier (Doubleday)

1977: Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon; text: Margaret Musgrove (Dial)

1976: Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon; text: retold by Verna Aardema (Dial)

1975: Arrow to the Sun by Gerald McDermott (Viking)

1974: Duffy and the Devil, illustrated by Margot Zemach; retold by Harve Zemach (Farrar)

1973: The Funny Little Woman, illustrated by Blair Lent; text: retold by Arlene Mosel (Dutton)

1972: One Fine Day, retold and illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian (Macmillan)

1971: A Story A Story, retold and illustrated by Gail E. Haley (Atheneum)

1970: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig (Windmill Books)

1969: The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, illustrated by Uri Shulevitz; text: retold by Arthur Ransome (Farrar)

1968: Drummer Hoff, illustrated by Ed Emberley; text: adapted by Barbara Emberley (Prentice-Hall)

1967: Sam, Bangs & Moonshine by Evaline Ness (Holt)

1966: Always Room for One More, illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian; text: Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. [Leclair Alger] (Holt)

1965: May I Bring a Friend? illustrated by Beni Montresor; text: Beatrice Schenk de Regniers (Atheneum)

1964: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (Harper)

1963: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats (Viking)

1962: Once a Mouse, retold and illustrated by Marcia Brown (Scribner)

1961: Baboushka and the Three Kings, illustrated by Nicolas Sidjakov; text: Ruth Robbins (Parnassus)

1960: Nine Days to Christmas, illustrated by Marie Hall Ets; text: Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida (Viking)

1959: Chanticleer and the Fox, illustrated by Barbara Cooney; text: adapted from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Barbara Cooney (Crowell)

1958: Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey (Viking)

1957: A Tree Is Nice, illustrated by Marc Simont; text: Janice Udry (Harper)

1956: Frog Went A-Courtin', illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky; text: retold by John Langstaff) (Harcourt)

1955: Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, illustrated by Marcia Brown; text: translated from Charles Perrault by Marcia Brown (Scribner)

1954: Madeline's Rescue by Ludwig Bemelmans (Viking)

1953: The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward (Houghton)

1952: Finders Keepers, illustrated by Nicolas, pseud. (Nicholas Mordvinoff); text: Will, pseud. [William Lipkind] (Harcourt)

1951: The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous (Scribner)

1950: Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi (Scribner)

1949: The Big Snow by Berta & Elmer Hader (Macmillan)

1948: White Snow, Bright Snow, illustrated by Roger Duvoisin; text: Alvin Tresselt (Lothrop)

1947: The Little Island, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard; text: Golden MacDonald, pseud. [Margaret Wise Brown] (Doubleday)

1946: The Rooster Crows by Maud & Miska Petersham (Macmillan)

1945: Prayer for a Child, illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones; text: Rachel Field (Macmillan)

1944: Many Moons, illustrated by Louis Slobodkin; text: James Thurber (Harcourt)

1943: The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton (Houghton)

1942: Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey (Viking)

1941: They Were Strong and Good, by Robert Lawson (Viking)

1940: Abraham Lincoln by Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire (Doubleday)

1939: Mei Li by Thomas Handforth (Doubleday)

1938: Animals of the Bible, A Picture Book, illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop; text: selected by Helen Dean Fish (Lippincott)

Newbery Winners

2008-06-12T20:53:00.000-07:00

Must post my lists here so they are all accessible. The strike-through means I've read it. I'm using my DayZero as a starting point. Anything I read after this will include a date finished.

2010: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books)

2009: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, illus. by Dave McKean (HarperCollins)

2008: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz (Candlewick)

2007: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, illus. by Matt Phelan (Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson)

2006: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins)

2005: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)

~~2004: The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick Press)~~

2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi (Hyperion Books for Children)

2002: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park(Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)

2001: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck (Dial) - October 2010

2000: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)

~~1999: Holes by Louis Sachar (Frances Foster)~~

1998: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Scholastic)

~~1997: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg (Jean Karl/Atheneum)~~

1996: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (Clarion)

1995: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (HarperCollins)

1994: The Giver by Lois Lowry(Houghton)

