July/August Priorities and Goals

Our purpose for our Charming Girls Quilt Club is changing somewhat, and I like it! We are setting goals bi-monthly and adding some other goals or priorities in there. I like that because as much as I would love to sit at my sewing machine all day every day, I have to go to work every day, and with life's other obligations, quilting has to be put on the back burner sometimes. Our theme this month is Self-care, which I think for most women is a "learned skill".
For July and August I plan to :

• strip and paint 2 night stands and a dresser  done
• continue to work out 4-5 days a week- I get up at 5:30 a.m. to fit this in my day. done
• make 3 cards and one scrapbook page not done

• finish Quilt Along quilt done
• blog about a very special friend with MS and her new political activities to get a treatment called CCSVI allowed in Canada done
• put together a celebration for Neil's grad/birthday and our 25th anniversary  done
• keep up with the Jelly Roll Sampler and Mystery quilts that I am making done
• clean all our windows on the inside a (since they were cleaned on the outside it is much more apparent this job needs to be done!) done
• start making the King size quilt for our master bedroom done

Since we are basically empty nesters we are very good about dates, so I don't have that on my "to do" list.  We walk together all the time in the evenings and weekends, and go to on average about 3 baseball games/week in the summer. We watch movies, and TV together, and just generally enjoy spending as much time as possible together. I guess that is why we are celebrating 25 years of marriage....

I have a couple of funny stories about my quest for learning Self Care when the kids were little. More on that another time.