“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks
INTENTIONS FOR THE END OF OCTOBER
- buy upholstery pins and finally finish the living room chair slipcover project
- purchase slippers for the kids who need them
- start collecting items to assemble Birthday Boxes for the food pantry
- buy a fabric shaver and try to save some of my older sweaters
- sew the button back on my wool coat
- condition the leather on my booties
- clean my indoor/outdoor rug
- try to take a decent family photo in our yard for Christmas cards
- make a soup
- get our oven fixed
- bake pumpkin chocolate chip cookies
- give P a haircut
- catch up on snail mail correspondence
- hang curtains in the little boys’ room
PREVIOUS INTENTIONS
If you’re reading on your phone or in a reader, be sure to click over to see what I checked off the list!
continue the 1,000 Item Declutter Challenge (reach 100 items)order daffodil bulbs(my boys even planted them as my birthday present!)figure out what we want to do for family photos- read a nature non-fiction book (I’ve started The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs)
finish buying birthday presents for Dand wrap- clean my indoor/outdoor rug