1993: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant (Jackson/Orchard)

1992: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Atheneum)

~~1991: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (Little, Brown)~~

1990: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (Houghton)

1989: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman (Harper)

1988: Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman (Clarion)

~~1987: The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman (Greenwillow)~~

~~1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (Harper)~~

1985: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley (Greenwillow)

~~1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)~~

1983: Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum)

1982: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard (Harcourt)

~~1981: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)~~

1980: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos (Scribner)

~~1979: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (Dutton)~~

~~1978: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)~~

1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial)

1976: The Grey King by Susan Cooper (McElderry/Atheneum)

1975: M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan)

1974: The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox (Bradbury)

1973: Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (Harper)

1972: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (Atheneum)

~~1971: Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars (Viking)~~ April 2008

~~1970: Sounder by William H. Armstrong (Harper)~~

1969: The High King by Lloyd Alexander (Holt)

1968: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg (Atheneum)

1967: Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt (Follett)

1966: I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino (Farrar)

1965: Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska (Atheneum)

1964: It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville (Harper)

~~1963: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar)~~

1962: The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)

1961: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)

1960: Onion John by Joseph Krumgold (Crowell)

1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)

1958: Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith (Crowell)

1957: Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen (Harcourt)

1956: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham (Houghton)

1955: The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong (Harper)

1954: ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold (Crowell)

1953: Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark (Viking)

1952: Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)

1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates (Dutton)

1950: The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli (Doubleday)

1949: King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)

1948: The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois (Viking)

1947: Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (Viking) - July 2010

1946: Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski (Lippincott) - February 2010

~~1945: Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson (Viking)~~

~~1944: Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (Houghton)~~

1943: Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)

1942: The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds (Dodd)

1941: Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry (Macmillan)

1940: Daniel Boone by James Daugherty (Viking)

1939: Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright (Rinehart)

1938: The White Stag by Kate Seredy (Viking)

1937: Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer (Viking)

1936: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (Macmillan)

1935: Dobry by Monica Shannon (Viking)

1934: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown)

1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis (Winston)

1932: Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer (Longmans)

1931: The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth (Macmillan)

1930: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field (Macmillan)

1929: The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly (Macmillan)

1928: Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji (Dutton)

1927: Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James (Scribner)

1926: Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman (Dutton)

1925: Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger (Doubleday)

1924: The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes (Little, Brown)

1923: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (Stokes)

1922: The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon (Liveright)

101 things in 1001 days

2008-06-12T12:47:00.000-07:00

** means it's completed

1. read Bible straight through
Genesis - June 11, 2008 ...was it cheating to start before my day one? Oh well.
Exodus - June 20, 2008
Leviticus - July 4, 2008
Numbers - July 27, 2008
Deuteronomy - August-ish, 2008
Joshua - September 22, 2008
Judges - Oct 18, 2008
Ruth - Oct 29, 2008
1 Samuel - January 2009
2 Samuel - May 2009
1 Kings - May 2010 (Okay, a year? Really? That's pretty pathetic...)
2 Kings - Oct 2010

**2. empty birthday box
September 21, 2009 Woo-hoo!

**3. hike Sabino Canyon
October 23, 2010 with Maggie and Tanner

4. River walk all day
March 2010 - I found the beginning west end of the walk and walked 6.5 miles of it... I've walked all the areas of the walk at one time or another now. I'm about ready to do the whole thing one way!

5. take ballet or jazz class again

6. earn $100 on Helium
Let's give this a little timeline... joined Helium on Feb 27, 2007
As of July 15, 2008, I have earned a whopping $4.15
GO ME!
Feb 2009 - $4.52
May 2009 - $5.10
I've been rating, now I need to WRITE!
July 2009 - $5.45
Found two topics to write on...
Sept 2009 - $6.17
I have to keep rating to keep my stars or I'm NEVER going to get there!!
Nov 2009 - $6.88

7. read Count of Monte Cristo
5-6-09 got the book down...
11-29-09 regular reading going on...

8. read Book of Mormon in French
9-29-09 Got it out and read several verses during FHE

9. write to all of Marion's descendants
writing regularly to Aunt Marion!

