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Round Six // August 2019 – July 2020
CURRENT TOTAL: 52/100
1. Buy a spice organizer (February 2020)
2. Find something to organize the potatoes in the pantry (changed to fridge, September 2019)
3. Find something to organize the onions in the pantry
4. Deep clean the oven
5. Clean the Dutch oven
6. Powerwash the siding (May 2020)
7. Clean the grout in the kitchen
8. Clean the grout in the master bathroom (August 2019)
9. Paint the second-floor shutters
10. Finish the front landscaping (April 2020)
11. Clean the carpets
12. Buy kitchen curtains
13. Get a hanging plant for the master bathroom (September 2019)
14. Hang a boxwood wreath
15. Find a slipcover for the living room chair (August 2019)
16. Organize the emergency closet (November 2019)
17. Make a framed chalkboard (June 2020)
18. Hang a hammock
19. Make my own laundry detergent
20. Mend a piece of clothing
21. Make a quilt
22. Complete a December Daily album (January 2020)
23. Make a photo album with our wedding photos
24. Knit a hat with a Knifty Knitter
25. Learn a new card game (December 2019)
26. Start a milk glass candlestick collection
27. Add another vintage globe to my collection (July 2020)
28. Buy a new couch
29. Find a free piano (we will take my parent’s once P is older, but bought a keyboard to use for now, December 2019)
30. Replace the American flag (September 2019)
31. Hang a porch swing
32. Plant ferns by the front door (May 2020)
33. Plant lemongrass for the back porch (May 2020)
34. Line the porch steps with potted plants
35. Plant bulbs in the fall (October 2019)
36. Name our farm
37. Hang a mason bee house (April 2020)
38. Build raised garden beds (March 2020)
39. Get chickens
40. Participate in a CSA
41. Buy a deep freezer (June 2020)
42. Invest in half a cow
43. Finish the little boys’ headboards
44. Have family photographs taken (decided to take them ourselves, October 2019)
45. Potty train P (May 2020)
46. Reach the halfway point in the Amerithon Challenge
47. Run a 5K with M
48. Run a 10K
49. Bake a pie (August 2019)
50. Make root beer floats (August 2019)
51. Get my sourdough starter going again (August 2019)
52. Go apple picking (September 2019)
53. Help place Christmas wreaths at Quantico National Cemetery
54. Take the kids to the beach
55. Watch the local Christmas parade (December 2019)
56. Visit the Virginia Safari Park
57. Make DIY geodes
58. Make homemade playdough (February 2020)
59. Get a haircut
60. Do 90 days of no sugar (derailed a bit at the end due to COVID-19, but close enough! April 2020)
61. Go to the eye doctor
62. Order new glasses
63. Get a yearly physical
64. Attend a holy hour at least three times
65. Pray a novena (October 2019)
66. Make a rosary
67. Finish the Into the Depths of Catholicism Reading Challenge
68. Learn how to make a cross from a palm branch
69. Roll beeswax Advent candles (December 2019)
70. Make three new kinds of Christmas cookies (December 2019)
71. Make pinnable graphics for my snail mail posts
72. Start a traveling book club
73. Add Christmas books to my Homeschool Resource page (added to my Bookshop page instead, May 2020)
74. Leave a thoughtful comment on 50 posts
75. Complete a full year of “extraordinary ordinary” posts
76. Start a Little Free Library
77. Send someone flowers (April 2020)
78. Donate food to the food pantry (November 2019)
79. Send Christmas cards (December 2019)
80. Support three etsy shops (Shady Nook Bee Farms in August 2019, The Bearded Bee Homestead in September 2019, Beeswax Candle Company in November 2019)
81. Support three Teachers Pay Teachers shops
82. Donate to the local pregnancy center (August 2019)
83. Donate tiny going home outfits to Grant’s Gifts (Giving Tuesday, December 2019)
84. Thank the mailman (December 2019)
85. Thank the trash guys (April 2020)
86. Thank the workers at the dump
87. Pay off the car (April 2020)
88. Pay off three student loans (August 2019, January 2020 and June 2020)
89. Read a nature-inspired nonfiction book
90. Read Where the Mountain Meets the Moon as a read aloud (October 2019)
91. Get to at least the halfway point in my 20th Century in Books challenge
92. Read something by Wendell Berry (July 2020)
93. Read There’s No Such Thing as Bad Weather (May 2020)
94. Read at least one picture book to the little ones a day
95. Read The 15:17 to Paris (August 2019)
96. Join a book club
97. Take a self defense course
98. Upgrade my Poshmark photography setup
99. Buy a steamer (August 2019)
100. Make $5,000 in sales