No.424: Intentions for the End of July

When I speak of home, I speak of the place where – in default of a better – those I love are gathered together; and if that place were a gypsy’s tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.

– Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

• order more work clothes for my oldest
• bake oatmeal raisin cookies
• catch up on snail mail correspondence
• work on my new 100 Little Things list (my seventh year!)
• completely finish the first six weeks of lesson plans
• start browsing around for a new couch
• get an estimate on Sophie’s bathroom tile replacement
• drop off donations at Goodwill (if it’s open and accepting)
• try to sell off the remaining Poshmark inventory – share my closet at least once daily
• give my hair another trim
• pull out the weeds in the brick walkway