10. organize the loose papers and newsletters pertaining to our extended family history

11. make my own CD

**12. make Ezekiel bread
Does it count that I have the recipe?
August 2010 - Yummy and delicious! And not difficult at all once you buy all the ingredients. Will definitely make it again and again.

13. submit a hymn to Ensign

14. make a baby book for Tanner

15. finish Tanner's sampler

**16. go to Georgia for Christmas
Yippee Skippee we are making plans!
Nov 12 - making hotel reservations!!
December 30, 2008 - Mission accomplished

17. organize recipes (or have the guts to ditch them)
11-29-09 working on getting fave recipes out of old cookbooks, passing on cookbooks

**18. sing in Handel's Messiah
December 19, 2010 at the North Stake Center, Community Sing-Along

19. grow my own salad
June 11, 2009 - got the basil plants going in a pot!
July 17, 2009 - two basil plants died... this'll have to wait for next summer

**20. learn to make Irene's tortillas
Sept 21, 2009 - getting scheduled on Young Women's calendar
Oct 2009 - Ended up being taught by Tammy Butler, but mm-mm-mm!

**21. learn to make Amy's jam
Aug 8, 2009 -- Yay! Enrichment Day featuring Amy's prickly pear jam!

**22. pay off all consumer debt (not including house or student loan)
Nov 1, 2008 - Under the $10,000 mark!
Jan 31, 2009 - Under $8000
May 6, 2009 - Just over $6000 left
July 17, 2009 - UNDER $5000 woo-hoo!
Aug 14, 2009 - Only 3 payments left!!
Nov 23, 2009 - ALL DONE! That debt is GONE GONE GONE!!

**23. Tasmin's afghan
November 11, 2008... ahh... working on it again after the flood
May 5, 2009 - over half way!
Nov 29, 2009 - just the purple bottom and edging left
Feb 4, 2010 - 30 rows to go!
March 2010 - She loves it!!

24. Jason's afghan
San Diego Chargers - Matt needs to create my pattern
June 2010 - 15 rows in...
Sept 2010 - working backwards, have the S and the R finished
December 2010 - half way there!

**25. Levi's afghan
1/16th finished :-)
1/8th finished October 5, 2008
3/16th finished November 8, 2008
1/2 way there Feb 10, 2009
May 5, 2009 decided I need 20 squares instead of 16. :)
17 squares finished - June 1, 2009
July 20, 2009 - now i need 25 instead of 20. Good grief...
Sept 21, 2009 - three squares left, then I can put it together!
Sept 30, 2009 - half a square to go...
Oct 2009 - edged, finished... DELIVERED!

**26. Nicole's afghan
May 2010 - finis!

**27. Aaron's afghan
October 23, 2010 - This was originally my afghan that I wanted to finish, but Aaron went into boot camp and so I made one for him for his leave instead.

28. lose 30 pounds
Woo-hoo! Lost 20 pounds July 7, 2008
Humph. At the "lost 15 pounds" mark Oct 6, 2008
Oh yeah, baby! Back to "lost 20 pounds" Nov 12, 2008
May 2, 2009 - ummm.... sprained foot

**29. remodel kids' bathroom
July 17, 2009 - Matt priced it all out at Lowe's
July 28, 2009 - shower finished!! I get to go buy shower curtain and rug tomorrow!!
Aug 8, 2009 - How beautiful!

**30. paint the outside of the house
June 1, 2009 - the KIDS are doing this!! And it looks fabulous! Even T is helping!

**31. re-floor house (wood)
November 12, 2008 -- just the laundry room left to do!
December 31, 2008 -- Mission accomplished

**32. get my own laptop notebook
It's on my Christmas list :-)
2-13-09 As soon as they're in stock...
2-19-09 Ta-dah! And I just LOVE it!

**33. get a professional facial
Got a coupon!
Went to Rubs... that is just seven kinds of lovely right there, baby!

**34. go to Snowflake (or San Diego) with Matt
booked for Spring Break in San Diego!!!
March 27 - April 2, 2010 Ah... Sea World, San Diego Zoo and two sessions in the San Diego Temple!

