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I’ve been participating with Jean over at Chit Chat with Jean to do an accomplishment list for the year and a word for the year. This is my first quarterly update. I wondered if I would be successful? I’d say I’m doing pretty fair so far.

My list for 2022 is:

• Do a Happy Homemaker Monday post each and every week. This keeps me more on track and organized about my home life. Doing Happy Homemaker Monday so extensively helps keep me on track as it summarizes the past week and lays out a fairly concise plan for this week. DONE
  
• Do 1-2 devotionals every day. DONE I’m working my way through 100 Days of Grace & Gratitude – A Devotional Journal
  
• Follow a nightly skincare regime – DONE
  
• Complete 4 quilts – at least 1 for each quarter. 1 Christmas quilt wall hanging done almost done, 2 batik table runners in opposing colors are done and but I’m still working on one more quilt.
  
• Finish indexing the recipes on my Food blog, Savory Kitchen Table. This is a serious work in progress that will probably take ALL year.
  
• Finish indexing the recipes on my Life blog, Chasing MY Life. When I merged my old blogspot blogs into this single blog it duplicated many things and added an “ALL” category that I am having to eliminate one by one so it’s taking a LONG time. This is a serious work in progress that will probably take ALL year.
  
• Make a better effort to reach out and connect with friends and family more regularly. This is a work in progress.
  
• Learn YOGA or Pilates or both! This is a work in progress.
  
• Take at least a 2 mile walk daily. DONE most days
  
• Continue to downsize and declutter EVERYTHING. This is a serious work in progress that will probably take ALL year.
  
• Clean out photo files that date back 13 years! I’m working on it, but it’s really hard.
  
• Create shutterfly photo albums for 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016. Yet to do 😀
  
• Go through scrap recipe tote and eliminate all the recipes I will never try – they’re just not worth saving. DONE
  
• Do more drawing and painting – at least one per month. I’m taking this bike and sunflower class this week and the others are a few I’m trying to replicate now.
  
• Focus on rewriting more recipes to work for only 2 with no leftovers. This is a work in progress, but doing well so far.
  
• Volunteer at least once a month for a community project. DONE TO DATE
  
• Do a date weekend once a month – exploring a new place we’ve never been before. I’d like to say we’ve been really good about this, but it’s only happened once so far this year 🙁
  
• Clean out old files and recycle or destroy old papers. This is an ongoing work in progress, but I’ve made good progress.
  
• Clean out craft cabinets and donate craft parts no longer needed. DONE
  
• Eat at least 1 piece of fruit daily. DONE
  
• Do at least 1 random act of kindness every time I leave the house. DONE
  
• Read 36 books. Hopefully it will be more, like double more, but I think this is a realistic goal since I’m halfway there. 18 so far 1) State of Grace by Marie Force, 2) Swamp Sweets by Jana DeLeon, 3) Beside Golden Irish Fields by Ava Miles, 4) What Child Is This by Rhys Bowen, 5) Women and Children First by Gill Paul, 6) Return to Sender by Jennifer Peel, 7) The Cape May Garden by Claudia Vance, 8) South of the Buttonwood Tree by Heather Webber, 9) A Home for Unloved Orphans by Rachel Wesson and 10) All My Loving by Marie Force 11) Wild Widows by Marie Force 12) Return to Sender by Jennifer Peel 13) In Name Only by Jennifer Peel 14) Flame & Fortune by Jana DeLeon 15) The Restaurant by Pamela Kelley 16) Here, There & Everywhere by Marie Force 17) Someone Like You by Marie Force 18) Beach House Romance by Cora Seton