100 LITTLE THINGS: ROUND THREE
extra challenge: document with photos this time around
CURRENT TOTAL: 32/100
1. Read 35 books (32/35): The Cuckoo’s Calling, The Gap of Time, Father Elijah, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, The Book of Speculation, Flight Behavior, The Quality of Silence, This Is Where You Belong, The Birth Order Book, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, The Awakening of Miss Prim, Gift from the Sea, The Bad Beginning, Yes, Chef: A Memoir, The Little Book of Hygge, The Summer Before the War, Elizabeth is Missing, Different, Blast to the Past: Washington’s War, The Appalling Strangeness of the Mercy of God: The Story of Ruth Pakaluk, Necessary Lies, Black Friday, The Precious One, The Wife, the Maid and the Mistress, Food: A Love Story, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend, Upstairs at the White House, The Reptile Room, The Wide Window, The Miserable Mill, The Austere Academy, Real Learning: Education in the Heart of the Home
2. Read An Omnivore’s Dilemma
3. Read Kristin Lavransdadder
4. Read The Birth Order Book (January 2017)
5. Leave a positive, thoughtful comment on 50 blog posts (November 2016)
6. Blog at least twice a week regularly (6/12 months)
7. Host a “My Favorite Things” giveaway on my birthday
8. Rearrange books in the bookcases by theme/genre (August 2016)
9. Financially support a family raising money for an adoption (Jonathan and Amanda Teixeira, September 2016)
10. Send someone flowers, just because (November 2016, using The Bouqs)
11. Send five baby gifts, for the first baby or the fifth! (2/5)
12. Send 15 cards, just because (11/15)
13. Make 5 birthday boxes for the food pantry (March 2017)
14. Send a care package to a college student (September 2016)
15. Thank our garbage men
16. Thank our mailman
17. Meet someone new (July 2017)
18. Make a rosary
19. Pray 5 novenas: St Thomas Aquinas, St. Therese of the Child Jesus, St. Joseph (x2!), Our Lady of Fatima
20. Learn about a new saint (Blessed Margaret of Castello, September 2016)
21. Read an encyclical
22. Complete a Bible study
23. Replace all light switch covers to one design
24. Add another house plant
25. Find a dresser to refurbish for the new baby (October 2016)
26. Install new kitchen lighting
27. Repaint the kitchen table
28. Make roman shades for my office
29. Finish my office desk project
30. Redo the back patio
31. Clean the microfiber couch
32. Grow tomatoes
33. Grow cucumbers
34. Grow spinach
35. Buy containers for flowers on the front porch
36. Add bamboo shades to the kitchen and living room
37. Have the carpets professionally cleaned (April 2017)
38. Power wash the back porch
39. Buy a hummingbird feeder
40. Cook through the “30 Recipes You Should Know By Age 30” list (3/30)
41. Sign up for a small farm’s CSA program (February 2017)
42. Make 10 different pies (2/10): Strawberry Pie -August 2016, Apple Pie -October 2016
43. Make popsicles (August 2016)
44. Go strawberry picking
45. Go apple picking
46. Make no churn ice cream
47. Bake 5 new hot breakfasts
48. Do a green smoothie challenge (February 2017)
49. Make homemade jam
50. Bake doughnuts from scratch
51. Try a new vegetable
52. Watch 15 documentaries: Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead 2, Touch the Wall, The Perfect Human Diet, Fearless, Every Second Counts: The Story of the 2008 CrossFit Games, The Beginning of Life, American Experience: Murder of a President, Without Charity, My Son the JIhadi, Amanda Knox, Guadalupe, Finding Traction, Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things, Finding Vivian Maier, The Barkley Marathons (completed December 2016)
53. Participate in Screen-Free Week
54. Make a dent on the movies on Common Sense Media’s “50 Movies Every Kid Should See before age 12” (at least 50%) (February 2017)
55. Create six memory boxes for the kids
56. Make silhouettes of the kids
57. Make 20 freezer meals before the baby comes (2/20): 2 bags of breakfast burritos
58. Refresh memory on infant CPR
59. Lose the baby weight (June 2017)
60. Complete a 30-day walking streak (at least 1 mile a day) (January 2017)
61. Run a 5k
62. Run a half marathon
63. Complete all three levels of T25
64. Double Big White Farmhouse’s sales from 2015 to 2016 (technically we hit a little over 90%, but close enough! December 2016)
65. Try a new marketing technique for Big White Farmhouse (Facebook Carousel Ads, October 2016)
66. Purchase vintage at a big fair
67. Hold a Big White Farmhouse pop-up shop
68. Grow BWF’s Instagram followers to 400+ (December 2016)
69. Finish a 12-day gift wrap idea series for BWF
70. Complete a 30-day no spending challenge (January 2017)
71. Pay off car debt (1/2 paid off)
72. Pay off remaining student loan debt
73. Schedule an eye exam
74. Buy new glasses
75. Clean my wedding ring
76. Take a bath
77. Finish our home first aid kit
78. Finish our emergency preparedness kit
79. Find a skin routine that works and stick with it (February 2017)
80. Make a quilt
81. Sew a throw pillow with pom-poms for Sophie’s bed
82. Hang something on the wall to display Sophie’s peg dolls
83. Complete an embroidery project
84. Buy new pajamas (September 2016, a gift from my aunt)
85. Create a postpartum wardrobe that makes me feel confident and not frumpy
86. Find new summer sandals
87. Find a new winter coat (November 2016)
88. Send out birth announcements (December 2016)
89. Write three love letters to Mark
90. Make salt dough ornaments (December 2016)
91. Potty train TJ
92. Explore a new city (July 2017)
93. Try 5 new local restaurants: Fosters in August 2016, Jimbos in November 2016, Byblos in December 2016, China East in January 2017, Tony’s Pizza in April 2017)
94. Make a weaving
95. DIY a felt leaf wreath
96. Learn calligraphy
97. Buy 2 new board games to play as a family (Zingo in August 2016, Harry Potter Clue in November 2016)
98. Make DIY Geodes with the kids
99. Take the kids to see a movie in theaters (saw Pets, August 2016)
100. Paint something on a canvas