**35. take family to Disneyland
Disneyworld Christmas 2008

**36. take family to beach
Disneyworld beach Christmas 2008
...and again La Jolla Cove Spring Break 2010 -- sweet!

37. make a temple picture book

38. put wood blinds in front room
waiting...
found style I want and where I want to order from

39. go to the gym 6x in one week

40. craigslist excess craft stuff (crochet, scrapbk, stamps) or USE it up with the kids!
May 2, 2009 - sold crochet stuff

41. watch 10 Judy Garland movies I've never seen
1. Thousands Cheer (Kelley) Oct 28, 2008

42. watch 10 other movies I've never seen (same era)
1. Bandwagon (Cyd)
2. Silk Stockings (Cyd) (Feb 2009)
3. Never Wave at a WAC (Russell) (Oct 2008)
4. Roberta (Fred & Ginger)
5. Swing Time (Fred & Ginger) (March 2009)
6. Bathing Beauty (Esther Williams) (Jan 2009)

**43. de-clutter 100 things in one week (paper doesn't count but mags do)
Yeah, baby! This got accomplished the week we moved BACK into the house after the flood... September 27, 2008

**44. Harry Potter movie-thon (all 7)
Thanksgiving Day, 2010. Hmph. I've seen all seven -- then they decided to make #7 into TWO movies, with #8 not due within my time frame. Mission accomplished. And #7 wasn't even that good.

45. grow an herb garden

46. watch all prophet DVDs
Joseph Smith July 1, 2008
Brigham Young March 2010
John Taylor April 2010
Wilford Woodruff April 2010
Lorenzo Snow Sept 2010

47. write a living will

48. complete emergency control journal

49. make family favorites cookbook for kids
July 17, 2009 - started with a list from the aunts!

50. download family albums to thumbdrives

51. make 72 hour kits
Aug 8, 2009 -- started collecting backpacks from school sales

**52. make list of OCRs to collect
42nd Street
Annie
Annie Get Your Gun
Anything Goes
Boyfriend
Brigadoon
Camelot
Cats
Chess
Cinderella (Julie Andrews)
Damn Yankees
Fantastiks
Fiddler on the Roof
Geppetto (Disney)
Guys & Dolls
Gypsy
Hello Dolly
Into the Woods (but I have this one)
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
King & I
Kiss Me Kate
Les Miserables
Little Shop of Horrors
Mame
Man of La Mancha
Mary Poppins
Music Man (Disney)
My Fair Lady
Oliver
On the Town
Once Upon a Mattress
Phantom of the Opera
Pippin
Sound of Music
South Pacific
Starlight Express
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Unsinkable Molly Brown
Wicked

**53. spend a day downtown with kids
Took Avery, Maggie and Tanner to see Ringling Brothers Circus and had two hours to kill downtown. Ate at Subway, played in the Gazebo, went walking. Oh, and then there was the circus!! (June 2010)

54. play golf (not mini)

55. have Buckners over for dinner
waiting...

56. visit Grand Canyon

57. visit Meteor Crater

58. ride a horse

59. play all the hymns (however badly)

60. sing thru Children's songbook

**61. get a digital scale
January 2, 2010
This was an early birthday present for Tasmin, even though it benefits all of us. There is a cute competition going on between Avery and Tasmin. They both want to lose 12 pounds and they are racing to see who can accomplish it first. Winner takes the other to the movies.

62. memorize a George Winston piece

63. organize Taylor's scout badges

64. organize Avery's scout badges

65. memorize The Living Christ

66. memorize Book of Mormon scriptures mastery

67. do OAMC (once-a-month cooking)

68. re-read Don Quixote

**69. find Christine Moody
gotta love Facebook!

70. find Rani Russell

71. serve in a soup kitchen
Jan 3, 2010 - collected info from several places, now we need to choose and set a date!

72. go to NAU Jazz festival
March 2010 -- told Jordan Saul I want to chaperone in 2011

**73. take Matt to Ice Cat Hockey
December 2009
Actually, he went with the boys and Maggie. They had a ball, and I don't really have a personal desire to go, I just knew HE'D love it, so I'm glad he went with the kids.

**74. cloud watch with Maggie and Tanner and eat ice cream
June 30, 2009 Monsoon season makes the best lightning shows!

**75. meet a new neighbor
Met LOTS walking the neighborhood for Prop 102

76. read 10 Newbery winners
1. Princess Academy (Shannon Hale) October 5, 2008
2. Strawberry Girl (Lois Lenski) February 2010
3. Miss Hickory (Carolyn Sherwin Bailey) July 2010
4. A Year Down Yonder (Richard Peck) October 2010

77. read 20 Caldecot winners
1. "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" Feb 2009

78. sleep in the yard

79. re-learn the rubik's cube

80. go to the Botanical Gardens @ butterfly time
I just saw the billboard that NOVEMBER is the time! But this year we're saving money for Georgia, so it will have to be 2009

81. go to the Renaissance festival (or the planetarium)

82. go roller skating

83. DDR marathon (at least an evening)

84. give apples & cold water to homeless for a summer (carry cooler in car)

**85. read at school Love of Reading week
Feb 11, 2010 - Read "My Monster Mama Loves Me" and "Apple Picking Day" in Tanner's kindergarten class.

86. do the set a date program

**87. Learn how to do my own blog or website
June 12, 2008 Ta-dah!

88. get all my journals in one place (thumbdrive)
Typing up on-paper-only college journal.

**89. ditch my college essays
June 11, 2008: located all the folders and notebooks
Jan 2009 - all gone to the recycle center!

90. de-clutter bedroom shelves
June 27, 2008: Have a list of babysteps
December 28, 2010: half way there!

91. Sedona with family

**92. take a friend to the Easter pageant
April 10, 2009 took Mel and Liz and their kids

**93. 36 temple sessions
1. June 10, 2008 Mary Elizabeth Kyle BCIE

2. June 10, 2008 10 baptisms

3. June 10, 2008 Maria Mersedes (temple name, E)

4. July 5, 2008 Angelina Frasate (temple name, E)
The flood made us miss August... should've planned ahead.

5. September 19, 2008 Barbara Yantis (E)

6. October 18, 2008 Heather Doucet (live sealing)

7. Matt is sure we went to the temple...

8. ...twice in January. I'm sure the name is in my dell. :-(

9. Feb 27, 2009 Elizabeth Foster (E) (with Mel and Liz)

10. Mar 28, 2009 sealing session, family names and temple names
Went to the temple for Easter pageant with the Youth, and Easter pageant with family, but not to do a session.

11. May 29, 2009 endowment session, our name

12. June 10, 2009 Anna Margaretha BCIE

13. June 10, 2009 initiatory session

14. June 10, 2009 Sadie Hardison (temple name, E)

15. June 13, 2009 family sealings - kids all in Visitor's Center :) :) :)

16. June 26, 2009 family sealings - wow, third time in one month

17. July 11, 2009 baptisms with youth

18. July 25, 2009 endowment session, temple name - Rog, Rose and Debbie

19. Aug 21, 2009 family sealings

20. Sept 19, 2009 last-minute youth trip

21. Sept 25, 2009 endowment session with ADAM CLARIDGE, pre-mission!

22. Oct 16, 2009 endowment session, temple name (need to do initiatories!)

23. Nov 11, 2009 initiatories

24. Nov 20, 2009 Rachel Coleman

25. Jan 30, 2010 Rachel Johnson

26. March 11, 2010

27. March 31, 2010 - San Diego Temple Louella J Foster (E)

28. April 23, 2010 - Gila Valley Open House with our whole little family minus
Tasmin. :(

29. May 1, 2010 - endowment session with Nathan Harbison

30. May 21, 2010 - Mesa Temple with our whole little family but Taylor who was home sick :( Tas took kids to visitor's center while Avery, Matt and I did baptisms.

31. May 23, 2010 - Gila Valley Temple Dedication with our whole little family minus Tanner :( Are we seeing a trend that needs breaking here?

32.June 2010 - I know I got to go in June, but I didn't get to go on my regular June 10th anniversary where I spend all day in the temple doing one sister's work all the way through.

33. July 2010 - Ward temple trip day -- went with the Doucets.

34. August 11, 2010 - I just packed up one day and went. All by myself. Needed to be there, at the temple.

35. August 14, 2010 - with Tasmin and Matt in the baptistry.

36.August 20, 2010 - Temple trip with Matt's brothers and sisters, and then Five Guys for dinner. Awesome night. And that makes three times in August alone. Wow did that feel great.

**94. 20 dates with Tasmin
1. June 26, 2008 dying hair, doing nails
2. Summer 2008 (when was that?) Girls' night with Brewers - Nim's Island
3. Fall 2008 Olive Garden dessert
4. June 1, 2009 Enchanted and eegee's Ranch fries
5. July 11, 2009 - WICKED and Cafe Rio
6. July 29, 2009 - Chipotle with Iesha and Misty
7. Aug 14, 2009 - Chipotle with Julie Holladay and Sierra
8. Sept 18, 2009 - dying hair, watching Charly. Tas looks great red!
9. Nov 19, 2009 - Runaway Bride and Eegees fries... mmm!
10. I give up counting... Just about every Tuesday night Tasmin and I chat and watch movies and sometimes even get food...

I know there were more in here than that... darn PDA crash!

**95. 20 dates with Taylor
1. Sept 30, 2008 Open House, Honor Choir Concert, dinner (Jack!)
2. Aug 11, 2009 "Kate and Leopold" at home
3. Aug 23, 2009 Youth Standards Fireside & Settlers
4. Sept 29, 2009 Getting ready for Homecoming, running errands and eating M&Ms
5. And I give up counting here... Taylor and I have our best conversations traveling in the car to concerts, meets and working at the Hardys.

**96. 20 dates with Avery
1. when did we go to Applebees?
2. Aug 4, 2009 - Shoe shopping and cookies @ Foothills Mall
3. Aug 23, 2009 - Youth Standards Fireside & Settlers
4. Nov 2009 - Cold Snap
5. Feb 4, 2010 - Borders
6. June 4, 2010 - Clash of the Titans

**97. 20 dates with Maggie
1. June 26, 2008 doing nails
2. July 5, 2008 @ work with me, Extreme Pita for lunch
3. July 23, 2008 @ work with me all day, Paradise Cafe for lunch, exploring quarters
4. Oct 16, 2008 High School Musical on Ice (with Tanner & Lexi Holladay)
5. Nov 3, 2008 clothes shopping
6. Feb 2009 - playing at the mall
7. Feb 21, 2009 - Wendy's frostees and shopping
8. March 20, 2009 - hiking Honey Bee Canyon on school field trip
9. June 19, 2009 - makeovers and Picture/Picture
10. July 25, 2009 - clothes shopping and hot dogs at Sunflower
11. Sept 19, 2009 - Build a Bear workshop
12. Nov 2009 - Cold Snap
13. Nov 21, 2009 - Double date: Dad and Maggie, Mom and Tanner @ Jason's Deli
14. Feb 6, 2010 - Repeat at Jason's Deli
15. Jason's Deli closed in Tucson permanently. Can life even go on?

**98. 20 dates with Tanner
1. August 8, 2008 @ work with me, homemade lunch together
2. Oct 16, 2008 High School Musical on Ice (with Maggie & Lexi Holladay)
3. Jan 2009 - park day
4. Feb 2009 - playing at the mall
5. Mar 27, 2009 - hiking Santa Cruz River Park and picnic
6. Jun 6, 2009 - hiking Thunderbird Trail
7. Nov 21, 2009 - Double date: Dad and Maggie, Mom and Tanner @ Jason's Deli
8. Feb 6, 2010 - Jason's Deli again, because they loved it so much the first time!
9. So many nights at the park... bball, football, tag on the playground (do we remember Mom wiping out at the bottom of the slide?!) and me walking while Tanner lapped me and giggled on his bike!

99. watch sunrise with Matt

100. do that secret gift for Matt (I can write about it once it's done!)

**101. fix playlists on Nano (EFY & the perfect workout)
Did better than the perfect workout. I have a playlist called "Joy". All the songs that lift my spirits, make me smile and I CAN'T listen to that music without feeling GOOD.